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Academic Collaboration Environment
Christine J. JonesColleen S. Whitney
May 12, 2006
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 2
Problem
Diverse resources and tools for:– gathering– organizing– sharing
Needs vary from:– discipline to discipline– individual to individual
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Project Overview: Goal Architecture to support academic
community Support multiple tasks:
– Search multiple, diverse resources – Manage resources – Add metadata– Share lists and annotations with others – Reuse and extend material
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 4
Project Phases Preliminary project scope Literature review Needs assessment Comparative tool survey Information modeling Refined scope and requirements Architecture Lightweight prototype
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Literature Review
Networked applications Digital libraries Computer-mediated communication (CMC) Computer-supported cooperative work
(CSCW) Scholarly work practice
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 6
User Needs Assessment Defined audience Conducted interviews Created personas Constructed use cases and scenarios
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Comparative Technology
Surveyed existing tools Assessed them based on broad functional
groupings Considered each for integration into ACE
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Functional Groupings
Search: – Scholar’s Box
Object/project management: – Firefox Scholar, Web Scrapbook
Sharing/reusing content– RefWorks/RefShare, Student Vision
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Functional Groupings
Annotating/tagging/bookmarking– CiteULike, Connotea
Collaboration– Sakai, Bspace
Personalization/customization– Zojam, Protopage
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 10
Information Modeling
Broader community– REST, SOAP – OpenSearch
Library community– SRU, SRW – Z39.50 – OAI
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Results: Structure
Web pages– URL– Description– Title
Bibliographic records– ISBN/ISSN– Title(s)– Author(s)– Publication date– Publisher– Notes– Language– Format– ...
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Results: Schemas
Custom XML schemas MarcXML MODS Dublin Core
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Requirements
Defined terminology:– Search tool– Item– Project– Collection
Prioritized functionality
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 14
Requirements
Core:– Personalized Workspace– Search– Save and annotate items– Manage personal projects
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 15
Requirements
Important:– View selected items in multiple formats– Create, customize default list of searchable
resources– Export metadata– Search the workspace (within or across
projects) for specific items
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Requirements
Desirable– Create, customize tailored lists of searchable
resources– Create and manage user groups– Share projects with one or more groups (read,
read/write access) – Invoke a browser bookmarklet to add a new
item to one or more projects while browsing
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May 12, 2006 Academic Collaboration Environment 17
Requirements
Nice– Locate new searchable resources by
browsing or searching
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Overview
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ACE Prototype
Lightweight prototype Core functionality only MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript
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Challenges
Defining a common language Scoping the project Technical challenges Prioritization
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Future Work
Iterative UI Design Integrate local items Enhanced export and rendering Support for sharing and collaboration
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Thanks to.....
Ray Larson Anya Kartavenko Minakshi Mukherjee Kim Carl Peter Brantley Patricia Martin