From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories
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JULY 24, 2008
Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." First, scientific knowledge is difficult to aggregate. The culture of independence benefits science in many ways, but it also makes it more difficult to aggregate scientists labors. Definition.
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