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Everything about Collaboratory

Type of research environment

A collaboratory, as defined by William Wulf in 1989, is a “center without walls, in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to physical location, interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources, [and] accessing information in digital libraries”. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: CollaboratoryA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Potential bias and lack of generalizability in electronic health record data: reflections on health equity from the National Institutes of Health Pragmatic Trials CollaboratoryInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Caso Ci Ha Reso Colleghi Ma IIl Divertimento e le Risate Ci Ha Reso AmiciThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Electronic health records based phenotyping in next-generation clinical trials: a perspective from the NIH Health Care Systems Collaboratory: Table 1Cited 187 times
  5. Go sideways: Computer-supported cooperative workA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Collaborative decision-making softwareA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Adjective That is involved in, or aids collaboration; collaborative

Noun A networked organization in which scientists can collaborate

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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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