NDLI: Peer-to-peer and group collaboration do they always match?

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Eikemeier, C. Lechner, U.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Bremen Univ., Germany (Eikemeier, C.; Lechner, U.)
Abstract	Online collaboration systems allow workers to cooperate and communicate with each other even if working in dispersed settings. They enable frictionless sharing of explicit and implicit knowledge. Several applications that implement a support media for team and group collaboration are implemented and already used for a long time. Since some time Peer-to-peer based tools are a serious alternative to those established applications of client/server type. They seem to provide better services at even lower costs. But there are important but commonly not recognized differences between the particular types of P2P applications. This demands for further research, in particular on nontechnical aspects. The paper provides a research frame to enable covering descriptions of P2P tools from different views. The frame includes a data/content, a user/community and a contextual view besides other more common focii. As example Groove.net, a commercially available P2P collaboration tool suite is explained along the research frame. Teams vs. communities are rarely in the focus of P2P research. Even if these parameters seem to be highly relevant in practical use as they separate different classes of P2P systems they are rarely mentioned as distinctive characteristics. The paper uses data from a research survey among teams that use Groove for their teamwork. It shows that not all P2P tools fit to the needs of every size of group. Groove seems to support teams but does not match the demands of communities. As well one can state that communities need their own type of P2P tools for efficient support of the collaboration processes. Therefore the proposed research frame offers valuable pointers to aspects that need to be considered in discussions - in this case it points to the users of the system.
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	106
File Size	241515
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769521835
ISSN	15244547
DOI	10.1109/ENABL.2004.49
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2004-06-14
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Peer to peer computing Collaborative work Collaborative tools Mathematics Computer science Online Communities/Technical Collaboration Application software Costs Teamwork Information systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Hardware and Architecture Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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