CORE--INFORMATICS

信息学核心的目的有四个方面：(1)为纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心建立一个研究合作实验室，即一个电子基础设施，使参与者可以轻松地远程合作；(2)描述和分析中心内部的协作过程；(3)向感兴趣的受众传播中心成果；(4)探讨利用基于信息技术的干预措施改善口腔癌诊断和管理实践的可行性。虽然由信息技术支持的研究合作的愿景已被阐明了无数次，但它在生物医学研究中很少得到实施和评估。该项目的首要目标是支持我们在生物医学研究中多机构、多学科和很少被评估的研究。该项目的第一个目标是利用协同工作和知识管理技术支持我们的多机构、多学科和协作中心。项目将首先确定协作基础设施所需的详细信息，并收集基线参与者、任务和交互数据。协作基础设施将使用商业现成软件设计和实施，用于诸如基于web的工作空间等应用程序；讨论列表;新闻组;在线、实时协作；自动通知;可能还有基于互联网的视频会议。在实施和培训之后，将收集利用数据和用户反馈，以便改进和评估基础设施。收集和分析交互和使用数据将支持我们的第二个目标。并帮助我们了解大规模、分布式的研究合作是如何运作的。我们的第三个目标是将纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心的研究成果传播给更大的生物医学界和其他利益相关者。网络和互联网将是传播的主要途径。我们将对中心的受众需要什么信息以及他们将如何使用这些信息有不同的理解。一个主要目标是创建一个以纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心项目为中心的“虚拟社区”，使从业者和患者都能共享口腔癌的知识创造、发展和传播、诊断和管理的愿景。我们预计，该项目不仅将为纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心的目标提供重大支持，而且还将有助于获得新的见解，了解如何利用信息技术支持大规模的合作研究项目，进一步开发工具和应用程序的机会或需求，以及哪些信息学相关变量会对项目结果产生积极或消极的影响。

The purpose of the informatics core is four-fold: (1) establish a research collaboratory, i.e. an electronic infrastructure that makes it easy for participants to work together remotely, for the NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center; (2) describe and analyze the collaborative processes within the Center; (3) disseminate Center results to interested audiences; and (4) investigate the feasibility of improving oral cancer diagnosis and management practices using information technology-based interventions. While the vision of research collaboratories supported by information technology has been articulated numerous times, it has been implemented and evaluated only rarely in biomedical research. The first goal of this project is to support our multi-institutional, multi- disciplinary and evaluated only rarely in biomedical research. The first goal of this project is to support our multi-institutional, multi- disciplinary and collaborative Center using collaborative work and knowledge management technologies. The project will first determine detailed required for the collaborative infrastructure and gather baseline participant, task, and interaction data. The collaborative infrastructure will be designed and implemented using commercial off-the-shelf software for applications such as Web-based workspaces; discussion lists; newsgroups; online, real-time collaboration; automatic notifications; and possibly Internet-based videoconferencing. After implementation and training, utilization data and user feedback will be collected in order to refine and evaluate the infrastructure. Collecting and analyzing interaction and utilization data will support our second goal. and help us understand how large, distributed research collaborations work. Our third goal is to disseminate NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center research results to the larger biomedical community and other stakeholders. The Web and the Internet will be the main avenues for dissemination. We will build on a differentiated understanding of what information the Center's audiences need, and how they will use it. A major goal is to create a "virtual community" centered on the NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center Project to enable shared vision of knowledge creation, development and dissemination diagnosis and management of oral cancer both for the practitioner as well as the patient. We anticipate that this project will not only lend significant support to the objectives of the NYU Oral Cancer RAAHP Center, but also help gain new insights in how large scale collaborative research projects can be supported with information technology, which opportunities or needs exist for further development of tools and applications, and which informatics-related variables can positively or negatively affect project outcomes.