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Collaboratories: leveraging information technology for cooperative research.

T K Schleyer1

  • 1Department of Dental Informatics, Temple University School of Dentistry, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. titus@dental.temple.edu

Journal of Dental Research
|August 14, 2001
PubMed
Summary

Collaborative research is increasing due to efficiency needs. Information technology infrastructures, or collaboratories, can facilitate cooperation across diverse research teams by enhancing communication and knowledge sharing.

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Area of Science:

  • Information Science
  • Organizational Science
  • Sociology of Science

Background:

  • Growing economic, organizational, and societal pressures drive collaborative research.
  • Research collaborations increasingly span temporal, geographical, organizational, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries.
  • Facilitating effective collaboration in complex research projects is a key challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define and explore the role of collaboratories in supporting cooperative research.
  • To identify information technology tools that can enable collaboratories.
  • To highlight the potential and considerations for implementing collaboratories.

Main Methods:

  • Defining collaboratories as IT infrastructures for cooperation.
  • Listing specific IT tools for collaboratory implementation (e.g., web workspaces, conferencing, chat).

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  • Discussing the potential of collaboratories to overcome collaboration barriers.

    • Main Results:

    • Collaboratories leverage information technology to support shared goals.
    • A variety of IT tools can be integrated into collaboratories.
    • Collaboratories can facilitate interaction, communication, and knowledge-sharing among researchers.

    Conclusions:

    • Collaboratories offer significant potential for enhancing cooperative research.
    • Careful evaluation is necessary to establish best practices for collaboratory use.
    • IT-enabled collaboratories are crucial for modern, boundary-spanning research endeavors.