NDLI: Collaboration as a second thought

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Hereld, M. Papka, M.E. Uram, T.D.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Math. & Comput. Sci. Div., Argonne Nat. Lab., Argonne, IL (Hereld, M.; Papka, M.E.; Uram, T.D.)
Abstract	Collaboration is often an afterthought to a project or development. In this paper we describe and analyze our experiences in developing collaborative technologies, most often involving the sharing of visual information. We have often developed these in a context that required us to retrofit existing analysis applications with collaboration capabilities. This approach, though fruitful, is time-consuming, expensive, and often difficult to re-apply elsewhere - it is just hard to change an existing application. One way to make such an effort easier is to package the collaborative components as a kit that can be leveraged on a case-by-case basis. The fixed interface provided by a well-designed toolkit eases the integration process by providing an unchanging and familiar set of components to deploy. Better still, we find, are approaches that require no modification of applications while providing rich and powerful means for sharing information with collaborators. We discuss three separate and illuminating examples that meet this criterion in different ways: (1) building the collaborative potential into the underlying abstractions on which operating systems are built, (2) building tools that live side-by-side with any application in the context provided by the operating system, or by (3) building information tools that use collaborative modalities to better integrate with our workflow. These are probably not the only options, but they all derive from an approach where collaboration is considered early in the design process and therefore manifests itself deep in the computing infrastructure giving it a wider cast.
Starting Page	196
Ending Page	202
File Size	568559
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424422487
DOI	10.1109/CTS.2008.4543932
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-05-19
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer science Best-Practices Visualization Collaborative tools Operating systems Computational modeling Laboratories Collaboration Prototypes Collaborative work Mathematics Human-Computer Interaction
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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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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