CORE--INFORMATICS

信息学核心的目的有四个方面：（1）建立研究合作实验室，即电子基础设施， 使参与者很容易远程合作，为纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心;（2）描述和分析 （3）向感兴趣的受众传播中心的成果;（4）调查 使用信息技术为基础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机构的愿景已被多次阐述，但它 在生物医学研究中很少得到实施和评估。该项目的第一个目标是支持我们的多机构， 利用协同工作和知识管理技术的多学科协作中心。 该项目将首先确定协作基础设施的详细要求，并收集基线参与者、任务， 和交互数据。协作基础设施将使用现成的商业软件设计和实施 用于基于Web的协作、讨论列表、新闻组、在线实时协作、自动 通知;以及可能的基于互联网的视频会议。在实施和培训后，利用数据和用户 将收集反馈意见，以完善和评估基础设施。收集和分析相互作用和利用 数据将支持我们的第二个目标，并帮助我们了解大规模的分布式研究合作是如何工作的。我们的第三个目标是 向更大的生物医学界和其他利益相关者传播纽约大学口腔癌RAAHF中心的研究成果。 万维网和因特网将是主要的传播渠道。我们将建立在对什么的差异化理解的基础上， 信息中心的观众需要，以及他们将如何使用它。一个主要的目标是创建一个“虚拟社区”， M U口腔癌RAAHP中心项目，以实现知识创造，发展和传播的共同愿景 关于口腔癌最后，信息学核心将研究如何利用信息技术来改善 口腔癌的诊断和管理--对医生和病人都是如此。 我们预计，该项目不仅将为纽约大学口腔癌RAAHP中心的目标提供重要支持， 也有助于获得如何利用信息技术支持大型合作研究项目的新见解， 进一步开发工具和应用程序存在哪些机会或需求，哪些与信息学有关的变量可以 积极或消极地影响项目成果。

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 multiinstitutional, mu1 ti-disciplinary and collaborative Center using collaborative work and knowledge management technologies. The project will first determine detailed requirements 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 RAAHF' 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 M U Oral Cancer RAAHP Center Project to enable a shared vision of knowledge creation, development and dissemination regarding oral cancer. Lastly, the informatics core will investigate how information technology can be used to improve the 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.