Ciência 2.0

A autora desse blog está em imersão na pesquisa de mestrado. Passos finais e prioridades rígidas…. It means, prioridade 1: pesquisa; prioridade 2: pesquisa; prioridade 3: pesquisa.

Hoje, o Carlos Nepomuceno compartilhou via twitter, matéria do Wall Street Journal, abordando a colaboração científica via Web, tema da minha pesquisa.

Me desculpo pelo post “copy-paste” (pelas razões já expostas), mas achei interessante compartilhar, mesmo sem os meus devidos comentários.

Também me desculpo por não ter tempo de verter o texto para o portugês. Esse é um blog “brasileirinho” com muita honra, assim, dou preferência ao nosso idioma, mas dessa vez vamos no original…

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SCIENCE JOURNAL
NOVEMBER 23, 2009More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team SportMassive Collider, a Global Collaboration, Has a Bumpy Start; but Sometimes the Work of Crowds Yields Wisdom

 

• By ROBERT LEE HOTZ

If all goes well, researchers Friday may power up the Large Hadron Collider — a $6 billion particle accelerator near Geneva. The atom smasher is so large that a brief status report lists 2,900 authors, so complex that scientists in 34 countries have readied 100,000 computers to process its data, and so fragile that a bird dropping a bread crust can short-circuit its power supply — as occurred earlier this month.

Far from trouble-free, the proton accelerator is resuming operations after a catastrophic breakdown in 2008 that triggered a year of repairs and recriminations. Its large research teams operate on such an elaborate scale that project management has become one of science’s biggest challenges.

Around the world, scientists are cutting across boundaries of place, organization and technical specialty to conduct ever more ambitious experiments. Inspired by such cooperative enterprises as Linux and Wikipedia, they are encouraging creative collaborations through networks of blogs, wikis, shared databases and crowd-sourcing.

Once a mostly solitary endeavor, science in the 21st century has become a team sport. Research collaborations are larger, more common, more widely cited and more influential than ever, management studies show. Measured by the number of authors on a published paper, research teams have grown steadily in size and number every year since World War II. Leia o resto deste post »