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... So a physical environment existed for creating collaboratories. Moreover, a community composed primarily of psychologists was beginning to study the sociology entailed in computer-supported cooperative science and engineering research.
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... But the predominant reason for the slow pace in moving toward collaboratories was the relatively low demand from the research community: practicing scientists did not fully understand or appreciate the potential. And since the benefits were not obvious, they were not willing to allocate scarce research dollars for developing the needed but not well-defined tools.
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... One of my favorite prototypes for illustrating how collaboratories can change the nature and quality of science is the Space Physics and Aeronomy Research Collaboratory.2 This facility is a multidisciplinary research collaboration that allows scientists from globally dispersed sites to participate in team science and education projects. In 1993 we prepared a report entitled National Coliaboratories: Applying Information Technologyfor Scientific Research.
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... Cooperative research projects that rely on electronic tools, whether called collaboratories or not, will occur as the natural evolution of today's research. The only question is whether we will build collaboratories more or less quickly, whether we will build them to interoperate, and whether we will develop standards that help leverage the results.
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