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Ticer Summer School
1. The Long and Winding Road to Success in Science Collaboratories Gary M. Olson Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Ticer Summer School August 5, 2009
27. South Africa 1. Project Participants Partners AIDS Research Center, Harvard U Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Medicine, U of Oxford Nelson Mandela College of Medicine, U of Natal, Durban
28. Botswana 2. Project Participants School of Public Health, Harvard University Ministry of Health, Republic of Botswana
This is a picture of the Sondrestrom research facility that is maintained by SRI International under contract with the National Science Foundation (NSF). The large antennae is the facilities Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR). Other instruments at the site include a magnetometer, a LIDAR, all-sky camera, Fabry-Perot Inferometery, Imaging Riometer and Imaging Spectrometer, Normal Beam Riometer, etc. The facility’s Internet access is via NASA Science Internet by satellite to NASA Goddard.
An advanced users view of SPARC; lots of information in multiple SPARC pages! The typical SPARC collaboration features down the left hand side, page information, resource list, active user list, and chat Streaming video in the lower left. Lots of data and model views throughout the rest of the screen shot.
One of the major accomplishments of the past year is realizing there are some major categories of collaboratories. We focus on seven types, some of which, you will notice, are dead center in our definition of collaboratories, and some which relax some key features. The first set are clearly focused on research, the second more on practice. Our primary focus is on those that involve human-human interaction as well as access to instruments or information…but some, as you will see, are light on the human-human interaction, and some are loose, like the community of practice, and some have to do with learning or remote access to an expert, not centrally human-human interaction. So, these are the seven. We’re now going to go through the definition of each with an example.