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Collaboratories
Over the past two decades, the natural sciences have established so-called “collaboratories” to fulfil similar needs. A collaboratory is a "laboratory without walls", where scientists are connected to each other, to instruments, and to data independent of time and location, hereby creating a virtual community of peers.
Linked to this, the concept of a datahub has been introduced, as a model for coordination of data collection on specific issues. CLIO-INFRA is based on the development of a number of specialised thematic data hubs with a view to encourage data collecting projects and scholars to join the effort. The hubs serve as networks that collect, exchange and peer-review documented data. The data collecting projects -contributing to these hubs- form collaboratories which are peer-groups that share meta-knowledge about the data and work collectively on publications and other forms of research output.
