title: New tools to support collaboration and virtual organizations.
abstract: We describe the use of new eScience tools to support collaboration, including the use of XML data representations to support shared viewing of the information content of data, metadata tools for documenting data and Web 2.0 social networking tools for documenting ideas and the collaboration process. This latter work has led to the development of the http://SciSpace.net Web resource.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Frame
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Austen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Calleja
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Dove
authors.forename: T O H
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000639:trends*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000639:trends*; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000639:trends*; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface