In January 2008, NSF sponsored a workshop on Building Virtual Organizations as part of its efforts to advance collaboration in research and education through cyberinfrastructure; information on the workshop presentations and webcasts has been available for some time at the web site at

(which I have shared in an earlier post to CNI-announce). The final report of the workshop, titled "Beyond Being There: A Bulueprint for Advancing the Design, Development and Evaluation of Virtual Organizations", is now available through the same site, at

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/events/VirtOrg2008/VO_report.pdf

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI