Deep Collaboration

 

 

Scope | Individual Responsibility | Group Cohesion | Results

Shared Information Resources & Tools

 

 

Shared Information Resources & Tools

 

The technologies required for successful collaboration each need to support specific collaboration activities.

 

 

Information

 

Central Information Repository – For all the information required for the Start of Collaboration Statement and for access to all other resources.

 

Glossary – A continuously up-datable glossary system

 

Collaboration Product – A continuously updated knowledge work product where anyone can access the status of any part of the project. This is what Doug Engelbart called the Handbook.

 

 

Time

 

Chronolog/Timeline – Communications, including  meetings notes.

 

Action Item Tracking System – A system to track what needs to be done, by whom, by when.

 

Calendar – What happens when.

 

Shared status – Who is available and how are they doing.

 

 

Communication

 

Real Time – Means for holding physical and real-world meetings.

 

Asynchronous – System for messaging, such as email.

 

Documents – Means to produce, link/cite and share documents.

 

 

Foundational Requirement Aspirations

 

These technological infrastructures should ideally:

 

  • Allow for rich, quickly accessible Citations.
  • Allow for real-time annotations and temporal references, as we are attempting with the Time Browser Project.
  • Inter-operability as much as possible, such as through sneaking meta-data as URLs, as discussed in the post on Smart Symbols & URLs