A virtual scientific community is a group of people, often researchers and students, who share multiple resources related to the scientific field, and whose main medium of communication is the internet. Examples of such communities include
the Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Portal or the
Biomedical Informatics Research Network
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network, commonly referred among analysts as “BIRN” is a national proposed project to assist biomedical researchers in their bioscience investigations through data sharing and online collaborations. BIRN pro ...
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There are numerous scientific repositories and websites in existence that, while useful, do not meet the definition of a virtual scientific community. Examples of such are data and scientific literature repositories as well as
open access journals
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
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[Jacek M. Zurada, Janusz Wojtusiak, Fahmida Chowdhury, James E. Gentle, Cedric J. Jeannot, and Maciej A. Mazurowski, Computational Intelligence Virtual Community: Framework and Implementation Issues, Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, June 1–6, 2008]
Further reading
* Jacek M. Zurada, Janusz Wojtusiak, Maciej A. Mazurowski,Devendra Mehta, Khalid Moidu, Steve Margolis, Toward Multidisciplinary Collaboration in the CIML Virtual Community, Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Building Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Virtual Organizations, pp. 62–66
See also
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Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
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Community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...
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CIML community portal The computational intelligence and machine learning (CIML) community portal is an international multi-university initiative. Its primary purpose is to help facilitate a virtual scientific community infrastructure for all those involved with, or int ...
External links
The Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Virtual CommunityWhat is BIRN?
References
Virtual communities
Scientific organizations