On 14-16 January 2008 the University of Chicago hosted an NSF-sponsored workshop on Building Effective Virtual Organizations (BEVO). VOs are a key component of the NSF cyberinfrastructure vision, and NSF has been rolling out a number of calls for the establishment of what are essentially disciplinary VOs. The web site for the meeting is at

The plenary sessions were recorded and are now available for webcast. You can find the agenda, with links to play back these sessions, at:

There is also a useful brief bibliography that can be found linked to the main workshop page.

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI