At the CollobarateCom 2013 in Austin, TX, my colleague Petru Nicolaescu from the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University gave a presentation about our near real-time browser based collaborative modeling approach. As usual the slides are available in slideshare.
We are working on near real-time collaboration since a while and have now a couple of prototypes implementing use cases going beyond the support systems like Google Docs are offering. A field of particular interest is collaborative modeling. Modeling is a very complex activities and collaborative modeling demands a lot of communication among a community of modeling practitioners, especially when the community members have a different background or a different level of expertise in modeling. But the demand for collaborative modeling is growing since in many domains cost pressures and digitization are requesting more predictable processes and outcomes. In this presentation we have a community of teachers which are authoring courses using IMS LD. Tool support for IMS LD has been shown to be effective for the modeling process but current tools are limited in their usability, since they are not supporting collaborative activities or they are not Web-enabled and near real-time. Based on the ROLE framework we have realized the SyncLD prototype which has been evaluated in the METIS project.
We are working on near real-time collaboration since a while and have now a couple of prototypes implementing use cases going beyond the support systems like Google Docs are offering. A field of particular interest is collaborative modeling. Modeling is a very complex activities and collaborative modeling demands a lot of communication among a community of modeling practitioners, especially when the community members have a different background or a different level of expertise in modeling. But the demand for collaborative modeling is growing since in many domains cost pressures and digitization are requesting more predictable processes and outcomes. In this presentation we have a community of teachers which are authoring courses using IMS LD. Tool support for IMS LD has been shown to be effective for the modeling process but current tools are limited in their usability, since they are not supporting collaborative activities or they are not Web-enabled and near real-time. Based on the ROLE framework we have realized the SyncLD prototype which has been evaluated in the METIS project.
