thought some of you might be interested to see how we're
thinking about a new project just started here, integrating Compendium
with presence information, video conferencing/virtual meetings, and
workflow/coordination:
CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid)
CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced
Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) is a project that will start in June
2002 and run for 24 months. It is funded by the UK e-Science Programme.
An introductory paper on CoAKTinG submitted accepted for presentation at
WACE-2002 is available:
Buckingham Shum, S., De Roure, D., Eisenstadt, M., Shadbolt, N. and Tate,
A. (2002) CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the
Grid. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Advanced Collaborative
Environments, Eleventh IEEE Int. Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), July 24-26, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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The Objective is to advance the state of the art in collaborative
mediated spaces for distributed e-Science collaboration through the novel
application of advanced knowledge technologies such as:
·Ontologies
to enhance multi-modal and multi-media time phased group discussions and
problem solving
·Knowledge-based
planning and task support to enhance issue-based process/activity
discussions
·Scholarly
discourse and argumentation to enhance collaborative meeting structures
·Presence
and visualisation to enhance group peripheral awareness at a distance