ITR: Sustainable and Generalizable Technologies to Support Collaboration in Science

合作实验室是一种新的组织形式，可以帮助地理上分散的科学家紧密合作。已经建立了一些合作实验室，它们的成功和失败是由于尚未充分综合的技术和社会因素的结合。该项目将定义、抽象并编纂导致成功合作的潜在技术和社会机制。它将提供词汇表、相关原则和设计方法，以便在广泛的环境中传播和维持合作。这个项目将加强科学实践和培养新的科学家。这些目标将通过三个协调的活动来实现：(1)对合作实验室的设计和使用进行定性和定量研究，检查性能的技术和社会方面；(2)创建和维护一个合作知识库，一个可通过网络访问的原始材料、摘要和摘要以及相关概括和原则的存档，一个合作资源数据库和其他相关材料；(3)原则、启发式和框架的抽象和编纂，以指导成功的协作的快速创建和部署，包括设计或定制的原则。

Collaboratories are new organizational forms to help scientists who are geographically dispersed to work closely together. A number of collaboratories have been built, and their successes and failures have been due to a combination of technical and social factors not yet fully synthesized. This project will define, abstract, and codify the underlying technical and social mechanisms that lead to successful collaboratories. It will provide the vocabulary, associated principles, and design methods for propagating and sustaining collaboratories across a wide range of circumstances. This project will enhance both the practice of science and the training of new scientists. These goals will be achieved through three coordinated activities: (1) The qualitative and quantitative study of collaboratory design and usage, examining both technical and social aspects of performance; (2) creation and maintenance of a Collaboratory Knowledge Base, a Web-accessible archive of primary source material, summaries and abstracts, and relevant generalizations and principles, a database of collaboratory resources, and other related material; and (3) the abstraction and codification of principles, heuristics, and frameworks to guide the rapid creation and deployment of successful collaboratories, including principles of design or customization.