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SUBJECTS
Collaboration Goal Enterprise/Knowledge Management Does Not Improve P
Engine Map Topics for Subjects Ontology Graphical
Glass Bead Game Describes Com Manager Magister Ludi to Add Intelligen
Interpretation of Events Concensus Shared Meaning to Collaborate Ever
Scribe Com Manager Transition from Information (IT) to KM
Sparrow Web Site for Sharing Information and Common Editing to Collab
Sparrow Web Community Shared Web Pages
Sparrow Community Web Pages

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3411 - Summary/Objective
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341201 - Follow up ref SDS 2 0001, ref SDS 1 NV5I.
341202 -
341203 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from John Mahoney submitting a reference
341204 - to....
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341207 -         http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/projects/sparrow/
341208 -
341209 -
341210 - ...and asking if anyone has positioned or evaluated Sparrow web?
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341212 - The link goes to community shared web pages for Sparrow Web, which
341213 - describes objectives for common editing of web pages to enable
341214 - collaboration....
341215 -
341216 -      The current state of the web is strongly biased towards reading
341217 -      previously authored documents. Changes and additions to the page
341218 -      are solely the purview of the original author. Sparrow Web
341219 -      promotes a different genre of web page: the community-shared
341220 -      page. Like any web page, a community-shared page is originally
341221 -      crafted by a single author, who defines the initial content and
341222 -      scope of the document. But unlike other web pages, a
341223 -      community-shared page can be modified or added to by any
341224 -      interested contributor, and the barriers for doing so are
341225 -      lessened by allowing changes to be made in a lightweight manner.
341226 -      Community-shared pages increase the collaborative capability of
341227 -      the web. ref OF 3 AU7O
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341229 - Sparrow is developed by Xerox at the PARC research center.
341230 -
341231 - This sounds like the solution Jack Park proposed for SDS in his letter
341232 - on 010411. ref SDS 1 NV5I
341233 -
341234 - The other day on 020306 Mike Poremba submitted information on blogging
341235 - and klogging that may be related as well. ref SDS 3 GT4M
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341238 - Sparrow Web supports community-shared web pages by providing
341239 - lightweight editing. Lightweight editing allows people to contribute
341240 - to a page as easily as possible. ref OF 3 00GN Some features of
341241 - Sparrow Web that contribute to lightweight-ness are:
341242 -
341243 -       ..
341244 -      Editing directly in the web browser.
341245 -
341246 -      Adding to a Sparrow Web page is lightweight because you do not
341247 -      need to change to a different application and find the place in
341248 -      the filesystem where the page is stored; you simply click on the
341249 -      page that you are viewing. ref OF 3 PV5O
341250 -
341251 -      Sparrow Web pages can be edited on (just about) any web browser
341252 -      on any platform, because it only uses HTML forms; it does not use
341253 -      client-side Java, JavaScript, ActiveX, etc., that may prevent it
341254 -      from working in some browsers. ref OF 3 00AR
341255 -
341256 -       ..
341257 -      Editing one item at a time.
341258 -
341259 -      Contributors add or edit just one item at a time. This makes it
341260 -      easier on users for small changes; Sparrow Web is designed for
341261 -      occasional, incremental changes rather than wholesale changes or
341262 -      many additions at one time. ref OF 3 AX3J
341263 -
341264 -       ..
341265 -      Editing in-place.
341266 -
341267 -      During editing, the context of the rest of the page remains in
341268 -      place. The metaphor used is that of the "outliner": the triangle
341269 -      graphic turns downwards to "open" up an editing region.
341270 -      Meanwhile, the page contents above and below the editing region
341271 -      remains unchanged and visible. ref OF 3 014M
341272 -
341273 -       ..
341274 -      Structured editing.
341275 -
341276 -      The Sparrow Web page author specifies the fields in the Sparrow
341277 -      Web items, and Sparrow Web presents a form for contributors to
341278 -      fill out or edit. The form can be very general (a large text
341279 -      editing area) or very specific (many different form elements to
341280 -      handle many kinds of entries), as the author desires. ref OF 3
341281 -      015V
341282 -
341283 -       ..
341284 -      No need to know (or see) any HTML.
341285 -
341286 -      Contributors simply fill out forms rather than see the actual
341287 -      HTML that is generated to format their inputs. The author has
341288 -      already specified the formatting for the Sparrow Web item.
341289 -      ref OF 3 01EV
341290 -
341291 -       ..
341292 -      No need to explicitly lock the file.
341293 -
341294 -      Sparrow Web handles concurrency and merging behind the scenes.
341295 -      ref OF 3 UY6I
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341297 -  ..
341298 - This might be a useful capability, but not for collaboration, which
341299 - requires building shared meaning to accomplish complementary action,
341300 - as set out in POIMS.
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341302 - Examination of the demo material showed these folks are using the
341303 - Internet for management, with schedules and action items.
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341305 - Sent an email to the two developers alerting them to the opportunity
341306 - explained in POIMS to upgrade their technology.
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