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BACKGROUND

Motivation/JustificationHypothesis that Web 2.0 technologies can promote:   Collaboration Information exchange Global networking among

scientists (peer-to-peer) Scientific discovery and innovation

BACKGROUND

We believed that scientific researchers would want to collaborate in a different manner than that provided by the typical social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Second Life or Twitter We also wanted the system to support a broad range of both published and grey information types such as technical reports, theses, research notes, research papers in progress

Motivation/Justification (cont’d.)

PHASE I

Primary GoalSpeed the diffusion of scientific knowledge by enabling

improved web 2.0 communications among scientific and research communities.

Ease implementation of peer-to-peer communications

Enable informal content creation of both comments and discussion

Create formal published and grey literature Provide mechanisms to access, import, share, view, and cite

other published and grey literature

PHASE I

Other Potential Benefits Facilitate retrieval of scientific

and technical information by librarians and other informationprofessionals

Apply concept to traditional government research agencies, universities, pharmaceutical companies, and all organizations involved in scientific research

User/Subject Matter Expert Input Sought Interviewed hand-selected

Focus Group Identified larger group

to provide periodic feedback

PHASE I

Major Focus AreasDuring 3 years of research: Determined high-level requirements for

system Simplicity and ease of use Information security

Conducted survey of commercial off-the-shelf/open source systems

Produced prototype for evaluation

PHASE I

Prototype Development Noted considerable change in landscape of

peer-to-peer collaboration between Phase I

and Phase II surveys

Determined significant number of shareware or open source products were highly customizable and would meet many of the project requirements out-of-the-box

PHASE II

PHASE II

Technology

Platform: Considered Ning, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla!, Taverna and SupportMaster; Drupal was chosen

PHASE II

Technology (cont’d.)

Web-based content management system: Research and development led to building a system to enable self-forming groups, where researchers can create usefulweb-based communities around scientific topics of interest to those groups

PHASE II

Technology (cont’d.)

Open Access Standards: Chosen to import documents to the Library sincea primary function of the system is a repository (library) for scientific research information

PHASE II

Beta

“Science-Forums.net”: The name given the website and system bythe Project Team

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Lynn DavisProgram Liaison, MLS

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

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