The challenges and rewards of scientific collaboration enabled by information and communication technology, from theoretical approaches to in-depth case studies.
Author(s): Gary M. Olson, Ann Zimmerman, Nathan Bos, William Wulf
Series: Acting with Technology
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 419
Contents
......Page 6
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
I The Contemporary Collaboratory
Vision......Page 26
1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly
Communication......Page 28
2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized
Collaboration?......Page 46
II Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Science......Page 64
3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories......Page 66
4 A Theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration......Page 86
5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries......Page 112
III Physical Sciences......Page 132
6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory......Page 134
7 The National Virtual
Observatory......Page 148
8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations......Page 156
9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory......Page 166
10 Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment......Page 184
IV Biological and Health Sciences......Page 208
11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant
Program......Page 210
12 The Biomedical Informatics Research
Network......Page 234
13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers......Page 246
14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods
Approach......Page 264
V Earth and Environmental Sciences......Page 288
15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological
Research......Page 290
16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research
Program......Page 310
17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences
Network......Page 324
18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure
Development......Page 344
VI The Developing
World......Page 362
19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis
Program......Page 364
20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries......Page 378
Conclusion Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories?
......Page 390
Contributors......Page 408
Index......Page 412
