researching researchers

Hi Maria,
The predecessor of the global internet, the ARPANET, was in part created to
aid government researched in exchanging information/tools/etc. So this would
be a very early resource to look into.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet

In the government and corporations, related researchers often participate in
Communities of Practice (CoP)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoP

You might research this term and see what it turn up.
Hope this is helpful.
Donna

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:08:01 +0000 (GMT), Maria De Monte wrote
> Hello folks,
>
> I've been targeting researchers for the development of an online
> cooperative tool lately, and discovered how hard it is to find
> informations on researchers as users.
>
> It seems like "the sacred world of science and research" is out of
> any schema, any sort of question, anything...
>
> Do anyone of you have any info about researcher as web tools users?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maria
>
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Maria,

It's maybe slightly tangently related, but UCLIC has been doing research
into the use of digital libraries:

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/uclic/annb/DLUsability/UCIS.html

As many of the users of digital libraries are researchers, you might find
something of use from their publications. There's info about specific
projects on the website, and if you needed to contact someone about it, Ann
Blandford is the one in charge of the project.

Hope this is of some help.

Renee

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Maria De Monte <mtdemonte at yahoo.it> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I've been targeting researchers for the development of an online
> cooperative tool lately, and discovered how hard it is to find informations
> on researchers as users.
>
> It seems like "the sacred world of science and research" is out of any
> schema, any sort of question, anything...
>
> Do anyone of you have any info about researcher as web tools users?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Maria
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
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> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe
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