1. Academic Collaboration Environment Christine J. Jones Colleen S. Whitney May 12, 2006

2. Academic Collaboration Environment2 Problem  Diverse resources and tools for: –gathering –organizing –sharing  Needs vary from: –discipline to discipline –individual to individual

3. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment3 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

4. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment4 Project Phases  Preliminary project scope  Literature review  Needs assessment  Comparative tool survey  Information modeling  Refined scope and requirements  Architecture  Lightweight prototype

5. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment5 Literature Review  Networked applications  Digital libraries  Computer-mediated communication (CMC)  Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)  Scholarly work practice

6. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment6 User Needs Assessment  Defined audience  Conducted interviews  Created personas  Constructed use cases and scenarios

7. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment7 Comparative Technology  Surveyed existing tools  Assessed them based on broad functional groupings  Considered each for integration into ACE

8. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment8 Functional Groupings  Search: –Scholar’s Box  Object/project management: –Firefox Scholar, Web Scrapbook  Sharing/reusing content –RefWorks/RefShare, Student Vision

9. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment9 Functional Groupings  Annotating/tagging/bookmarking –CiteULike, Connotea  Collaboration –Sakai, Bspace  Personalization/customization –Zojam, Protopage

10. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment10 Information Modeling  Broader community –REST, SOAP –OpenSearch  Library community –SRU, SRW –Z39.50 –OAI

11. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment11 Results: Structure  Web pages –URL –Description –Title  Bibliographic records –ISBN/ISSN –Title(s) –Author(s) –Publication date –Publisher –Notes –Language –Format –...

12. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment12 Results: Schemas  Custom XML schemas  MarcXML  MODS  Dublin Core

13. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment13 Requirements  Defined terminology: –Search tool –Item –Project –Collection  Prioritized functionality

14. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment14 Requirements  Core: –Personalized Workspace –Search –Save and annotate items –Manage personal projects

15. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment15 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

16. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment16 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

17. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment17 Requirements  Nice –Locate new searchable resources by browsing or searching

18. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment18 Overview

19. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment19 ACE Prototype  Lightweight prototype  Core functionality only  MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript

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25. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment25 Challenges  Defining a common language  Scoping the project  Technical challenges  Prioritization

26. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment26 Future Work  Iterative UI Design  Integrate local items  Enhanced export and rendering  Support for sharing and collaboration

27. May 12, 2006Academic Collaboration Environment27 Thanks to.....  Ray Larson  Anya Kartavenko  Minakshi Mukherjee  Kim Carl  Peter Brantley  Patricia Martin