Project Title: Collaborative Portal

Project Description: We have studied several academic and
commercial collaboration systems to identify a set of
requirements and design principles for environments
to support distance education, collaborative compuational science
and related areas. We combine synchronous and asynchronous capabilities
in a collaborative portal. Our system is built in modular fashion so
that it can use commercial support in areas like audio/video conferencing
and base infrastructure including shared display module. Interesting technical
features include the systematic use of shared export with collaboration
supported for for a few key formats including PDF SVG HTML and Java2/3D.
There is a unversal XML specified event model built on top of the publish/
subscribe mechanism (JMS Java Message Service). Replay is allowed using SMIL
format and universal access supported by collaboration between different
renderings of a given shared object. Hand-held devices as well as dektop clients are
supported. The shared objects are managed by a new distributed XML Web O/S
called MyXoS.

PIs: Geoffrey Fox fox@csit.fsu.edu

URL: http://aspen.csit.fsu.edu/collabtools/