Systems Biology (Methods in Molecular Biology)

The goal was to make individual knowledge understandable

and applicable to the entire network, with the aim of collecting all

the documents and creating a database through a directory and a

search engine, so as to make any relevant piece of information

immediately available.

The COSYSBI Communication Center is a tool for knowledge

management: then, e.g., if the principal aim is to collect as many

documents as possible, to make them easily available, on the other

hand you will have to avoid collecting and preserving all those

documents that become useless and obsolete.

Hence, referring to a hypothetical ongoing research project,

some criteria and some reference group member, with appropriate

experience and acquired knowledge will have to be identified, in

order to make a sort of review and selection of project documenta-

tion. All the details necessary to contact the author of every docu-

ment will be provided: the possibility of a personal dialogue with

whoever is the holder of the special knowledge cannot and should

not be excluded from a system of knowledge management.

Thanks to this organizational system, it was found to be easier

to maintain consistency and continuity in the analysis of knowledge

and documentation collected by the group.

The logical model of COSYSBI Communication Center is

shown in Fig. 1

2.2 Current
Molecular Imaging
Lab Activities

The COSYSBI framework is used not only for data and document

management but also for access to computing resources and imag-

ing software (seeNote 1).

Service

platform

Communication

channel

Document

management

Community

Activity

support

Collaborative

work

Forum, chat, istant

messaging, ecc..

Fig. 1Logical schematic of COSYSBI Communication Center

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