Collaborative Environments for Research, Teaching and Learning: Background

“A collaboratory is a network-based facility and organizational entity that spans distance, supports rich and recurring human interaction oriented to a common research area, fosters contact between researchers who are both known and unknown to each other, and provides access to data sources, artifacts and tools required to accomplish research tasks.” (Olson, Zimmerman, and Bos, 2008) emphasis added

Olson, Gary M., Ann Zimmerman, & Nathan Bos. (Eds.) (2008). Scientific collaboration on the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. http://ucmerced.worldcat.org/oclc/646768080

Science of Collaboratories includes bibliography and a database of collaboratory projects. See also Bos, et al. (2007). From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12, 652-672.

Lee, E. Sally et. al. (2010) Incorporating collaboratory concepts into informatics in support of translational interdisciplinary biomedical research. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2606933/

van der Vaart, Lilian. (2010) Collaboratories: Connecting Researchers. How to facilitate choice, design and uptake of online research collaborations. Surf Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.surf.nl/nl/publicaties/Documents/Collaboratories%20Connecting%20Researchers9april.pdf