What’s Special about SDI Related Research?

Abstract

Four challenging areas for SDI related research are discussed in this paper. These are SDI diffusion, SDI evolution, data sharing in SDIs and the hierarchy of SDIs. What’s special about this kind of SDI related research, then, is the insights and understanding of the processes involved in SDI development that can be gained from examining critically with the help of conceptual frameworks and models that have been rigorously tested in other fields.