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Award Abstract #0534909

spacer Collaborative Research: Social Networking Tools to Enable Collaboration in the Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network (TSEEN)

NSF Org: IIS
Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
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Initial Amendment Date: March 7, 2006
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Latest Amendment Date: March 24, 2008
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Award Number: 0534909
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Award Instrument: Continuing grant
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Program Manager: Vijayalakshmi Atluri
IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
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Start Date: March 15, 2006
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Expires: February 28, 2011 (Estimated)
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Awarded Amount to Date: $247,580.00
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Investigator(s): Katy Borner katy@indiana.edu (Principal Investigator)
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Sponsor: Indiana University
509 E 3RD ST
Bloomington, IN 47401-3654 (812)855-0516
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NSF Program(s): DIGITAL GOVERNMENT,
INFO INTEGRATION & INFORMATICS
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Program Reference Code(s): 1706, 9216, HPCC, 9200, 7364, 9102
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Program Element Code(s): 1706, 7364

ABSTRACT
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A highly publicized report by the American Cancer Society noted that cancer has surpassed heart disease to become the number one killer of adults under the age of 85 in the United States today. At the top of the list was lung cancer, a disease that is eminently preventable. Addressing public health threats like cancer are acute, system-wide challenges that would benefit from network-centric approaches. For example, when the tobacco research community realized it had taken over a decade to discover that they had already collected substantial empirical evidence, distributed across its network of tobacco researchers, indicating that 'light' (low-tar/low-nicotine brands) cigarettes reduced neither exposure to nor risk of cancer, researchers began to understand the importance of effectively sharing resources and information across the entire community. In response, government agencies involved in public health have made a substantial foundational investment in developing a digital government cyberinfrastructure--Tobacco Systems integration Grid (TobacSIG)--to enable collaboration within the Tobacco Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation Network (TSEEN). While such an underlying cyberinfrastructure is a prerequisite, delays in discoveries (such as the carcinogenic effects of 'light' cigarette mentioned above) have prompted the TSEEN community to underscore the need for social network referral tools as a crucial component of any effort to enhance the efficacy of their collaboration system.


PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

Brner, Katy, Hardy, Elisha F., Herr II, Bruce W., Holloway, Todd & Paley, W. Bradford.. "Taxonomy Visualization in Support of the Semi-Automatic Validation and Optimization of Organizational Schemas," Journal of Infometrics, v.1, 2007, p. 214.

Börner, Katy, Hardy, Elisha F., Herr II, Bruce W., Holloway, Todd & Paley, W. Bradford.. "Taxonomy Visualization in Support of the Semi-Automatic Validation and Optimization of Organizational Schemas," Journal of Informetrics, v.1, 2007, p. 214.

La Rowe, Gavin, Sumeet Adinath Ambre, John W. Burgoon, Weimao Ke & Katy Börner. "The Scholarly Database and Its Utility for Scientometrics Research. Scientometrics," Scientometrics, v.79, 2009, p. 219.

Börner, Katy, Huang, Weixia (Bonnie), Linnemeier, Micah, Duhon, Russell Jackson, Phillips, Patrick, Ma, Nianli, Zoss, Angela, Guo, Hanning & Price, Mark. "Rete-Netzwerk-Red: Analyzing and Visualizing Scholarly Networks Using the Network Workbench Tool," Scientometrics, v.Springe, 2010, p. x.

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