This paper presents our work in the design and development of collaborative platforms to support distributed scientific collaborations in a national biosecurity laboratory which carries out diagnostics and research work in animal diseases. We have focused on two types of collaboration challenges. One is the “distributed” collaborations between scientists working inside the physical containment areas and scientists working in the general office area within the laboratory. The second is the collaborative diagnosis and decision-making work between this laboratory and other organizations working on the responses of emergency animal diseases. The “biosecurity collaboration platform” which addresses the first challenge has been implemented and used by the scientists in the laboratory. The platform integrates shared digital workspaces and supports the sharing and interaction of scientific data from various resources and laboratory instruments (e.g. microscopes). The “secure collaboration platform” which addresses the second challenge is an extension of the biosecurity collaboration platform and integrates eAuthentication and eAuthorization technologies to support secure communication and information sharing between experts from different organizations. Results from user studies have shown that the collaboration platforms can provide core capabilities of communication, trustworthy information sharing and access to real-time data from scientific instruments in complex collaborations in the biosecurity domain.

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生物安全实验室内和跨不同组织的分布式协作实验室

本文介绍了我们在设计和开发协作平台方面的工作，以支持国家生物安全实验室的分布式科学合作，该实验室开展动物疾病的诊断和研究工作。我们专注于两种类型的协作挑战。一是在物理隔离区域内工作的科学家与在实验室内一般办公区域内工作的科学家之间的“分布式”合作。二是本实验室与其他从事动物紧急疾病应对工作的组织的协同诊断和决策工作。解决第一个挑战的“生物安全协作平台”已被实验室的科学家实施和使用。该平台集成了共享的数字工作空间，并支持来自各种资源和实验室仪器（例如显微镜）的科学数据的共享和交互。解决第二个挑战的“安全协作平台”是生物安全协作平台的扩展，集成了电子身份验证和电子授权技术，以支持不同组织专家之间的安全通信和信息共享。用户研究结果表明，协作平台可以在生物安全领域的复杂协作中提供通信、可信信息共享和从科学仪器获取实时数据的核心能力。解决第二个挑战的“安全协作平台”是生物安全协作平台的扩展，集成了电子身份验证和电子授权技术，以支持不同组织专家之间的安全通信和信息共享。用户研究结果表明，协作平台可以在生物安全领域的复杂协作中提供通信、可信信息共享和从科学仪器获取实时数据的核心能力。解决第二个挑战的“安全协作平台”是生物安全协作平台的扩展，集成了电子身份验证和电子授权技术，以支持不同组织专家之间的安全通信和信息共享。用户研究结果表明，协作平台可以在生物安全领域的复杂协作中提供通信、可信信息共享和从科学仪器获取实时数据的核心能力。