Western Regional Biomedical Collaboratory

描述（由申请人提供）： 怀俄明州大学与法拉格特系统公司合作。与美国西部的知名研究型大学合作，将为西部地区生物医学合作实验室（WRBC）制定一项全面的战略计划。WRBC的使命将是建立在通过先前和正在进行的NIH支持开发的人力和技术基础设施之上，以在美国西部的几所大学之间创造一种生物医学研究跨学科合作的文化。WRBC的长期目标是提供工具和技术，用于（1）在参与机构之间共享信息和知识，（2）使用上下文适当的信息管理技术搜索，可视化和操纵信息，以及（3）支持这些机构的生物医学科学研究人员之间的沟通和合作。 这个为期两年的项目将产生一个全面的书面计划， 保持西部地区的生物医学研究合作。该计划将汇集来自每个参与研究机构的代表，沿着来自IAIMS社区的经验丰富的信息系统开发人员和专家，以评估网络中生物医学研究人员的需求，并制定一项计划，以促进他们之间的信息共享和研究。该计划将讨论鼓励和支持这种合作的政策和战略。 该计划还将支持开发一个原型分布式信息管理系统，该系统将提供上下文相关的信息，以支持有效搜索，共享和管理研究数据和相关文件，如已发表或出版的论文，技术报告，该原型将把研究信息与标准化的描述符联系起来，这些描述符可以很容易地被授权用户在各种问题中搜索，具体方式。网络中的规划人员和研究人员将使用该原型来评估研究人员在查找和分享研究知识以及与地理上分散的地点的同事发展合作关系方面的需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Wyoming, in cooperation with Farragut Systems, Inc. and established research university partners in the Western United States, will create a comprehensive strategic plan for the Western Regional Biomedical Collaboratory, or WRBC. The mission of the WRBC will be to build upon human and technological infrastructure developed through prior and ongoing NIH support to create a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in biomedical research among several universities in the Western United States. The long-term goal for the WRBC will be to provide tools and technology for (1) sharing information and knowledge among the participating institutions, (2) searching, visualizing, and manipulating information using context-appropriate information management techniques, and (3) supporting communication and collaboration among researchers in the biomedical sciences at these institutions. This two-year project will result in a comprehensive, written plan for establishing and maintaining biomedical research collaborations across the western region. This program will bring together representatives from each of the participating research institutions, along with experienced information systems developers and experts from the IAIMS community, to assess the needs of biomedical researchers in the network and develop a plan to facilitate information sharing and research among them. Policies and strategies for encouraging and supporting such collaboration will be addressed in the plan. The planning program will also support the development of a prototype distributed information management system that will provide context-appropriate information to support effective searching, sharing, and stewardship of research data and related documents such as published or in-press papers, technical reports, etc. This prototype will link research information to standardized descriptors that can be easily searched by authorized users in a variety of problem-specific ways. The prototype will be used by the planners and researchers in the network to evaluate the needs of researchers for locating and sharing research knowledge and developing collaborative relationships with colleagues at geographically dispersed sites.