| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Acting with technology |
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Acting with technology.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies |
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INFORMATION SCIENCE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Computer network resources
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Internet.
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Internet
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Internet.
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SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
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Internet
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Science -- Computer network resources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Gary M.
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Zimmerman, Ann, 1962-
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Bos, Nathan.
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| ISBN |
9780262281041 |
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026228104X |
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9781435691834 |
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1435691830 |
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