Services Design in a Collaborative Network for Multidisciplinary Research Projects

Abstract

Abstract. Providing information management services for multi-disciplinary research projects presents scientific, technological and communication challenges: constant change of themes and objects of scientific studies, entangled privacy and ownership requirements along with rapidly evolving methods of analysis and ways to look at data call for a highly dynamic communication and data service. We will present a case study of a collaborative network (simbioms.org). SIMBioMS, founded in 2005, develops open source software and provides data management services in biomedical research through four academic organisations and one company.