- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
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1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication -
2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration? -
3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories -
4 A Theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration -
5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries -
6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory -
7 The National Virtual Observatory -
8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations -
9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory -
10 Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment -
11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program -
12 The Biomedical Informatics Research Network -
13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers -
14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach -
15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Research -
16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program -
17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network -
18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development -
19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program -
20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries - Conclusion Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories?
- Contributors
- Index
The National Virtual Observatory
The National Virtual Observatory
- Chapter:
- (p.135) 7 The National Virtual Observatory
- Source:
- Scientific Collaboration on the Internet
- Author(s):
Mark S. Ackerman
Erik C. Hofer
Robert J. Hanisch
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter describes how the National Virtual Observatory (NVO) project promotes collaborative scientific research studies. The NVO has been funded by the National Science Foundation to establish the required cyberinfrastructure for supporting the creation of several astronomical data sets. These astronomical data sets allow researchers to search multiple data sets and develop simulations that incorporate different kinds of astronomical data. The NVO expects to help in combining multiple point-observation telescopes and sky surveys into a unified data set by developing the necessary tools and standardized data models. The chapter finds that the unified data set functions as an efficient broadband worldwide telescope to fulfill the objectives of the NVO.
Keywords: cyberinfrastructure, astronomical data set, researchers, telescope, sky surveys
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 E-Science, Cyberinfrastructure, and Scholarly Communication -
2 Cyberscience: The Age of Digitized Collaboration? -
3 From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories -
4 A Theory of Remote Scientific Collaboration -
5 Collaborative Research across Disciplinary and Organizational Boundaries -
6 A National User Facility That Fits on Your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory -
7 The National Virtual Observatory -
8 High-Energy Physics: The Large Hadron Collider Collaborations -
9 The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory and the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory -
10 Evaluation of a Scientific Collaboratory System: Investigating Utility before Deployment -
11 The National Institute of General Medical Sciences Glue Grant Program -
12 The Biomedical Informatics Research Network -
13 Three Distributed Biomedical Research Centers -
14 Motivation to Contribute to Collaboratories: A Public Goods Approach -
15 Ecology Transformed: The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis and the Changing Patterns of Ecological Research -
16 The Evolution of Collaboration in Ecology: Lessons from the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Program -
17 Organizing for Multidisciplinary Collaboration: The Case of the Geosciences Network -
18 NEESgrid: Lessons Learned for Future Cyberinfrastructure Development -
19 International AIDS Research Collaboratories: The HIV Pathogenesis Program -
20 How Collaboratories Affect Scientists from Developing Countries - Conclusion Final Thoughts: Is There a Science of Collaboratories?
- Contributors
- Index
