CYCLADES: a distributed system for virtual community support based on open archives

Author

Gross, Tom

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Geselischaft, Fraunhofer Inst. for Appl. Inf. Technol.-FIT, St. Augustin, Germany

fYear

2003

fDate

5-7 Feb. 2003

Firstpage

484

Lastpage

491

Abstract

This paper is about support for the exchange of information and knowledge among researchers. We introduce the concepts of open archives and grey literature, which provide valuable sources for researchers who work alone. We analyse how users exchange information and knowledge and introduce communities to more adequately reflect the nature of human information and knowledge exchange. Finally, we present the functionality and implementation of the CYCLADES environment - a distributed and open collaborative virtual archive environment based on open archives, providing several services supporting individual researchers as well as communities of researchers.

Keywords

groupware; open systems; CYCLADES environment; distributed open collaborative virtual archive environment; grey literature; information exchange; knowledge exchange; open archives; virtual community support; Books; Collaborative work; Cultural differences; Environmental economics; Global communication; Humans; Information analysis; Production; Publishing; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2003. Proceedings. Eleventh Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Genova, Italy

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1875-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2003.1183629

Filename

1183629