Title: Scientific Collaboration on the Internet
This is an edited collection of works on the progress in cyberinfrastructure and cyberscience to support distributed research across global research networks. Includes background on terminology (e.g. the difference between an extended research group and a collaboratory); results from successes and failures in subject-specific and multidiscipinary collaborations and data sharing projects; interviews with designers and participants; and an ontology of collaboration types that have been tried in the sciences across some 200 projects. I'm only into the first few chapters but is a great read so far. I was particularly struck by a concept put forward by Michael Nentwich that cyberscience is science that takes place in a the medium of information and communication technology as opposed to the traditional physical medium or cognitive medium (thoughtspace).
There's also a local contributor (University of Washington), Dr. Matthew Bietz.
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