Friday 2005-09-02 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EDT (2Y9G)
- Call-in Number: 800-857-9370 (2Y9H)
- PASSCODE: 19085 (2Y9I)
- Your entry will be toned-in; please announce yourself (2Y9J)
Agenda Ideas and Suggestions (2Y9S)
- Newcomers' orientation for first 45 min. (2Y9T)
- If you've already been introduced to the space, join us at 11:15 am when we discuss how to comment in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2Y9U)
- people with specific tasks they need done on the CWE are encouraged to bring them to the second half of Friday's session -- we can discuss how best to accomplish these tasks. (2Y9V)
- Please add here specific questions/ tasks that you would like addressed in the second half of the session. (2Y9W)
Agenda & Proceedings (2Y9X)
- 1. First 45 minutes - Introduction and New User Orientation - SusanTurnbull and PeterYim ("=ppy") (2YA4)
- number one page for newcomers is the WikiHomePage for solid background (2YA5)
- number two page for newcomers: http://community.cim3.net/wiki/ (2YA6)
- CWE for CWE users and administrators - our place to add content and help us learn together faster (2YA7)
- DougEngelbart pioneered groupware, hypertext and many of the seminal ideas underpinning this space - beginning ~40 years ago (2YA8)
- our Collaborative Work Environment (CWE) is a suite of 4 work spaces for the trusted community: (2YA9)
- a portal - to provide a convenient single point of entry to the environment and the work of the community - public facing facet (2YAA)
- a discussion forum (archived email forum) - to hold our conversations and discussions (virtually and asynchronously - not at the same time) (2YAC)
- enables you to focus on content of conversation and not administration (2YAD)
- every message becomes an html page that can be sorted by date or conversation thread (linked by replying to an earlier message) (2YAE)
- a wiki - to help us collaboratively compose our work (2YAF)
- like a web page; read and write web; one person at a time takes notes (2YAG)
- platform independent and people can be located anywhere in the world (2YAH)
- a file repository - to hold documents, work and resources that we can share, and (2YAI)
- like your file space, but remote. Requires one time set-up. Any content is accessible by a browser and the content can be referenced and you can point your audience directly to the link of interest (2YAJ)
- File-Sharing Workspace / Document Repository: (2YAK)
- in addition to linking to just the top of the page, linking is more granular -- fine-grained accessibility, linking to any paragraph or bullet point (2YAQ)
- 2. Why do we need this? (2YAR)
- Mission of Company: improve the effectiveness of distributed collaboration for people (2YAS)
- Ref: DougEngelbart - his seminal work is an inspiration for this space - particularly, his concept on OHS (Open Hyperdocument System) and DKR (Dynamic Knowledge Repository) (2YAT)
- Tools segmentation: (2YAV)
- personal productivity vs. group productivity (2YAW)
- transaction systems vs. groupware (2YAX)
- thick client vs. thin client ('utility' software) (2YAY)
- Community segmentation: (2YAZ)
- it's all about getting work done effectively, especially when we are not in the same place (2YB4)
- it takes People, Process and Tools to achieve that (emphasis: People heads the list; and this is definitely not just about technology) (2YB5)
- To be able to wrap the right processes around tools with the right people in place to implement (2YB6)
- It's a participatory workspace (2YB7)
- it's about: (2YB8)
- sharing (2YB9)
- distributing the work (2YBA)
- getting things done without being in the same place, at the same time (2YBB)
- capturing the memory and knowledge over the entire life-cycle of the community (2YBC)
- have minimal structure to do work; spur innovation and emergent behavior (2YBD)
- perhaps appears very basic, but that's key to its expressive power and flexibility (2YBE)
- example of a community to look at: http://ontolog.cim3.net (2YBF)
- testbed global community over the past 3 yr. - over 100 members from 13 countries - you're welcome to visit (join us too if you're interested in ontologies) (2YBG)
- 3. a mini wiki-tutorial: (2YBH)
- The top three things that make this wiki site different from an ordinary website are: (2YBI)
- (1) anyone who can read from the site, can also write to the site (so, it is a read-and-write web, not just read-only) (2YBJ)
- (2) you get automatic hyperlinking, through the use of the WikiWord. (2YBK)
- (3) the version history of any page is available, allowing people to see how the content has evolved, and to roll back to an earlier version with a few mouse clicks. (2YBL)
- "create account" / "login" (near upper-right corner of the page, right below the logo/icon, any page.) (2YBM)
- suggested using your name in WikiWord format as your UserName, and use some password (to avoid being spoofed too easily) (2YBN)
- pick a page (your namesake page or SandBox would be a good start) and click on "Edit text of this page" (near the lower-left corner of the page, any page.) (2YBO)
- write something onto your namesake page (2YBP)
- click "save" or "preview" - Preview enables you to see what your page will look like on the web after saving - while simultaneously showing the edit box. Its helpful to see how the text formatting rules are rendered on the web by looking at both windows. (2YBQ)
- Summary box - annotates the nature of the change you made (2YBR)
- Text formatting rules can be found at the TextFormattingRules page. (2YBS)
- take a look at the page index (2YBT)
- Site map index - click on the "Page Index" at the top (uuper left, next to RecentChanges") of each page. (2YBV)
- Select "Recent Changes" at the top of each page to see which pages are changing (2YBW)
- also, take a look at "View other revisions" at the bottom left (2YBX)
- intro to PurpleNumbers (2YBY)
- 4. How to make comments in the wiki, including creating links (in-wiki: page & paragraph, from forum archives, from document repository, for the web) (2YBZ)
- How to use "forum" method for commenting on the DataReferenceModel_09_2004 (2YC0)
- large document, large number of contributors representing all interested parties and anticipate contributions that may include large "amounts or chunks of pages") (2YC1)
- use PurpleNumber method to anchor your comments to the relevant paragraph (2YC2)
- Right click on the PurpleNumber following the section identified for comment, like the "2YC3" at the end of this line (2YC3)
- Select copy shortcut (2YC4)
- Paste into your email message with subject line - Comments (2YC5)
- Follow the examples of comments provided below; PurpleNumber is pasted in after ref: (for reference) (2YC6)
- Add your name, date and time in parentheses (2YC7)
- Send your message to the public site at: drm-public@colab.cim3.net (2YC8)
- 5. Observations and Insights from the Week - All (2YCB)
- 6. Date/ Time of next call: Friday, September 16, 2005, 10:30 am ~ 12:00 noon EST (2YCG)
