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SIPP ACCESS, an information system for complex data: a case study in creating a collaboratory for the social sciences

Alice Robbin (Associate Professor in the Public Policy Program of the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, New York City, New York, and Adjunct Professor in the PhD Sociology Program, Graduate Center/City University of New York. Previously, she was senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison, where she was a Co‐director and Co‐principal Investigator of the SIPP ACCESS project at the Institute for Research on Poverty.)

Internet Research

ISSN: 1066-2243

Article publication date: 1 June 1995

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Abstract

The “collaboratory” concept has recently entered the vernacular of the scientific community to reflect new modes of scientific communication, cooperation and collaboration made possible by information technology. The collaboratory represents a scientific research center “without walls” for accessing and sharing data, information, instrumentation and computational resources. The principal applications of the collaboratory concept have been in the physical and biological sciences, including space physics, oceanography and molecular biology. Discusses the attributes of the collaboratory, and applies the concept developed by computer and physical scientists to the design and operation of the SIPPACCESS prototype information system for complex data to be used through the Internet by sociologists, demographers and economists. Examines obstacles to collaboratory development for the social sciences. Concludes that four major obstacles will inhibit the development of collaboratories in the social sciences.

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Robbin, A. (1995), "SIPP ACCESS, an information system for complex data: a case study in creating a collaboratory for the social sciences", Internet Research, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 37-66. https://doi.org/10.1108/10662249510094777

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