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1. Tweet Commentsor Questions: @L_Vowell @LynnJD #GL13ScienceForums #GL13conf Communities for Science colleagues Lance Vowell Program Manager Contractor to DOE/OSTI Information International Associates (IIa) Lynn Davis Program Liaison, MLS DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)

2. background Motivation/Justification Hypothesis that Web 2.0 technologies can promote: • Collaboration • Information exchange • Global networking among scientists (peer-to-peer) • Scientific discovery and innovation

3. background Motivation/Justification (cont’d.) • We believed that scientific researchers would want to collaborate in a different manner than that provided by the typical social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Second Life or Twitter • We also wanted the system to support a broad range of both published and grey information types such as technical reports, theses, research notes, research papers in progress

4. Phase i Primary Goal Speed the diffusion of scientific knowledge by enabling improved web 2.0 communications among scientific and research communities. • Ease implementation of peer-to-peer communications • Enable informal content creation of both comments and discussion • Create formal published and grey literature • Provide mechanisms to access, import, share, view, and cite other published and grey literature

5. Phase i Other Potential Benefits • Facilitate retrieval of scientific and technical information by librarians and other informationprofessionals • Apply concept to traditional government research agencies, universities, pharmaceutical companies, and all organizations involved in scientific research

6. User/Subject Matter Expert Input Sought • Interviewed hand-selectedFocus Group • Identified larger group to provide periodic feedback Phase i

7. Major Focus Areas During 3 years of research: • Determined high-level requirements for system • Simplicity and ease of use • Information security • Conducted survey of commercial off-the-shelf/open source systems • Produced prototype for evaluation Phase i

8. Prototype Development • Noted considerable change in landscape of peer-to-peer collaboration between Phase I and Phase II surveys • Determined significant number of shareware or open source products were highly customizable and would meet many of the project requirements out-of-the-box Phase Ii

9. Technology • Platform: Considered Ning, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla!, Taverna and SupportMaster; Drupal was chosen Phase Ii

10. Technology (cont’d.) • Web-based content management system: Research and development led to building a system to enable self-forming groups, where researchers can create usefulweb-based communities around scientific topics of interest to those groups Phase Ii

11. Technology (cont’d.) • Open Access Standards: Chosen to import documents to the Library sincea primary function of the system is a repository (library) for scientific research information Phase Ii

12. Beta • “Science-Forums.net”: The name given the website and system bythe Project Team Phase Ii

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20. Tweet Commentsor Questions: @L_Vowell @LynnJD #GL13ScienceForums #GL13conf Lance Vowell Program Manager Contractor to DOE/OSTI Information International Associates (IIa) (865) 576-2087 VowellL@osti.gov Communities for Science colleagues Lynn Davis Program Liaison, MLS DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) (865) 241-6435 DavisL@osti.gov