TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olson,Gary M.
AU  - Zimmerman,Ann
AU  - Bos,Nathan
TI  - Scientific collaboration on the Internet / 
T2  - Acting with technology
SN  - 9780262151207 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 507.2   22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. : 
PB  -  MIT Press, 
KW  - Science
KW  -  Computer network resources
KW  - Internet
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Forewordp. ix Prefacep. xi Introductionp. 1 The Contemporary Collaboratory Visionp. 13 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communicationp. 15 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration?p. 33 Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Sciencep. 51 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratoriesp. 53 A Theory of Remote Scientific Collaborationp. 73 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundariesp. 99 Physical Sciencesp. 119 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratoryp. 121 The National Virtual Observatoryp. 135 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborationsp. 143 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratoryp. 153 Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deploymentp. 171 Biological and Health Sciencesp. 195 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Programp. 197 The Biomedical Informatics Research Networkp. 221 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centersp. 233 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approachp. 251 Earth and Environmental Sciencesp. 275 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Researchp. 277 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Programp. 297 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Networkp. 311 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Developmentp. 331 The Developing Worldp. 349 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Programp. 351 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countriesp. 365 Conclusionp. 377 Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories? Contributorsp. 395 Indexp. 399
N2  - Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location--the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today, information and communication technologies allow cooperation among scientists from far-flung institutions and different disciplines. "Scientific Collaboration on the Internet" provides both broad and in-depth views of how new technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. The book offers commentary from notable experts in the field along with case studies of large-scale collaborative projects, past and ongoing. The projects described range from the development of a national virtual observatory for astronomical research to a National Institutes of Health funding program for major multilaboratory medical research; from the deployment of a cyberinfrastructure to connect experts in earthquake engineering to partnerships between developed and developing countries in AIDS research. The chapter authors speak frankly about the problems these projects encountered as well as the successes they achieved. The book strikes a useful balance between presenting the real stories of collaborations and developing a scientific approach to conceiving, designing, implementing, and evaluating such projects. It points to a future of scientific collaborations that build successfully on aspects from multiple disciplines. Contributors: Mark S. Ackerman, Paul Avery, Matthew Bietz, Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Nathan Bos, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Randal Butler, David Conz, Eric Cook, Daniel Cooney, Jonathon N. Cummings, Erik Dahl, Mark Ellisman, Ixchel Faniel, Thomas A. Finholt, Ian Foster, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Edward J. Hackett, Robert J. Hanisch, Libby Hemphill, Tony Hey, Erik C. Hofer, Mark James, Carl Kesselman, Sara Kiesler, Timothy L. Killeen, Airong Luo, Kelly L. Maglaughlin, Doru Marcusiu, Shawn McKee, William K. Michener, James D. Myers, Marsha Naidoo, Michael Nentwich, Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson, James Onken, Andrew Parker, John N. Parker, Mary Puetz, David Ribes, Kathleen Ricker, Diana Rhoten, Michael E. Rogers, Titus Schleyer, Diane H. Sonnenwald, B. F. Spencer, Jr., Stephanie D. Teasley, Anne Trefethen, Robert B. Waide, Mary C. Whitton, William Wulf, Jason Yerkie, Jude Yew, Ann Zimmerman. "Acting with Technology series
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