The New Architecture for Collaboration

Brent McConnellDavid LaPalomento

  Understand

  Find / Reuse

  Tacit => Explicit

Collaboration Cycle

Publish• Process by which information/knowledge is codified for

others• Experience, education, wisdom, data transformed into

information • Many forms 

o Blog, Wiki, Document, Webpage• Potential for collaboration (Collaboration Objects)

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  Find / Reuse

  Tacit => Explicit

Collaboration Cycle

Discovery

• Finding the needle in the haystack• Search

o Wisdom of the Crowdo Indexed Search

• Shared• Recommendation

o Intelligent systems

  Understand

  Find / Reuse

  Tacit => Explicit

Collaboration Cycle

Discuss

• Information is being processed and better understoodo IMo Emailo Discussion Forums

• Communication or other publications may be required

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  Find / Reuse

  Tacit => Explicit

Collaboration Cycle

Add Value

• Adding your perspective• Wisdom of the Crowd• Tags• Rating• Comment• Review

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  Find / Reuse

  Tacit => Explicit

Collaboration Cycle

Extend

• Information is understood and has been extended into your scenarios

• Information is now being reused and extended in new ways

What is Collaboration

• Working together with others to achieve a common goal• No hidden agendas• Requires open and trusting relationships between parties• Probably includes some form of "play" and must be

accepted• Mandatory in the Knowledge Economy

Identify a Successful Project

• Find a Business Sponsor• Solve an Important Problem• Start Small

Implementing Collaboration

• Communicate with the users• User training• Document successes• Balancing pre-population with organic growth• Creating incentives with recognition and reward => positive

reinforcement creates a grass-roots movement • Providing users with ongoing support• Learn from mistakes => Be flexible in the tool's evolution

Kablink Project

• Provides tools that meet the needs of the Collaboration Cycle – Publish – blogs, wikis, forums, – Search – integrated search across everything, share

with others in system– Discuss – survey, forums, comments– Add value – tags, ratings, editorial comment– Extend - create new business types, business

workflows (new this week :-)

Creating New Social Objects

• Extensions• Remote Applications

Extensions

• Fully-integrated Kablink objectso Searchableo Trackableo Sharableo Persistent

• Simple, distributable deploymento Java .war file

Getting Started

• Model-View-Controller Paradigmo Definitions and templates make up Kablink's modelo Kablink provides default controllers for all the objects

it manages• Create a Java web application project• Public resources at the .war root• Place system resources (i.e. definitions and

templates) off of /WEB-INF

Model: Definitions

• Define the fields that create an object and its representationso Form: object creation

•  OSCON Sessiono Start Timeo End Timeo Titleo Speakers

Model: Definitions (cont.)

• Use Form & View Designer to create your definitiono Customize the default form, entry and summary

views

Model: Definitions (cont.)

• Export the completed definitionso The deployer will find them anywhere

but they probably end up in the WEB-INF directory of your project

Model: Templates

• Hierarchies of objects• Site Administration > Form and View Designers to create templates

• Export completed templates

View: JSPs

• Create a custom JSP to display more complex objects

• <blink:url />: add the URL to a resource off the root of your war as an attribute to the contained XML element

• <blink:attachment />: add the URL of any file attachment as an attribute to the contained XML element

View: Enhancements

• Include additional client-side enhancements:o Javascripto Flasho Imageso Et cetera

• Reference them via <blink:url /> in your JSP

Remote Applications

• Integrate existing web-tools• Utilize existing development expertise

o Web frameworkso Programming languages

• Integrated security model o Remote Application is registered as a principal in

systemo Can apply ACL to a specific remote applicationo Lesser of user or application permissions are applied

• Still under development

View: Callback

• Remote applications appear inline, like regular objects

• Kablink calls to your application to provide a view snippet

• Post to your URLo User info in posto Respond with HTML fragment

Model: SOAP

• Use SOAP calls to manipulate other kablink objectso http://example.com/ssr/ws 

folder_addEntrydefinition_getDefinitions  profile_getGroups

Examples

• VideoEntry• Twitter