Exploiting the Use of Social Networking to Facilitate Collaboration in the Scientific Community
- Information International Associates, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Information International Associates, Inc.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The goal of this project was to exploit social networking to facilitate scientific collaboration. The project objective was to research and identify scientific collaboration styles that are best served by social networking applications and to model the most effective social networking applications to substantiate how social networking can support scientific collaboration. To achieve this goal and objective, the project was to develop an understanding of the types of collaborations conducted by scientific researchers, through classification, data analysis and identification of unique collaboration requirements. Another technical objective in support of this goal was to understand the current state of technology in collaboration tools. In order to test hypotheses about which social networking applications effectively support scientific collaboration the project was to create a prototype scientific collaboration system. The ultimate goal for testing the hypotheses and research of the project was to refine the prototype into a functional application that could effectively facilitate and grow collaboration within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research community.
- Research Organization:
- Information International Associates, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Contributing Organization:
- University of Tennessee
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0004851
- OSTI ID:
- 1126927
- Report Number(s):
- DE-SC0004851-IIa--1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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