a potential design for a prototype online communication and collaboration platform
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Presentation for September 9, 2011TRANSCRIPT
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A Potential Design for a Prototype Online Communication and Collaboration Platform
September 9, 2011Sarah Jones
Digital Library Services
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Background
The Problem
Transportation planners and public health agencies are not working together effectively for regional development planning.
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Background
A Cause for the Problem
There are barriers that keep them from working together effectively. One barrier relates to communication and collaboration.
– Transportation/regional level - fed laws require public input (environmental, minorities, community, etc.)
– Public health - input/planning has been lacking
Being overly dependent on automobiles → consequences, e.g., obesity.
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Background
Hypothesis
Providing online tools will help them overcome the communication and collaboration barrier.
– provide an online destination for them to communicate, collaborate and share data amongst themselves
– use outputs from that destination to communicate with and engage the public
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Background
This project
Provide a prototype online communication and collaboration platform with a set of tools that will address the barrier to transportation planners and public health agencies working together effectively.
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Components of the online destination 1
Data storage and access• Hosting
– Self-hosting by the agencies– Professional data center hosting - commercial vs. non-commercial
(e.g., the UTA Data Center in Fort Worth)
• Value-added services (e.g., data search / parsing / analysis / visualization software)
• Security, privacy, protection of licensed content
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Components of the online destination 2
Options for online communication:• Forums• Chat• Email• Meetings• Organization blogs• Individual blogs
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Components of the online destination 3
Options for online collaboration:• Shared documents (text, presentation, spreadsheet,
whiteboard, desktop sharing)– e.g., Google docs, join.me, Dabbleboard
• Photo/image/video sharing– e.g., flickr, YouTube
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Components of the online destination 4
Future options for providing a public-facing product:• Information sharing with the public
– e.g., news, agency blogs, individual staff blogs
• Gathering input from the public– e.g., through polls, blog or news comments, surveys
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Back-end development requirements
• Data storage and access solution(s)– Whose servers? Who pays?
• Choice of web development platform– Local or commercial hosting with regular HTML– Use of a CMS, e.g., Drupal, Joomla, WordPress
• Integration of 3rd party web apps into the local user interface (e.g., the forums, chat, shared documents, etc.)
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Support and maintenance requirements 1
• Data storage and access solution(s)– Who provides staffing? Who uploads new data? Who manages
the data selection and updating process?
• The web pages– Who provides staffing? Who manages, creates, updates
content? Who ensures content integrity?
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Support and maintenance requirements 2
• If there is a public-facing portion of the web site:– Community manager (the public face/voice of the site/project
to the public)– Content strategy
• Unified marketing/public relations presentation of the agencies involved and of this particular project
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User Interface Considerations
• Principles of User Interface Design (an entire field of study in itself!)
• Some places to start:– 10 Principles of Effective Web Design– User Interface principles in web design– A List Apart: Design– Key principles of user centered design
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Issues related to overall management
• Who is/are the champion(s) for this project?– Enlisting support in the participating agencies– Cheerleading to maintain interest and participation among
individuals in the agencies
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Questions and Discussion
Contact me:
Sarah JonesLibrarian, Digital Library ServicesUniversity of Texas at Arlington [email protected]