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Future Directions for Unidata: Encouraging Broader Community and Collaboration
Joanne K. Graham, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. Hansen and S. M. Kehoe
Unidata is building a dynamic, web-based information and collaboration portal. The immediate goal is to provide users with on-line, interactive, collaborative tools designed to extend, broaden, and bring together its user community. A key to making this project successful will be community-based needs assessment and user-centered design.
Our aim is to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration through deployment of topic-centered forums, community directories, and collaboration boards. Click-wrap software access, on-line writing tools, news feeds, and a central community directory are a few of the tools that this highly customizable portal will offer. With cooperation from similar initiatives we will work toward providing a single point of authentication where users can gain access to information and tools, including digital libraries, all within one framework.
Session 9, Internet APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Tuesday, 15 January 2002, 1:55 PM-5:30 PM
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