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News: The Interdisciplinary Science Library - Inside Higher Ed

Can Xythos Simplify Basic Document Services?

reviews Xythos

Links to Software as a Service online doc management collaboration services:

SharePoint
Intel with their coming SuiteTwo amalgamation - Intel has cancelled this project
O3Spaces with their open source challenge to SharePoint,
Blogtronix with their updated Enterprise 2.0 collaboration offering,
BaseCamp
Adobe are shifting their Acrobat product

One Health Initiative - One World One Medicine One Health

The One Health Initiative, a movement to forge co-equal, all inclusive collaborations between physicians, veterinarians, and other scientific-health related disciplines, has been endorsed by various major medical organizations and health agencies, including the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the American Society for Microbiology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

LUNARR themes

Sharing Ideas: Tough Times Encourage Colleges to Collaborate - Chronicle.com

MIT and Harvard to Share $100-Million Dedicated to Finding AIDS Vaccine - Chronicle.com

Consortium on Fostering Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Advances in interdisciplinary research and teaching are critical to producing workable solutions to many of society's most pressing problems. "Fostering Interdisciplinary Inquiry: An Invitational Conference" will focus on policies and practices of academic institutions and is intended to foster institutional cooperation among the nation's top research universities, public and private, and to expand understanding of both opportunities and challenges in advancing interdisciplinary research, academic programs, teaching, and training. A key goal of the conference is to create a consortium for interdisciplinary transformation that will continue to advance progress on these important issues.

PLoS Medicine - Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers

For Arizona State and Penn, 2 Tech-Transfer Offices Could Be Better Than One - Chronicle.com

The University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University are teaming up on technology transfer in a three-year experiment that will allow each to take advantage of the other’s expertise in commercializing the findings of their researchers.

Wired Campus: Letter to the Editor: Librarians and Tech Officials Must Get Along to Meet Future Challenges - Chronicle.com

Library For Hire: Johns Hopkins U. Sells Services to an Online College - Chronicle.com

Bringing Tenure Into the Digital Age

Collaboration: Group theory : Nature News

Portals

Pros and cons for enterprise intranet portals By Toby Ward on 8 Jun 2007 at CorporateWebsite.com

Central Desktop - Project collaboration, Team collaboration, Intranets, Wiki Software - Central Desktop

MindJet Connect - Sharepoint Use Cases

Atlassian - SharePoint Connector - Features

The Framework for Social Computing within the Enterprise

Powering Google Gadgets with WebSphere sMash

IBM WebSphere Software

Nick Hortovanyi : It should be WebSphere Portal vs Sharepoint not Domino vs Sharepoint

Mission Critical Collaboration - SharePoint or GoogleSites? B+ Big Men On Content

Sharepoint and why ODF, CDF, and other file formats may not matter much | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com

Collaboration Tools

rebelutionary: On Acting Decisively: Confluence SharePoint Integration

Main Page - Croquet Consortium

From the website:

Croquet is a powerful open source software development environment for the creation and large-scale distributed deployment of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are (1) persistent (2) deeply collaborative, (3) interconnected and (4) interoperable. The Croquet architecture supports synchronous communication, collaboration, resource sharing and computation among large numbers of users on multiple platforms and multiple devices.

The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)

A great Harper's article on the relationship of authorship to creation. Highlights:

"Any text that has infiltrated the common mind to the extent of Gone With the Wind or Lolita or Ulysses inexorably joins the language of culture. A map-turned-to-landscape, it has moved to a place beyond enclosure or control. The authors and their heirs should consider the subsequent parodies, refractions, quotations, and revisions an honor, or at least the price of a rare success."

I've long thought that a reasonable plan.

Many Eyes

You can explore data using your eyes! This site is set up to allow the entire internet to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people.

About - Swivel

Swivel is a Web site for curious people to explore data. Users can upload data to the swivel website and swivel allows tusers to transform the data and create graphs. I can't really tell exactly what else it does, or how.

diva @ sfsu

DIVA is the Digital Information Virtual Archive, a web-based file management solution for use by faculty and researchers in higher education. DIVA provides always-on storage, organization, recovery, version-tracking, and sharing/dissemination capabilities for campuses across the CSU.

Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration.

Newman,ME . "Coauthorship networks and patterns of scientific collaboration." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [0027-8424] 101 Suppl 1 (2004). 5200-5.

There is a very high rate of co-authorship in biology, a high rate in physics, and a somewhat lower rate in mathematics, though the rate in mathematics has been increasing along with the other fields. However, there is a lot of variation in the collaboration patterns among the sciences. Also, collaborating leads to more collaboration.

The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network: Disciplinary Cohesion from 1963 to 1999

Moody,J . "The Structure of a Social Science Collaboration Network: Disciplinary Cohesion from 1963 to 1999" American sociological review [0003-1224] 69.2 (2004). 213-.

A cast of thousands: Coauthorship and subauthorship collaboration in the 20 th century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy

Cronin,B . "A cast of thousands: Coauthorship and subauthorship collaboration in the 20 th century as manifested in the scholarly journal literature of psychology and philosophy" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology [1532-2882] 54.9 (2003). 855-.

Details the occurrence of co-authorships and acknowledgements in scholarly articles published in prepresentative journals from the fields of psychology and philosophy. In the case of the psych journals, there has been a very steady increase in the number of co-authored articles over the past 100 years. While these social science articles do not includes the numbers of co-authors sometimes seen in STM articles (occasionally hundreds of authors can be listed in STM) this steady increase is in keeping with the notion of increased collaboration in scholarship. The philosophy articles are still generally produced by a single author in keeping with the general assumption that philosophers are lone scholars. However, since the 1950's, acknowledgements have appeared more and more frequently to the point where the great majority of articles include acknowledgements.

Connection and stratification in research collaboration: An analysis of the COLLNET network

"Connection and stratification in research collaboration: An analysis of the COLLNET network" Information processing [0306-4573] 42.6 (2006). 1599-.

Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?

Cronin,B . "Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology [1532-2882] 52.7 (2001). 558-569.

In Google We Trust? [computer file]

"In Google We Trust? [computer file]" The journal of electronic publishing [1080-2711] 9.1 (2006). 1-.

Trust, authority, and reputation are central to scholarly publishing, but the trust model of the Internet is almost antithetical to the trust model of academia. Publishers have been so preoccupied with the brute mechanics of moving content to the online world that they have virtually ignored the challenge that the Internet trust model poses to the scholarly publisher. Publishers can learn much about approaches to handling Internet trust from the actions of major online players outside the publishing industry. Publishers should also benefit from watching the trust models that are being experimented with in the nascent realm of social software applications. Publishers once led the way in establishing the apparatus of trust during the transition from manuscript to print culture in early modern Europe. Ultimately, publishers should again take the lead in helping to establish new mechanisms of trust in what could reasonably be described as "the early modern Internet."

SynchroEdit

This is an open source text editor in alpha release as of 10/13/2005. Perhaps perhaps perhaps.

A democracy of groups

Abstract from First Monday:

In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual and the state, disregarding the collaborative nature of public life, or they remain wedded to outdated and unrealistic conceptions of deliberation. This article makes two central claims. First, technology will enable more effective forms of collective action. This is particularly so of the emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes together.

Center for History and New Media - Tools

Center for History & New Media's (George Mason University) tools include: Web Scrapbook ("store all kinds of media items—URLs, images, text, and movies—and collaborate with others"), Survey Builder, H-Bot (AskJeeve's style historical fact-finder) and others.

Writely - The Web Word Processor

This is amazing. Shared document editing that can be uploaded or downloaded and shared in a million ways, including sending right to a blog. Writeboard is totally primitive compared to this, which allows you to tag your documents.

SynchroEdit, a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com _

A post from the socialsoftwareweblog about online collaborative text editors.