Unidata: A Virtual Community Sharing Resources via Technological Infrastructure
- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Vol. 78 (3) , 457-468
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1997)078<0457:uavcsr>2.0.co;2
Abstract
In initiating the Unidata Program, scientists hoped to meet common needs for accessing and using atmospheric data in education and research using state-of-the-art technology. As communications technologies have advanced, Unidata has increasingly become a "virtual community" in which participants cooperate, collaborate, and share a variety of resources, including data. The Unidata experience—how it resembles and differs from other concepts of location-independent collaborations—may serve as a model for building and supporting communities of researchers and educators with common needs for data and the tools to use them.Keywords
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