講題：Scientific collaboratories: Needs and challenges.
主講人：Professor Diane H. Sonnenwald
日期：2008.4.28(一)，6:30-9:00pm
地點：國立台灣大學圖書資訊學系1F視聽室
演講內容簡介：
Scientific collaboration continues to increase in frequency and importance. It has the potential to solve complex scientific problems and promote various political, economic and social agendas, such as democracy, sustainable development, and cultural understanding and integration. Increasingly, public and private research funding agencies require interdisciplinary, international and inter-institutional collaboration. Scientific collaboratories, allowing scientists both known and unknown to each other to interact and share tools, data, and other artifacts, have emerged as one new way of conducting scientific collaboration across geographic distances. In this talk, Dr. Sonnenwald will present examples of collaboratories that she and her colleagues established, and discuss the challenges and solutions that emerged in the collaboratories.
Professor Diane H. Sonnenwald簡介：
Diane H. Sonnenwald is currently the Director of Center for Collaborative Innovation and Professor of The Swedish School of Information & Library Science Goteborg University & University College of Boras in Sweden.
She is also an Affiliate Professor of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in USA.
Dr. Sonnenwald is a well-known international scholar, especially with extensive experiences in the area of collaboration research. She has been the recipient of many grants and special awards from both US and European government agencies and organizations throughout her academic career, and her substantial publications appear in top journals in LIS and other scientific communities.
Dr. Sonnenwald conducts and supervises research on collaboration in a variety of contexts. This includes: investigating how socio-organizational practices and technology impact collaboration; examining information behavior in collaborative situations; and, the design and evaluation of technology to facilitate collaboration. The overall goal of her research is to enable more effective collaboration. She has also taught the courses and workshops on research methods, theory development, systems analysis and design, and scientific collaboration.
For more information on Diane H. Sonnenwald’s research and teaching interests, please visit her website: http://spruce.bhs.hb.se/dis/