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

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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). The success criterion had also been explored at a project workshop (SOC, 2001). Technology Issues.