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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a National Collaboratory: Establishing the User-Developer Partnership.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group work in research--United States.

Group work in research.

Research--United States--Methodology.

Research.

Information technology--United States.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Computing and communications are becoming essential tools of science. Together, they make possible new kinds and degrees of collaboration. This book addresses technical, scientific, and social aspects of fostering scientific collaboration using information technology. It explores issues in molecular biology, oceanography, and space physics, and derives recommendations for a partnership between scientists and technologists to develop better collaboration technology to support science.

Contents:

""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 Servers�Blast""""Interconnecting Archival Databases�Entrez""; ""Community Information Systems""; ""Basic Elements and Capabilities""; ""A Model Collaboratory�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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 78-79).

ISBN:

9786610211258

9781280211256

1280211253

9780309585323

0309585325

9780585084824

0585084823

OCLC:

923261503