Construct and sustain a physical-virtual network of a research institute: case DHD-IRICE

The article presents a preliminary multidimensional analysis of the dhd-irice case study, which addressed the physical-virtual organizational redesign of the Rosario Institute for Research in Educational Sciences (irice) of the National University of Rosario and the National Council for Scientific Research and Techniques (Argentina). irice sought to improve its visibility on the web and to initiate a process of transformation of the research culture, of publication in Open Access and training of human resources towards a modality of collaborative work and in red. For the study of the case has been applied an analytical model conformed by four integrated dimensions: Social, Institutional, Technological and Textual. It is considered feasible the "Sustainability- dhd", when a process of social validation, a few durability in the time and a growth of the initial socio-technical social is evidenced. From the observed, it is possible to affirm that it has reached a positive social validation of dhd-irice. However, it is necessary to deepen institutional strategies to foster greater cohesion in participation and production in collaborative networks of mediated research and / or extension. This implies improving the conditions of sustainability in relation to scalability and durability. Thus, the involvement of different social groups and the increase of the production of collaborative content will impel irice as a national reference in educational research.