Title
Computer-facilitated collaboration: experiences building SNOMED-RT.
Abstract
Collaborative development involving both individuals and groups is often less efficient than independent development because of communication overhead and integration costs. Despite the decreased development efficiency, collaborations promise more general-purpose products because of the opportunity for integration, with negotiation and reconciliation of diverse perspectives. Collaborations are also perhaps less costly when considered in contexts where there is significant duplication of effort. Computer-facilitated collaboration can reduce the communication and integration burden such that the increased effort required to manage a successful collaboration focuses primarily on the development of shared conceptual model among the developers by requiring that the work product be independently reproducible. This reproducibility requirement incorporates formal quality assurance processes into the development process. In this paper, we describe our initial experiences developing SNOMED-RT using such a computer-facilitated collaborative process. We quantify the extra costs incurred to achieve consistency in our efforts and reproducibility of our results.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1998
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
information management,organizational culture
Field
DocType
Issue
Information management,Conceptual model,Computer science,Organizational culture,Cooperative behavior,Knowledge management,SNOMED CT,Quality assurance,Negotiation
Conference
SUPnan
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1067-5027
2
1.96
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David H. Levy122.30
Robert H. Dolin28917.22
John E. Mattison3227.55
Kent A. Spackman4804106.90
Keith E. Campbell55814.20