Casting the Net: Towards a Model for Collaboration and Communication on the Electronic Network; A Symposium to be held in Washington, DC.

在人文科学和科学领域，电子网络是 越来越多地用于访问，传播和研究工作 数据，并与同事就此进行沟通 research. 国家研究和发展的紧迫性 教育网络（NREN）正在大大加快这一进程，但 也带来了发展结构的必要性， 沟通、协作和关键控制， 这在很大程度上是前所未有的。 关于什么是可行的和 什么是可取的需要得到解决。 我们也很少分享 了解如何处理网络管理问题， 以确保学术自主权。 有鉴于此，25位网络发展专家， 数据库设计、电子信息管理和网络 正在召集用户研究，以考虑如何最大限度地 利用NREN发展中隐含的机会， 研究和教育的媒介。 需要快速的实验原型， 专题讨论会/讲习班，一个电子 研究和学习环境将作为一个假设 被参与者系统地批判， 建立一个具体的理解，需要什么， 使这样一个原型在智力上和技术上都是合理的， 完全可行。 本次专题讨论会的成果将向决策者报告 在国家人文科学基金会和国家 科学基金会。

In the humanities and sciences alike, electronic networks are increasingly used to access, disseminate, and work with research data and to communicate with colleagues in connection with this research. The imminent development of the National Research and Education Network (NREN) is greatly accelerating this process, but also brings with it the need to develop structures of communication, collaboration, and critical control which are largely unprecedented. Basic questions about what is feasible and what is desirable need to be addressed. We also have little shared understanding of how to handle the problem of network management so as to insure the preservation of academic autonomy. In view of this, twenty-five experts in network development, database design, electronic information management, and network user research are being convened to consider how to turn to maximum advantage the opportunities implicit in the development of NREN as a medium for research and education. Rapid experimental prototyping is needed, and at this symposium/workshop, a substantive conception of an electronic research and learning environment will be presented as a hypothesis to be critiqued systematically by the participants in the interest of establishing a concrete understanding of what is required to make such a prototype intellectually sound and technologically and fiscally feasible. The results of this symposium will be reported to decision makers in the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.