Charles M. Schweik (Charlie) is an Associate Professor with a joint appointment shared between the Department of Natural Resources Conservation (www.umass.edu/nrc) and the Center for Public Policy and Administration (www.masspolicy.org) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also the Associate Director of the National Center for Digital Government (www.ncdg.org), and an affilated researcher with the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on environmental management and policy, public-sector information technology, and the intersection of those domains.
Selected Articles
Toward Open Public Administration Scholarship (with Ines Mergel, Jodi Sandfort, and Zhirong Zhao), Journal of Public Administration Theory and Research (2011)
This essay focuses on the potential of information communication technologies to move the Public Administration...
Applying Elinor Ostrom's Rule Classification Framework to the Analysis of Open Source Software Commons (with Meelis Kitsing), Transnational Corporations Review (2010)
This research investigates the utility of Ostrom and Crawford’s rule classification framework (elaborated in Understanding...
Success and Abandonment in Open Source Commons: Selected Findings from an Empirical Study of Sourceforge.net Projects (with Robert English, Qimti Paienjton, and Sandy Haire), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010) Workshops (2010)
Some open source software collaborations are sustained over long periods of time and across several...
Factors Leading to Success or Abandonment of Open Source Commons: An Empirical Analysis of Sourceforge.net Projects (with Robert English and Sandra Haire), South African Computer Journal (2009)
Open source software is produced cooperatively by groups of people who work together via the...
Open-Source Collaboration: Two Cases in the U.S. Public Sector (with Michael Hamel), First Monday (2009)
Globally, there is an emergence of open source consortia focused on the sharing of resources...
Papers in Edited Volumes
“Brooks’ versus Linus’ Law: An Empirical Test of Open Source Projects (with Robert English, Meelis Kitsing, and Haire Sandra) (2008)
In this paper, we investigate collective action in open source software development, where both volunteers...
Linking Disciplines across Space and Time: Useful Concepts and Approaches for Land-Cover Change Studies (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
Retrieving Land-Cover Change Information from Landsat Satellite Images by Minimizing Other Sources of Reflectance Variability (with Glen M. Green and J C. Randolph) (2005)
Modeling human-environmental systems (with J Morgan Grove, Tom Evans, and Glen Green) (2002)
This chapter focuses on the integration and development of environmental models that include human decision...
Teaching
Introduction to Geographic Science Using ArcGIS V10 (with Bethany Bradley), University of Massachusetts, Amherst Institutional Repository (2012)
This is a lab exercise manual with extra supplemental exercises for use in an introductory...
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems using ArcGIS v10 (with Lara Aniskoff), Self-published exercise manual (2011)
A lab exercise manual used in an Introduction to Geographic Information Systems class designed for...
Other
Proceedings of the OSS 2012 Doctoral Consortium (with Klaas-Jan Stol and Imed Hammouda), Tempere University of Technology (2012)
Papers accepted (and revised) by doctoral students who participated in the Open Source Systems (OSS)...
Proceedings of the OSS 2011 Doctoral Consortium (with Imed Hammouda), Tampere University of Technology (2011)
Proceedings of the Open Source Systems 2011 Doctoral Consortium that was co-located with the 7th...