Scientific collaboration on the Internet

Foreword . . ix
Preface . . xi
Introduction . . 1

I The Contemporary Collaboratory Vision . . 13
1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication . . 15
2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration? . . 33

II Perspectives on Distributed, Collaborative Science . . 51
3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories . . 53
4 A Theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration . . 73
5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries . . 99

Ill Physical Sciences . . 119
6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . . 121
7 The National Virtual Observatory . . 135
8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations . . 143
9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaborator/ and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory . . 153
10 Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment . . 171

IV Biological and Health Sciences . . 195
11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program . . 197
12 The Biomedical Informatics Research Network . . 221
13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers . . 233
14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach . . 251

V Earth and Environmental Sciences . . 275
15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecoloairal Research . . 277
16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program . . 297
17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network . . 311
18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development . . 331

VI The Developing World . . 349
19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program . . 351
20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries . . 365

Conclusion
Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories? . . 377
Contributors . . 395
Index . . 399