Exploiting the Use of Social Networking to Facilitate Collaboration in the Scientific Community, Period of Report 7/15/2010 through 7/14/2014.

Coppock, E. G. ; Shankar, M.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Social communication;    Collaborative techniques;    Scientific research;    Communication networks;    Data analysis;   

RP-ID  :  DE141126927

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

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.