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Prototyping Open Hypermedia Extention on LivingOM
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Goal
This project will create a prototype built on LivingOM, and analyze what portion of collaborative creativities the open hypermedia can support.
Background
LivingOM is a hypermeida system for organizational memory support which provides automated bi-directional links among artifacts.
LivingOM also employs user authoring interface via web browsers.
Although those functionalities of LivingOM are considered useful to organizational memory support, it has current limitation that LivingOM can create hyperlinks among entities in LivingOM's repository.
This limitation can be exposed in the following situations.
- If someone puts links to web resources of related workgroups, users cannot get support of LivingOM.
- If someone has his personal webpage of which contents has related descriptions, users cannot get support of LivingOM.
- If a subgroup has its own external website(e.g. on swiki), users cannot get support of LivingOM.
Approach and Plan
Tomo's hypothesis is that really creative collaborators not only act in their groups but also watch outer worlds and bring essenses of external resources(e.g. concepts, theories, ways of thinking, methodologies and so on) into their own groups.
The current plan of this project is to list pieces of those scouting/intaking actions refering to Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, and show whether or not organizational memory on open hypermedia can support each of it.
There are two possible ways to provide open hypermedia capability to LivingOM.
- Forwarder pages which "virtually" incorporate external resources and place links to other artifacts in LivingOM.
- Proxy server which issues HTTP request on behalf of user and call LivingOM's functionality to place links to artifacts in LivingOM.
Tomo has implemented a very initial prototype of proxy server.
In this project, forwarder pages will be prototyped, proxy server will be revised and extended, and the both of the two will be associated with collaborative creativity.
Collaborators
This project will be performed with consulting Taro Adachi, Jonathan Ostwald and some other people inside/outside of the school.
If collaboration with out-of-class people is considered "cheating", this statement will be withdrawn.
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