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Collaboration and Knowledge Development


see also Online Resource Development | Standards

Collaboration across disciplines and between institutions is at the heart of the vision behind the Biosphere Project. Among our main goals are to support discussion and tool-sharing. There can and should be a broader conversation, among active researchers and web developers working in environmental informatics, about techniques for exchanging and searching for environmental data, about what works and what doesn't, and about areas that could use more exploration.

Please contact us with any suggestions for content and links to incorporate into the Collaboration areas of the Biosphere site.

Forum - Make comments, ask questions, or post links to datasets and resources you want to share
Test Bed - Try new tools
News Sharing - Tools to pull in content from many sources
Knowledge Mapping - Connect ideas and resources across disciplines

Open Source and the Sciences
This article, from The American Prospect's After Microsoft: the Open Source Society issue, explores some of the benefits and potential pitfalls of drawing on Open Source techniques to advance knowledge development in the life sciences, focusing on the development of NIH's PubMed Central.

Locales Framework for Evaluating Collaboration Software
This paper discusses the evaluation of collaboration spaces

News

XML Developments
The Biosphere Project's XML page describes the standard and lists important recent developments in XML

New Test Bed tools
Please try them out!

New Biodiversity Resource (BIOSIS)
BIOSIS has developed a gateway to online Biodiversity resources

Top 50 new links
From the European Environmental Information and Observation NETwork (EIONET)

Biodiversity/Wildlife Reports and Articles
From SciCentral.com

Environmental News from Moreover.com

 

 

 

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