VOSS: Collaborative Research: Team Science: Sociotechnical Dimensions of Distributed Work

该项目研究如何有效的跨学科研究合作出现在现代科学。 越来越多的科学和工程问题的解决方案需要多学科的分布式团队，但很少有人知道他们的出现，合并，结构形式和成功。 这项研究开发和测试这种团队的类型学的价值。 还将考虑可能促进持久和富有成效的团队形成的条件，包括领导者的作用以及新的社交软件和基于网络的协作工具的重要性。 将确定不断变化的科学模式以及支持这些新模式的科学机构和基础设施的适当性。 这项研究将有助于对合作，机构，基础设施的作用和科学的研究。 新的网络基础设施使协作科学和工程发生了变革性的变化，但人们对协作所采取的新形式以及新的社交和Web 2.0技术在其创建和发展中的作用知之甚少。这项研究将确定正在出现的科学和工程合作的新形式，如何早期识别和催化它们，以及如何最好地支持和培育它们。 调查网络基础设施变化所带来的新合作、新合作形式和新型科学工作的出现，是学习如何识别、催化和支持新生团队的关键一步，这些团队将成为未来科学和工程进步的核心。 这将有助于资助机构和其他研究机构。 此外，网络基础设施可以加强代表性不足的群体和少数民族机构在科学和工程合作中的参与。

This project studies how effective interdisciplinary research collaborations emerge in modern science. Increasingly, solutions to scientific and engineering problems require multidisciplinary distributed teams, but little is known about their emergence, coalescence, structural form and success. This research develops and tests the value of a typology of such teams. Conditions that may foster formation of enduring and productive teams will also be considered including the role of leaders and the importance of new social software and web-based collaboration tools. Changing models of science and the appropriateness of scientific institutions and infrastructures to support these new models will be identified. This research will contribute to research on collaboration, institutions, the role of infrastructure, and the science of science. New cyberinfrastructure has enabled transformative changes in collaborative science and engineering, but little is known about the new forms that collaborations are taking and the role of new social and Web 2.0 technologies in their creation and development. This study will identify new forms of scientific and engineering collaborations that are emerging, how they be can be identified and catalyzed early, and how they can best be supported and nurtured. Investigating the emergence of new collaborations, new collaborative forms, and new types of scientific work enabled by changes in cyberinfrastructure is a crucial step in learning how to identify, catalyze and support the nascent teams that will be central to future advances in science and engineering. This will be helpful to funding agencies, and other research institutions. In addition, cyberinfrastructure can enhance the participation of under-represented groups and minority institutions in scientific and engineering collaborations.