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Lead participant: FUN
Task 3.4.a: Collaborative tools
Partners involved: UAE: 1, HM: 2, FUN:
3, AAU: 1, SIS: 1
A research study will be carried
out to develop and adapt the current state-of-the-art on collaborative
methodologies, along with a comparative study of available open tools
oriented to the development of open source means for the provision of high
quality collaborative tools.
The most relevant issues to be
determined in the specification of the collaborative tools are: 1)
Collaborative methodologies, 2) Definition of interoperable outputs (e.g.
XML-type) as a result of the collective intelligence and as a seed for
further work (RTD purpose, educational, dissemination, etc.); 3) Means to
establish open channels with society; 4) User interface features in order to
avoid the necessity of manuals, i.e. provision of self-contained tools; 5)
Security & Trust, Usability, and Interoperability guidelines developed by
the respective councils.
Upon these specifications a
prototype of the collaborative toolkit will be developed and integrated into
the domusBITae platform.
Task 3.4.b: Education Tools & e-Campus
Partners involved: HM: 12, FUN:
13, SIS: 5
A research study will be carried
out to select: a) the object model best suited to the scientific purposes of
the community, and b) the open source code offering highest quality modules for
the proposed tools.
Detailed featuring of the
educational tools must be determined within the frame of the system
specifications agreed in WP1.2, regarding: 1) Collective production; 2) Development
of a hub able to join the collective set of resources into a logical
architecture; 3) Interoperability and semantic background network for the
linkage of primary resources; 4) Use of multimedia objects; 5) Objects
re-usability; 6) Capacity to develop a virtual campus by means of the joint
integrated services; 7) User interface features in order to avoid the
necessity of manuals, i.e. provision of self-contained tools; 8) Security
& Trust, Usability, and Interoperability guidelines developed by the
respective councils.
For the implementation of e-Campus
additional academic resources must be provided:
(i) Communicational tools: solving
questions, group activities and enhancing communication synergies between
participants of training programs.
(ii) Training tools: Virtual
Library, events calendar, current
news, case studies, complementary legislation.
Upon these specifications a
prototype of the educational tools will be multi-linguistically developed and
integrated into the domusBITae platform.
Task 3.4.c: Visual interfaces
Partners involved: UAE: 1, AAU: 8,
SIS: 2
In order to overcome dense
information environments and representations that lead to complicated
patterns of scrolling, linking and navigation, the solutions proposed in
domusBITae will experiment with new trends in information visualization,
navigation and data organization such as those that have been characterised
as zoomable user interfaces (ZUI) for either: fluidly zooming in and out in
vast information landscapes, or classifying in real-time –and in a
customizable fashion – maps and patterns of huge databases.
Though several proprietary tools
has been currently developed domusBITae tools will focus on open source
developments as (e.g. “The Open Zoom Project”).
These applications are meant to be
developed for two main interlinked purposes: a) for the single-user graphic
interface used for navigation of the content landscapes contained in the
databases containing the information used in a collaborative work, and b) for
innovation and ease of presentation and interaction in real-time telepresence
and on-line collaborative applications such as the “virtual meeting room”.
Task 3.4.d: Integration
Partners involved: HM: 1, FUN: 2,
AAU: 2, SIS: 1
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