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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Dataset and Sampling Methods. Newmans (2001) social network analyses of scientific communities in biomedicine, physics, and computer science showed that each of these fields formed a well-interconnected or "small world" network (Watts & Strogatz, 1998). First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

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View sample). View sample). For example, the ACLU  and civil libertarians might want to promote use of the tag "safeandfree" to aggregate posts about reforming the Patriot Act. A single tag can be used across platforms to aggregate links, photos, blog posts, and Web pages. Copyright ©2001-2008, CompuMentor.

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