Deep Collaboration

Scope | Individual Responsibility | Group Cohesion | Results

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