Sci-Share: Social Networking Adapted for Distributed Scientific Collaboration, Phase I

Completed

Description

Our goal is to develop a social networking site with novel, specially designed feature sets to enable simultaneous remote collaboration and sharing of large data sets among scientists. This site, called Sci-Share, will include not only the standard features found on popular consumer oriented social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace but also a number of powerful tools to extend its functionality to a science collaboration site.

Details

Technology area	Communications, Navigation, and Orbital Debris Tracking and Characterization Systems > Internetworking > Adaptive Network Topology
Program	Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
Lead organization	Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Start date	2009-01-22
End date	2009-07-22

How to get involved

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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