Organizational Genetics

This material is based upon work supported by the NSF (Grant #: VOSS-0943010 and VOSS-1120966) and CIGREF. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Zhewei Zhang

Beyond Routines

• What can we do with this approach beyond analysis of routines?

DNA Sequence of Digital Artifact

DNA Sequence of Digital Artifact

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Coding the data

  Possible Values Amazon eCommerce OpenLayers Mashup A

Owner Type Sin (single API owner), Mlt (multiple APIs owner) Mlt Sin Sin

Openness Opn (open), Cls (closed) Cls Opn Cls

Service Context New (news), Shp (shopping),  Med (media),Son 

(social network), Map (mapping), S 

(advertising),Sec (search), Utl (utility), Com 

(communication)

Shp Map MapShp

Service Function Rtr (retrieve), Upl (upload), Upd (update), Rmv 

(remove)

RtrUplUpdRmv Rtr RtrUpl

Licensing Fre (free), Pad (paid) Fre Fre Pad

 Subject Type Api (web API), Msp (Mashup) Api Api Msp

Beyond Sequence Analysis

• After you have done sequence analysis, you can also do

Phylogenetic Analysis

Phylogenetic Analysis

Phylogenetic Analysis 1

Phylogenetic Analysis 2

Phylogenetic Analysis 2

Questions to Answer

Branching: when, where and how• When does the new species/routine/digital

artifact emerge?• Where is the new emergence (particular

clade)？• How does the new emergence look like

(similar or dissimilar to existing ones)? And how much difference are there?

ANYTHING that can be broken down into stable elemental building blocks

whose values vary across space and/or time.

Thank you!