- Collaboration Platform: A unified collection of services and middleware that is intended to hide the complexities of inter-organizational collaboration, enabling Scientists, Researchers, Educators and any one else needing to work together to concentrate on their work instead of being frustrated by technological limitations. Services may include messaging (email, calendaring and scheduling, and contacts), team collaboration (file synchronization, ideas and notes in a wiki, task management, full-text search), real-time collaboration and communication (e.g., presence, instant messaging, Web conferencing, application / desktop sharing, voice, audio and video conferencing), and Social Computing tools (e.g., blog, wiki, tagging, RSS, shared bookmarks).*
- Collaborative Organization (CO): A Virtual Organization, but with additional capabilities allowing for collaborators to use their institutional (university) identities and services. A CO provides the essential IT infrastructure supporting collaborations between people among separate institutions overcoming the traditional boundaries of Internet applications.
- COllabmin:
- COllaborator:
- CO Registry:
- Domestication:
- Integration:
- Virtual Organization (VO): A group of individuals from multiple institutions that share common resources primarily via internet-enabled technologies.
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