Knowledge Management for Distributed Scientific Project Teams

摘要

Managing the information generated during the course of a scientific investigation is both a challenging and an essential task for NASA scientists. During an investigation, experimental records must be kept up-to-date and made accessible to all members of a scientific team. After an investigation, a thorough set of records is essential for historical documentation, reproducibility, and overall scientific credibility . These information-management requirements are particularly challenging when scientific work is carried out by large, geographically distributed teams, but even for small, collocated teams or individual scientists, knowledge management has become a time-consuming, frustrating exercise. Ames researchers are developing a suite of sophisticated information-sharing tools to address these complex knowledge-management issues.