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APPENDIX A
The Collaboratory Literature Retrieval Set, Annotated
¨ Bulleted articles are the theory-type
research articles (n=22)
analyzed in Chapter Five.
Agarwal, D.A., S.R. Sachs, W.E. Johnston. 1998. The reality of collaboratories. Computer
Physics Communications. 110(1-3) : 134-141.
General introduction to Spectro-Microscopy Facility of the Advanced Light Source,
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Presents design of prototype, lessons learned, software
architecture and components.
Allen, William H. 1993. The rise of the botanical database. Bioscience 43(5) :
274-279.
Advice on use of botanical database presented, new way of asking questions.
Allman, William F. 1993. Pioneering the electronic frontier. US News and World
Report 115 (December) : 56-63.
News feature about people and how they use technology to collaborate. Rich description.
¨ Andersson, Jan, and Jerker Ronnerg. 1996. Collaboration
and memory: Effects of dyadic retrieval on different memory tasks. Applied Cognitive
Psychology 10 (February) : 171-181.
Experiment, collaborative retrieval - 2 experiments: how different types of memory
tasks were affected by two individuals working together compared to working on their own.
¨ Ashton, Sarah, and Philippa Levy. 1998. European research
letter: Networked learner support in higher education: Initiatives in professional
development and research for a new role. JASIS 49 (July) : 850-853.
Libraries in support of networked learning, cultural change, professional development
needs - teacher training, NLS - Networked learner support. U of Sheffield.
Banks, Peter M. 1993. "Collaboratory" principles. Science 262
(November) : 974.
Pre-Wulf history of collaboratory, rebuttal to Wulf 1993.
¨ Barua, Anitesh, Ramnath Chellappa, and Andrew B.
Whinston. 1995. Creating a collaboratory in cyberspace: Theoretical foundation and
implementation. Journal of Organizational Computing 5(4) : 417-442.
Complementarity theory development. implementation description, theory-based approach
to the development of collaboratories on the Internet based on complementarity theory.
Provides conceptual foundation for designing to maximize users' value through judicious
choice of complementary design factors, document-centric, multimedia iterations between
users http://cism.bus.utexas.edu Univ of Texas MIS collaboratory
¨ ________. 1996-1997. The design and development of
Internet- and intranet-based collaboratories. International Journal of Electronic
Commerce 1 (Winter) : 32-58.
Web deployment, calls for shift from proprietary to open standard collaboratory tools,
and integration with databases. Enumerates and analyzes requirements for three types of
collaboratory: individuals with overlapping interests but no formal ties, special-interest
groups, organizations with interdependent workgroups. Reports results of a survey of the
first collaboratory's users, which supports the theoretical platform shift for
integration.
Birrell, James R., et al. 1998. Cooperative learning returns to college: What evidence
is there that it works? Change 30 (July/August).
Report, what is cooperative learning? Theoretical roots, history, research report,
differences among theories.
Bradley, Diane, and Janet Frederick. 1994. The Clinton electronic communications
project: An experiment in electronic democracy. Internet Research 4 (Spring) :
64-70.
Research report. Determines degree to which White House material posted to net is more
current and comprehensive than info available through more traditional means. Virtual vs.
print currency.
Briefs: ARDIS e-mail support. 1995. Computerworld (December 11): 59.
Wireless multimedia collaboratory development.
Burns, Sara L., and Stephen E. Laubach. 1997. Virtual collaboratory, frac city,
facilitates geoscientific collaboration and technology transfer. Proceedings of the
Geoscience Information Society 28 (46): 111-115.
Design, report of implementation, problems inherent in distributed collaboration.
describes "virtual collaboratory" web-based, database, hosted by 3rd party, for
quick deployment and retirement, to promote the research to the interested public (113),
http://www.frac-city.org
Casper, T.A., B. Howard, R. Hunt, et. al. 1989. Remote experimental environment:
Building a collaboratory for fusion research. Computers in Physics 12 (May/June) :
220-226.
Implementation - testbed - description of. advanced computing, control, and
collaboration DIII-D Tokamak, interactive remote participation in experiments.
1987-development, magnetic-fusion-energy research. Are the infrastructure and reports
hidden in the physics literature, inaccessible by keyword? See bib for url Lawrence
Livermore, LLNL, General Atomics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Princeton
Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL). Hidden history in journal titles that don't use the word.
Chellapa, Ramnath, Anitesh Barua and Andrew B. Whinston. 1997. An electronic
infrastructure for a virtual university. Communications of the ACM 40 (September) :
56-58.
Education implementation, goal-oriented. Virtual university- lacks conferencing.
Clement, John. 1992. Constructing the K-12 collaboratory on the NREN. Educom Review
27 (May/June): 18-20.
Column. Scalability, types of projects, need for communication among K-12.
¨ Citera, Maryalice. 1998. Distributed teamwork: The impact
of communication media on influence and decision quality. JASIS 49(9) : 792-800.
Research - media effects of communication, decision-making, evaluation apprehension,
dominant communicators retain, regardless of media (face-to-face, telephone, computer);
less dominant had higher levels of influence on phone, computer.
Computers seen revolutionizing research labs. 1991. The Scientist 5(18) : 1-2.
News type article wish list of visionary scientists. "Except it's not really a
place, it's a distributed electronic environment."
Cooper, Jim. 1993. "Collaboratory" hopes to drive superhighway. Broadcasting
and Cable 123 (December) : 58.
"Collaboratory on Information Infrastructure" formed to form superhighway,
Bellcore and media companies...video transmission over copper wires.
Dede, Chris. 1996. Emerging technologies in distance education for business. Journal
of Education for Business 71 (March) : 197-204.
Report of research, "collective good" social network capital, knowledge
captial, knowledge webs, communication, edu for business, disinhibition, CoVis
________. 1997. Rethinking: How to invest in technology. Educational Leadership
55 (November) : 12-16
Education application. "distributed learning."
Denley, Ian, and Andy Whitefield. 1998. A case history in applying task analysis in the
design of a multimedia cooperative document production system. JASIS 49 (July) :
817-831.
Describes design and analysis work in development of a multiauthor, multimedia document
production system (MAMMDPP)
Dessy, Raymond E. 1997. Der Wir Prinzip. Analytical Chemistry News and Features 69
(December) : 741A-742A.
Review of web configurations and considerations, lots of URLS. Refers to NetMeeting,
mostly about conferencing. Change. "Bayesian" approaches
Edelson, Daniel C, Pea, Roy D., Gomez, Louis M. 1996. The collaboratory notebook. Communications
of the ACM 39 (April) : 32-33.
CoVis software- url provided
Edelson, Daniel C., et al. 1995. A design for effective support of inquiry and
collaboration. CSCL '95 Proceedings 36 (October) : 107-111.
Examines the design goals of the collab notebook
.software. (shared hypermedia
databased to provide scaffold for students as they learn to collaborate). Reviews studies
in sociology of knowledge.
Eroom 2.0: The easy way to collaborate. 1998. PC World 16 (July) : 84.
Eroom 2.0 collaboration software introduction.
Finholt, Thomas A. 1995. Evaluation of electronic work: Research on collaboratories at
the University of Michigan. SIGOIS Bulletin 16 (December) : 49-51.
Research update (NSF supported), historical. Role of behavioral sciences. implications
for studying digital libraries, UARC description. Medical collaboratory. Design
philosophy, Role of behavioral science, implications for studying digital libraries
Finhold, Thomas A. and Gary M. Olson. 1997. From laboratories to collaboratories: A new
organizational form for scientific collaboration. Psychological Science 8 (January)
: 28-37.
General article. Examines collaboratories in physical sciences and potential impact on
psychological science, collaboratories will not themselves change science, authors from
umich. Contains TABLE OF ADDRESSES OF ONLINE COLLABORATORIES, 5 medicine, one humanities,
2 chemistry, 3 biology, 2 space. Includes MOOs as collabs. Research "has not been
guided by a grand plan" (29).
¨ Fox, Geoffrey C. and Jojtek Furmanski. 1995. The use of
the national information infrastructure and high performance computers in industry. In Proceedings
of the Second International Conference on Massively Parallel processing Using Optical
Interconnections. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press : 298-312.
Infrastructure, future of the web. Open technologies. Application areas: business,
health care, defense, education, collaboratory, manufacturing.
¨ Glasner, Peter. 1996. From community to 'collaboratory'?
The Human Genome Mapping Project and the changing culture of science. Science and
Public Policy 23 (April): 109-116.
Research, culture. Attempt to conceptualize scientific communities in sociology,
virtual has no real impact on accepted views of the culture of science, environment may be
better for small, rather than "big science." Why some scientists don't use.
Double-blind situations "Cyberplatonic Dream." Based on research of Human Genome
Mapping Project Worm Community System nice definitions of science, 4 levels of published
information (112).
¨ Haga, Hirohide. 1996. Generic model of collaboration.
The Science and Engineering Review of Doshisha University 37 (July) : 34-44.
Theory. Model of collaboration based on participant and commitment functions by
providing values to attribute to information flow. Model of asynchronous collaboration
proposed. Five typical examples of new collaboration types, 4 elements: information flow
with attributes, a set of participants, a function from one information flow to the subset
of participants (participant function), and a function from one participant to the subset
of information flows (commitment function).
Hardin, Steve R. 1998. Michael Schrage and collaboration: Delivering information
services through collaboration. Bulletin of the American Society for Information
Science 24 (August/September) : 6-8.
Interview with Michael Schrage: information, relationships, augmentation, automation.
¨ Harper, Richard, and Abigail Sellen. 1995. Collaborative
tools and the practicalities of professional work at the Internatinoal Monetary Fund. CHI
'95 Proceedings Papers. http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/
documnts/papers/rh_bdy.htm
Cultural inertia argument for need for paper. Accessed 9/98. Which info good for paper,
which for digital. Reuse of information. Media richness. Judgement.
Henline, Pamela, Compiler and Editor. 1998. Eight collaboratory summaries. Interactions
5 (May) : 66-72. NY: Association for Computing Machinery.
Brief summary of eight implementations with URLS and funding info. Book listing.
¨ Huang, Milton P. and Norman E. Alessi. 1996. The Internet
and the future of psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry 153 (July) : 861-869.
Psychiatry model of Internet: four layers of people and technology that work together,
must be grasped in entirety to be understood, factors.
IBM Develops Virtual City Web Site. 1997. Newsbytes News Network (May 16).
IBM forms institutional collaboratory http://www.ieg.ibm.com
¨ Jeffay, K, J.K. Lin, J. Menges, et. al. 1992.
Architecture of the artifact-based collaboration system matrix. CSCW 92 Proceedings
(November): 195-202.
Describes a component of the UNC collaboratory project, argues need not new tools but
better infrastructure for using single-user tools collectively. Design of software systems
as a single whole. NSF funding.
Johnson, David W. 1998. Collaboration, communities, and Covey: A Model for personal and
professional change. Clearing House. 71 (July/August) : 359-362.
Establishing collaborative relations, uses Stephen R. Covey's (1989) "The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People" as framework for initiating and sustaining teacher
education reform in one elementary school within Brigham Young University Public School
Partnership.
¨ Karamuftuoglu, Murat. 1997. Designing language games in
Okapi. Journal of Documentation 53 (January) : 69-73.
Information retrieval from perspective of semiotics (signs). Two conflicting speech
acts: "detonation" transmits info from database to user.
"prescriptives" can be used to invent new connections between documents, thus
create new knowledge.
Keis, Jonathan K., Robert C. Williges, and Mary Beth Rosson. 1998. Coordinating
computer-supported cooperative work: A Review of research issues and strategies. JASIS
49(9) : 776-791.
Review of research issues and strategies, roles different communication channels play
in coordinating work in cooperative systems. Match to task, computer as a communication
medium / outlines advantages, presents relevant socio-technical consideration, describes
research methods available , Research issues and strategies for implementing CSCW.
Kiernan, Vincent. 1997. All the world's a lab. New Scientist 154 (April): 34-7.
Feature article. Description of various collabs -- good narrative, Tonner at
Uwisc-Madison / Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab , X-ray beam - spectro-microscopy facility.
Kilman, David G. and David W. Forshund. 1997. An international collaboratory based on
virtual patient records. Communications of the ACM 40(8) : 110-117.
Describes collaboratory patient virtual records. See TeleMed (Online), concept of
collab, rich description of use. http://www.acl.lanl.gov/TeleMed Concept, culture of
collab, international.
Kling, Rob. 1991. Cooperation, coordination and control in computer-supported work. Communications
of the ACM 34(12): 24.
Conjunction of technology, users, and worldview, CSCW --- C words.
Kouzes, Richard T. 1995. Creating the cyberspace laboratory. The World and I 10. Washington, DC: The Washington
Times Corp.
Collaboratory basics. Author is PNL molecular science lab collaboratory.
________. 1997. Collaboratories: Can we work together apart?. Scientific Computer
and Automation 14 (January): 52-54.
Conceptual introduction. Complex intertwining. the sociology of collaboration,
groupware, functional requirement. See list of URLS to collab resouces on the web.
http://www.scamag.com
Kouzes, Richard T, James D. Myers, and William A. Wulf. 1996. Collaboratories: doing
science on the Internet. Computer 41 (August) : 40-46.
Overview, technical aspects, progress report. Technical, sociological challenges,
barriers to adoption Prototypes, collaboratory types: peer-to-peer, mentor-student,
interdisciplinary, producer-consumer.
Kovacs, Laszlo. 1998. Discovery of resources within a distributed library system. Communications
of the ACM 41 (April): 78-79.
Technical limits, aims, expectations, intro, history of computational science, digital
library, VRML color and spatial organizational structure. See URL for Digital Library
collaboratory Working Group.
¨ Kydd, Christine T. and Diane L. Ferry. 1991. Computer
supported cooperative work tools and media richness: An integration of the literature. Proceedings
of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences IV(5) :
324-332. Eds. Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. and Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. Organizational Systems and
Technology Track. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press.
Literature review. tools evaluation, presents an evaluation of the successes and
failures of computer supported cooperative work tools in terms of a behavioral theory
which suggests that information processing occurs during group work to 1. Reduce
uncertainty and 2. Resolve eqivocality., Matching the situation with the appropriate tool
is important to implementation success. If uncertainty is the issue, tools that transmit
large amounts; if equivocality, those which are media rich. Surprising results of actual
tools use.
Lepkowski, Wil. 1993. Information revolution offers policy challenges to researchers,
other users. News Edition of the American Chemical Society 71(21) : 25-26. Easton,
PA: The Society
Think tank reports from Council of Competitiveness and NRC 1993, Clinton agenda, dark
side of the revolution: social polarization between information haves and have-nots.
Lewin, David I. 1996. An interview with Mark Ellisman: Building an imaging
collaboratory. Computers in Physics 10 (Sep/Oct): 414-5.
Interview, report of project, molecular- and cellular-imaging collaboratory, National
Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UCSD. No url given.
Lyman, Peter. 1996. What is a digital library? Technology, intellectual property, and
the public interest. Daedalus 125 (Fall): 1-33.
Visualization, collab= "a form of living textuality" see footnote 19. Digital
library, social aspects, description. See footnote #4 re literacy. Reading. Space.
"Is it possible to create public institutions in cyberspace?"
¨ Mantovani, Giuseppe. 1995. Virtual reality as a
communication environment: Consensual hallucination, fiction, and possible selves. Human
Relations 48(6) : 669-683.
Virtual reality as a communication environment from point of view of social psychology.
Reviews research on quality of current VR systems integrated into self-identity theory.
"technologies nurture specific political, ideological, and also mystical beliefs as
essential aspects of their moral foundation."
McCune, Jenny C. 1998. Working together, but apart. Management Review 87
(September).
Intro to collaboration, collaboration gap - reasons for success and failure; need
trust, technical and personal issues for failure.
McNamara, Sean. 1992. Australia: Cray and Swinburne form research center. Newsbytes
News Networks (July).
Announcement of Australian Computational Research collaboratory (ACRC) for business and
industry
Metcalfe, Bob. 1997. Electronic Taj Mahals might reduce travel to and from session
breaks. InfoWorld 19 (January) : 44.
ACM collaboratory initiative, questions on design concepts, Wulf calls collabs
"time machines." See urls and email addresses.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1995. Migrating towards an European
scientific collaboratory. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 889(38) : 190-197.
"Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and understand"
-Chinese proverb (190) E-collaboratory in Europe. Explores migration steps to provide
functionality.
¨ Mitchell, Will, and Kulwant Singh. 1996. Survival of
businesses using collaborative relationships to commercialize complex goods. Strategic
Management Journal 17 (April) : 169-195.
Research - effects of collaboration on businesses delivering complex goods,
NTIS DIALOG(R)File265:FEDRIP#00343290. 1998. Molecular interactive collaborative
environments (MICE). Principal Investigator: Bourne, Philip. 84. UC San Diego.
Research grant award announcement - continuing, abstract.
Olson, Gary M..1995. An appreciation of Laurence Rosenberg. Communications of the
ACM 38(4 ) : 75.
Obiturary NSF collaboratory pioneer.
Olson, Gary M., Daniel E Atkins, Robert Clauer, et al. 1998. The Upper Atmospheric
Research Collaboratory. Interactions 3 (May): : 48-55. NY: Association for
Computing Machinery.
Feature Article. About Upper Atmospheric Research collaboratory. (UARC). Graphics of
screen, traffic patterns, etc. information article.
Page, Heather. 1998. Remote control. Entrepreneur 62 (October): 149-153.
Overview of products, RULES. netmeeting, other software,
Paton, Graham. 1997. 'Information system' as intellectual construct--its only valid
form. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 14(1) : 67-72.
Critique of the meme of information systems. proposes "holon" instead.
Information and system deconstructed. Information is a particular parcel of knowledge
acquired at a particular moment in time. Objects themselves are NOT information. Info
system is an intellectual construct, its only valid form; computers are the tool. Layers,
like ISO layers for internetworking...depends on what layer you are whether data is
information, etc.
PNL plans environmental research on Internet. 1994. Science 265(5181) : 90.
Pacific Northwest Laboratories announcement
Reed, Daniel A., Roscoe C. Giles and Charles E. Catlett. 1997. Distributed data and
immersive collaboration. Communications of the ACM 40 (November) : 38-48.
Feature article: technical limits, aims, expectations, introduction to concept. History
of computational sciences follows same path as experimental science
¨ Rice, Ronald E., Elizabeth More, and John D'Ambra. 1995.
Cross-cultural comparison of organizational media evaluation and choice. Proceedings of
the 58th ASIS Annual Meeting Vol 32: Forging New Partnerships in Information. Ed.,
Kinney, Tom. Medford NJ: Information Today, Inc.: 189-193.
Research, statistics, analyzes correlation among richness, eqivocality, and
preferences, and differences among means and relationships across four countries.
¨ Robbin, Alice. 1995. SIPP ACCESS, An information
system for complex data: A case studying creating a collaboratory for the social sciences.
Internet Research 5 (November) : 37-66.
Review of NRC 1993 report. Report of infrastructure implementation, report of human
resources in design and implement. and education of users. evaluates selected aspects of
one implementation, examines obstacles to collaboratory development for the social
sciences uses relational database, overview of pre-Wulf collaboratory. "c-cubed"
= communication, cooperation and collaboration.
Roe, Eunice M. 1993. Current affairs and contemporary issues collaboratory: Criteria
for selecting resources. 14th National Online Meeting Proceedings (May). Medford,
NJ: Learned Information : 355-364.
Proposed collab for current affairs and contemporary issues, new skills for librarians.
Sets librarian's criteria for selecting resources to support collab work...electronic.
Develops collaboratory learning model (sphere in pyramid)
"because of the
cognitive nature of the collaboratory, in which information is not just received, but
where it is evaluated and manipulated and knowledge is constructed, usability factor takes
on special importance."(361) Suggests that librarian needs to develop additional
knowledge and skills.
Rome, James A.. 1998. Science from a distance: Molding a virtual laboratory. The
World and I 13 (October) : 182.
Implementation. social issues, MMC use of telemicroscopes, Author from Oak Ridge
National Lab see URL in body of article,
Rosenberg, Lawrence C. 1991. Update on the National Science Foundation funding of the
"collaboratory". Communications of the ACM 34 (December) : 83-88.
Three programs: Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Special Initiative
(CT2), Scientific Databases, Gigabit Network Project. collaboratory, cooperation,
convivial, conflict, control, coercion, counter-productive conformity. "Need a more
substantial shift from technological utopianism to social realism in the CSCW
literature."(87).
Ross-Flanigan, Nancy. 1998. The virtues (and vices) of virtual colleagues. MIT's
Technology Review 101 (March) : 52-59.
Collaborators may generate more ideas, but trust is hard to develop. Human aspects of
working in Collab. Personal benefits and behaviors See URLS for Collabs.
¨ Rugelj, Joze and Viktor Svigelj. 1997. Computer supported
multimedia environment for the support of long-distance collaboration in medicine. Tenth
IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer
Society Press : 215-260.
Architecture of medical collaboratory is designed to enable close ties between the
collaborating partners, to accelerate the development and dissemination of basic
knowledge, and to minimize the time-lag between diagnosis and corresponding treatment.
Ruhleder, Karen and John Leslie King. 1991. Computer support for work across space,
time, and social worlds. Journal of Organizational Computing 1(4) : 341-355.
Examines the assumptions of the model of collaborative work behind the collaboratory.
Success WOULD be worthy prize; challenge is daunting. Two functions: processing and
communication of information. Need integrated functions, to understand social and
organizational factors. "fuzzy social organization" of academic
collaboration
.human glue.
¨ Schooler, E.M. Casner, S. and Postel, J. 1991. Multimedia
conferencing: Has it come of age? 83. USC, Marina del Ray, Information Sciences Institute.
Research report, multimedia teleconferencing as key component of collaboratory,
abstract.
Schrage, Michael. 1991. Computer Tools for Thinking in Tandem. Science 253
(August) : 505-7.
Report...state of the art, articles that get published are really historical things,
creating copresence. the most important mode of collaboration is the literature interact
dynamically and dialectically author of "Shared Minds." More like dialogue than
set of soliloquies, "information cliques," "now the reader can structure
the knowledge."
Science from a distance: security and collaboratories. 1998. The World and I
13(87).
Sheridan, Cormac. 1997. Come into the collaboratory. Technology Ireland 29
(September) : 32-4.
General report from UCD chemistry dept.
¨ Swanson, G. A., Kenneth D. Bailey, and James Grier
Miller. 1997. Entropy, social entropy and money: A living systems theory perspective. Systems
Research and Behavioral Science 14(1) : 45-65.
Research paper, entropy as a measure of system disorganization. How entropy occurs and
is measured in social systems. Role of money-information markers in the recurring
organization and disorganization of social entities is identified as an aspect of social
entropy, integrates living systems theory social entropy theory and macro accounting
theory.
Thomas, Susan Gregory. 1996. Software that turns kids on. US News and World Report
121 (December) : 96-97.
Software. Children.
Towards a national collaboratory: The role of the electric library. 1989. Information
Intelligence, Online Libraries, and Microcomputers 7 (December) : 1-4.
Report on role of Libraries in collaboratory: resources that would use
telecommunications and computer technology to provide remote access to scarce and
expensive national scientific assets as well as provide improved communications among the
scientific community. three-fold research approach for Libraries proposed. Role of
libraries in computer technology, telecommunication infrastructure and tools which would
allow researchers to work with remote facilities (co-laboratory) and each other
(collaborat-ory) as if they were in physical proximity.
¨ Travica, Bob. 1995. Culture of collaboration: An
exploration into the accounting industry. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences IV(5) : 194-199. Eds. Jay F.
Nunamaker, Jr. and Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. Organizational Systems and Technology Track. Los
Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
Research, exploratory study. "Culture of collaboration" among professionals
in accounting firm, dimensions of exchange: knowledge exchange, reliance on colleagues in
gathering information, sharing of accountability within work teams, sharing of trust among
office colleagues, communication over team boundaries, reliance on IT in everyday work
(194).
Wehrwein, Peter. 1998. US National Cancer Institute creates Cancer Genetics Network. Lancet
352 (August) : 460.
Announcement. of new network, cancer-bio. Databased. Internet provided: speed progress.
Weintrab, Hal, et. al. 1995. Through the glass lightly. Science 267 (March) :
1609-1618.
Scientists share their ideas of the future
.to 2005. Genetics, biology,
biochemistry, chemistry, physics.
¨ Wilson, Paul. 1991. Computer supported cooperative work
(CSCW): Origins, concepts and research initiatives. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
23(1-3) : 91-95.
Report . Origins, concepts and research initiatives, origins of CSCW. components of
CSCW. CSCW products. networking requirements and opportunities. Applicability of
collaboratory to Europe.
Wulf, William A. 1989. Government's role in the national network. Educom Review
24(2) : 22-16.
Background of NSFNet development, why collaboratory is important, report following
Rockefeller U workshop. "Analog wet lab" analogy
________. 1993. The collaboratory opportunity. Science 261 (August) : 854-855.
Visualization
rehash of White Paper and Lederberg and Uncapher Report.
See Banks (1993) for rebuttal about history of collab.
Zaluzec, N.J. 1996. Tele-Presence Microscopy/LabSpace: An interactive collaboratory for
use in education and research. Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference 85 :
382-383.
Collab as merely an exercise in computer programming and digital control. Needs for
"real collaboration" to happen.
Ziemba, Stanley. 1996. Ameritech Gives NU $1.8 Million. Chicago Tribune August
21. North Sports Final Edition.
Newspaper article, funding announcement, collaboratory. Northwestern University,
Chicago.
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