Science Collaboration Framework

The Science Collaboration Framework (SCF) is a software toolkit to establish web-based virtual team organizations for researchers in biomedicine. It enables researchers to publish and discuss on-line content such as articles, news, and perspectives, and to provide shared semantic context for this content using established scientific vocabularies and automated text mining. SCF is reusable open source software based on the popular Drupal content management system, with many new modules to support biomedical researchers and access to RDF "linked data". SCF supports scientists in publishing, annotating, sharing and discussing content such as articles, perspectives, interviews and news items, as well as providing personal biographies, formal and informal bibliographies, and asserting research interests. It also supports shared databases of key research resources, and private research workspaces.