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Virtual collaboration
Revised by Julien Brun from OSS 2014
June, 2016
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Virtual collaboration

Panoply of technology

What to consider when choosing among similar solutions?

Ease of use

  • does it require dedicated software?
  • does it require specific training?
  • can you move easily across platforms, devices?

Who are your users?

Who controls content

is it stored...

  • ...locally for individuals?
  • ...on a (trusted) shared server?
  • ...on a commercial platform?

Performance

  • Are there size limits?
  • Are there speed bottlenecks?
  • Is reliability high enough?

Other considerations...

  • Open source or proprietary
  • Portability
  • Killer features

Recap

  • Ease of use
  • Who controls content
  • Open source or proprietary
  • Performance
  • Specific features

Choosing your tool

What are your needs?

  • What is your content?
    • Ideas? Documents? Tasks? Data? Analyses? References?
  • Asynchronous or synchronous?
  • Online or offline?
  • Individual copies? or shared?
  • Free form and flexible, or highly structured?
  • Ephemeral or durable?

Email

  • Content not really shared
  • Management burden imposed on each user
  • mailing list such as Google groups can help to organize email threads

Messaging, conversations

  • IRC, Slack
  • Twitter, Google+, Facebook, ResearchGate

Video, screen sharing

  • Google+ Hangouts
  • Skype
  • GoToMeeting
  • Zoom

File sharing

  • Google Drive, box, Dopbox, ...
  • Redmine
  • BtSync

Version control systems

  • Git
  • Subversion
  • ...other versioning systems

Collaborative editing

  • Etherpad
  • Google Docs
  • MediaWiki
  • ...other wiki software

Project Management

(typically: issue tracking, repo browser, wiki)

  • Redmine, Trac, Jira
  • Github, GitLab, Sourceforge

Content management systems

  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • Plone

Data/artifact sharing

  • KNB
  • DataONE
  • FigShare
  • Dryad
  • "The Cloud"

Remote Computation

Bibliographic

Note: Mendeley is more restrictive in regards to the number of members in a group and the number of groups you can create. Here is a good side by side comparison: http://www.library.yorku.ca/web/research-learn/citations/zotero-vs-mendeley-comparison/