2010-01-12: Workspace as collection of services

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Workspace is a collection of services which allow users to collaboratively work on a project together.

Bothma thesis, Designing a Generic Collaborative Working Environment ( M. A. Martinez-Carreras, 2007)

The functions describe the purpose that the workspace activity accomplishes: (Tang, 1998)

• Store Information - preserve information in some form for future recall, typically after attaining explicit group agreement
• Convey ideas - Transmitting ideas to others in some textual, graphic or gestural form
• Represent ideas - express tentative ideas in some tangible form to allow one's self to perceive, react and build on them
• Engage attention - directing attention to a region in the workspace, typically to refer to an object or to provide focus of attention

Workspace provides multiple views of object

• who is working on it
• what is it
• what resources support it
• what tools and methods were developed for it
• todo items about it
• history of development
• relationship to other projects/objects
• project plan/goals