Editor's note.The term collaboratory has not yet found its way into the Oxford
English Dictionary. It appears to have been coined by William Wulf, who
defined it as a "...'center without walls,' in which the nation's researchers can
perform their research without regard to geographical location - interacting with
colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources,
[and] accessing information in digital libraries". (Wulf W.A. Towards a National
Collaboratory. In Joshua Lederberg, and Keith Uncapher, Towards a National
Collaboratory: [Unpublished] report of an Invitational Workshop (Rockefeller
University, New York City, 13-15 March 1989), p. 3) The term is sometimes
used (wrongly it seems) simply to mean a building within which research is
carried on by a number of collaborating units.