Archived Talks

University of Pittsburgh Department of Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series

“Supporting Emerging Disciplines with e-Communities: Needs and Benefits”
Speaker: Heiko Spallek, DMD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Center for Dental Informatics
School of Dental Medicine

Friday, September 7, 2007
11:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
Room M-184 VALE [?]
200 Meyran Avenue

Abstract: Science has developed from a solitary pursuit into a team-based collaborative activity and, more recently, into a multidisciplinary research enterprise. The increasingly collaborative character of science, mandated by complex research questions and problems that require many competencies, requires that researchers lower the barriers to the creation of collaborative networks of experts, such as Communities of Practice. The colloquium will focus on the research method used to assess the information needs of prospective members of a CoP in an emerging field, dental informatics. We will discuss how to evaluate prospective members’ expectations of an e-community in order to design a suitable electronic infrastructure.

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