Communication and Information Exchange
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
First task is to create a space where people can propose contributions or ideas:
- Rudy’s suggested Characterize Air Pollution over India subcontinent
- developing a prototype air quality decision support system for Indian air quality management activities was suggested for the proposal
Tools/Methods
- Meetings/Telecons/Video chat – the ESIP AQ group meets every other week with telecon where people share ideas
- Telecon/web meeting – GEO Pilot used this method. allows displaying the workspace and facilitates the group learning how to use the space.
- List-serv allows people to subscribe and have a 1-many conversation
- One improvement that we have added is the ability to record and share artifacts.
- Collaborative Workspace that :
- Identifies the people that are interested in participating
- Gives a place for capturing ideas, artifacts
- Telecon notes,
- Presentations
- Projects that the group has done
- pulls together the resources that the group has already created: papers, presentations, collaborative activities already occurring, discussion from e-mail to web
- Needs: a curator – someone that is willing to transfer material and encourage the group to use the space.
- Great thing about the workspace is it’s flexible. Downside is it’s flexible.
- To keep track of content:
- For different artifacts we have different templates
- Presentations,
- Telecons
- Datasets
- AQ Events
- We use tags in these templates so that we can create lists automatically
- Collaborative Workspace that :