[IxDA Discuss] researching researchers

2009-01-15 Thread Maria De Monte
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...

Re: [IxDA Discuss] researching researchers

2009-01-15 Thread Donna M. Fritzsche
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

Re: [IxDA Discuss] researching researchers

2009-01-15 Thread Josiah Johnson
Hi Maria, I don't have anything to contribute to your question, but I'd be very interested to hear what responses you receive. Could you possibly keep me in the loop with the responses you receive? I'd much appreciate it. Thank you, Josiah Johnson University of Washington MSIM Candidate '10 .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] researching researchers

2009-01-15 Thread Renee Rosen-Wakeford
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.