Scientific collaboration on the Internet / / edited by Gary M. Olson, Ann Zimmerman, and Nathan Bos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817556503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-262-28104-X; 1-4356-9183-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Collana: Acting with technology
• Altri autori (Persone): OlsonGary M; ZimmermanAnn <1962->; BosNathan
• Disciplina: 507.2
• Soggetti: Science - Computer network resources; Internet
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; I The Contemporary Collaboratory Vision; 1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication; 2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration?; II Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Science; 3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories; 4 A Theory of Remote Scienti c Collaboration; 5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries; III Physical Sciences; 6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory7 The National Virtual Observatory; 8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations; 9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory; 10 Evaluation of a Scienti c Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment; IV Biological and Health Sciences; 11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program; 12 The Biomedical Informatics Research Network; 13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach; V Earth and Environmental Sciences; 15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center ; for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Research; 16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program; 17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network; 18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development; VI The Developing World; 19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries; Conclusion Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories? ; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Modern science is increasingly collaborative, and this volume looks at the challenges and rewards of scientific collaboration enabled by information and communication technology, from theoretical approaches to in-depth case studies.