ARL is interested in prodcing a survey and partial evaluation
of a range of collaboration tools for technical and administrative
tasks. We are interested in getting help on this in the areas listed below
as a typical summary of a tool.
We follow this template with a draft list of tools/technologies.
Please email if you have any comments or can help in any way
Thank you
	Geoffrey Fox

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Name of Collaboration Tool:
URL's to find out about it
Capability or Capabilities
	Framework or end-user capability
	Mode: Synchronous/Asynchronous
	      Shared Event/Display
	Audio-Video Conferencing
	Chat Room/Instant Messenger
	Whiteboard
	Shared Documents of various types
	Shared File Systems
	"Specialized" Conferencing, Calendar, Visualization ...
Cost
Requirements/Limitations
	bandwidth requirements
	Number of participants
	peer to peer / client-server
	only shares web pages
	requires Lotus Notes
	requires Windows
	requires certain peripherals/hardware
Ongoing People or other Support Need
Need for further development of Tool to be useful
Experience in using it
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Draft List of Tools ********************************
PVS from NCSA -- Initial Install on Laptop
MicroSoft NetMeeting  -- Initial Install on Laptop
Tango  -- Initial Install on Laptop 
VNC  -- Initial Install on Laptop
Real Server, Producer, Slideshow  -- Initial Install on Laptop
Windows Media  -- Initial Install on Laptop

Access Grid Evaluate and Install at 2 Special sites at ARL
  

WebEx http://www.webex.com/ This and 6 following from ERDC (Wayne Mastin)
Placeware http://www.placeware.com/
Evoke Communications http://vsnetcall.vstream.com/
Centra http://www.centra.com/
Vialog http://www.vialog.com/
ACT Teleconferencing http://www.acttel.com/
Astound http://www.astound.com/

WLS 
XMX
MBONE  
Blackboard  
WebCT  
Lotus Learning Space  

CUSeeMe  
PictureTel  
PolyCom  

Pure Asynchronous
	Derek multimedia database  
	gnutella/napster
	Microft Exchange Server (Furmanski is expert)
	WebDAV

bulletin board/mail list
	egroups.com
	hypernews

User support/helpdesk system -- Remedy (Web +Oracle)

Shared event Browser

Collaborative Visualization 
	DICE AVS (
	Using VNC NetMeeting or custom

"Science Whiteboard"
TekExplorer

Calendar (including multiple handheld and scripted multiple update)
Conferencing Management

Instant Messenger -- Security?
	AOL(IM ICQ)
	WebWisdom
	Public Domain
	Meta instant messengers (manage multiple profiles)

Chat Room? (Scientific Support)

NCSA Portal by Doug Fein

Known Sources of Information ***************************
ERDC Evaluation
	Placeware and others to come
	
Training Conference Reports (Mary B Walker, Jen Moses ARL)
OSC Survey
UIUC Survey


Notes *******
Installation of PC Tools will be on
Laptop with good Multimedia and Windows 2000