Supporting distributed scientific collaboration: Implications for designing the CiteSeer collaboratory
Published 1 January 2007
Umer Farooq, Craig H. Ganoe, John M. Carroll, C. Lee Giles
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Four novel implications for designing the CiteSeer collaboratory are presented: visualize query-based social networks to identify scholarly communities of interest, provide online collaborative tool support for upstream stages of scientific collaboration, and use notification systems to convey scientific activity awareness.
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It is unclear if and how collaboratories have enhanced distributed scientific collaboration. Furthermore, little is known in the way of design strategies to support such collaboration. Based on a survey and follow-up interviews with CiteSeer users, we present four novel implications for designing the CiteSeer collaboratory. First, visualize query-based social networks to identify scholarly communities of interest. Second, provide online collaborative tool support for upstream stages of scientific collaboration. Third, support activity awareness for staying cognizant of online scientific activities. Fourth, use notification systems to convey scientific activity awareness
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