From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories
The MIT Press eBooksPublished 31 October 2008
Nathan Bos, Ann Zimmerman, Judith S. Olson, Jude Yew, Jason Yerkie, Erik Dahl
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This chapter contains sections titled: Collaboratory Typologies, Data Set and Sampling Methods, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, Notes, References
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