Cooperative Design, Development, and Management of Interdisciplinary Data to Support the Global Environmental Change Research Community

This article describes the organizational, collaborative, and project management processes of a scientific data center that serves the interdisciplinary global environmental change research community. Collaborating with representatives of the user community, the data center identifies, acquires, ing...

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Published inScience & technology libraries (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 5 - 19
Main Authors Downs, Robert R., Chen, Robert S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 10.05.2004
Subjects
collaborative development
Communities
Computer programs
Data center
Desks
digital library
Digital systems
earth science data
Education
interdisciplinary research
Management
On-line systems
participatory design
research-related information
scientific communities
Software
user community
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Summary:This article describes the organizational, collaborative, and project management processes of a scientific data center that serves the interdisciplinary global environmental change research community. Collaborating with representatives of the user community, the data center identifies, acquires, ingests, manages, and disseminates research-related information (RRI), such as scientific data and documents. Users and software developers cooperatively design online applications that integrate these resources into a wide variety of information products and services to be disseminated through a digital library to the globally dispersed community. Results from these participatory design and cooperative development activities include Web-based resource catalogs, training, peer education, help desk, and reference services to support scientific communication and decision-making among members of the interdisciplinary community.
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ISSN:0194-262X
1541-1109
DOI:10.1300/J122v23n04_02