National collaboratories [[electronic resource] ] : applying information technology for scientific research / / Committee on a National Collaboratory Establishing the User-Developer Partnership ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778796503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993
• ISBN: 1-280-21125-3; 9786610211258; 0-309-58532-5; 0-585-08482-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (118 p.)
• Disciplina: 507.20285
• Soggetti: Group work in research - United States; Research - United States - Methodology; Information technology - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).
• Nota di contenuto: ""National Collaboratories""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""1 Science, Collaboration, and Information Technology""; ""INCREASE IN VOLUME OF INFORMATION AND COMPLEXITY""; ""INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION""; ""THE COLLABORATORY CONCEPT""; ""THIS STUDY""; ""2 Building Collaboratories for Oceanography""; ""OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH""; ""Field Experimentation""; ""Modeling""; ""COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN OCEANOGRAPHY""; ""International Initiatives""; ""World Ocean Circulation Experiment""; ""Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Program""""Additional Interdisciplinary Programs""; ""USING COLLABORATORY COMPONENTS TO FACILITATE RESEARCH""; ""Improving Access to Colleagues""; ""Electronic Communication""; ""Educational Workshops""; ""Improving Access to Data""; ""Providing Tools for Collaboration in Oceanography""; ""TOGA Data Catalog""; ""Globe Data Catalog""; ""Tour Tool""; ""Cruise Planning Tool""; ""Ontology Tool""; ""ATTRIBUTES OF A USEFUL ; COLLABORATORY FOR OCEANOGRAPHY""; ""Interoperability""; ""Transparency""; ""Customizability""; ""Integrity and Extensibility""; ""3 Building Collaboratories in Space Physics""""SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH""; ""Data Collection and Instrumentation""; ""Methods and Technologies for Data Analysis""; ""EXAMPLES OF COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS IN SPACE PHYSICS RESEARCH""; ""Initial and Ongoing Collaborative Programs""; ""Space Physics Analysis Network""; ""Coordinated Data Analysis Workshops""; ""Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorer/Charge Composition Explorer""; ""Sondre Stromfjord Observatory Testbed""; ""Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program""; ""Geospace Environment Modeling Program""; ""International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program""""Space Physics Data System: a Collaboratory of One""; ""NEW OPPORTUNITIES PROVIDED BY A COLLABORATORY FOR SPACE PHYSICS""; ""COMPONENTS OF A COLLABORATORY INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""4 Building Collaboratories for Molecular Biology""; ""GENOME RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY""; ""TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE GENOME RESEARCH""; ""CURRENT DATABASE SYSTEMS""; ""MedLine""; ""GenBank""; ""Genome Data Base""; ""FUTURE INFORMATION SYSTEMS-TOWARD A WORKING COLLABORATORY""; ""Basic Components and Research Prototypes""; ""Remote Analysis Serversâ€?Blast""""Interconnecting Archival Databasesâ€?Entrez""; ""Community Information Systems""; ""Basic Elements and Capabilities""; ""A Model Collaboratoryâ€?Worm Community System""; ""OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE RESEARCH""; ""5 Building and Using Collaboratories""; ""IDENTIFYING BASIC CAPABILITIES A COLLABORATORY SHOULD SUPPORT""; ""PROVIDING BASIC CAPABILITIES-TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""Interconnecting Data Sources""; ""Sharing and Applying Programs""; ""Controlling Remote Instruments""; ""Supporting User Interaction""; ""Achieving Transparency""; ""ACKNOWLEDGING CONTEXT-SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS""