Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bos, Nathan
• Olson, Gary M.
• Zimmerman, Ann, 1962-

Description

xii, 406 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Acting with technology

Uniform Title

Acting with technology

Subject

• Cooperative Behavior
• Internet
• Science
• Science > Computer network resources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / William A. Wulf -- Introduction / Gary M. Olson, Nathan Bos and Ann Zimmerman -- I. Contemporary Collaboratory Vision -- 1. E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication / Tony Hey and Anne Trefethen -- 2. Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration? / Michael Nentwich -- II. Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Science -- 3. From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories / Nathan Bos, Ann Zimmerman, Judith S. Olson, Jude Yew, Jason Yerkie, Erik Dahl, Daniel Cooney and Gary M. Olson -- 4. Theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration / Judith S. Olson, Erik C. Hofer, Nathan Bos, Ann Zimmerman, Gary M. Olson, Daniel Cooney and Ixchel Faniel -- 5. Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries / Jonathon N. Cummings and Sara Kiesler -- III. Physical Sciences -- 6. National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory / James D. Myers -- 7. National Virtual Observatory / Mark S. Ackerman, Erik C. Hofer and Robert J. Hanisch -- 8. High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations / Erik C. Hofer, Shawn McKee, Jeremy P. Birnholtz and Paul Avery -- 9. Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory / Gary M. Olson, Timothy L. Killeen and Thomas A. Finholt -- 10. Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment / Diane H. Sonnenwald, Mary C. Whitton and Kelly L. Maglaughlin -- IV. Biological and Health Sciences -- 11. National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program / Michael E. Rogers and James Onken -- 12. Biomedical Informatics Research Network / Judith S. Olson, Mark Ellisman, Mark James, Jeffrey S. Grethe and Mary Puetz -- 13. Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers / Stephanie D. Teasley, Titus Schleyer, Libby Hemphill and Eric Cook -- 14. Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach / Nathan Bos -- V. Earth and Environmental Sciences -- 15. Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Research / Edward J. Hackett, John N. Parker, David Conz, Diana Rhoten and Andrew Parker -- 16. Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program / William K. Michener and Robert B. Waide -- 17. Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network / David Ribes and Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 18. NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development / B.F. Spencer, Jr., Randal Butler, Kathleen Ricker, Doru Marcusiu, Thomas A. Finholt, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman and Jeremy P. Bimholtz -- VI. Developing World -- 19. International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program / Matthew Bietz, Marsha Naidoo and Gary M. Olson -- 20. How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries / Airong Luo and Judith S. Olson -- Conclusion: Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories? / Nathan Bos, Gary M. Olson and Ann Zimmerman.

ISBN

• 9780262151207 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262151200 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008007300

OCLC

199458454

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library