Remove Instant Messaging Remove Repository Remove Social Networking Remove Wikipedia
article thumbnail

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." The Protein Databank (PDB) is the single worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D structure data of large molecules of proteins and nucleic acids (Berman, Bourne, & Westbrook, 2004).