- Collaboration Platform (CP): 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: A person, usually a staff person or a research associate, who is responsible for access management to the CP. Tasks may include adding people to email lists, granting them wiki access controls, removing permissions, etc.
- COllaborator: A member of a collaboration who uses the tools of the CO but does not directly manage those tools.
- CO Registry: An identity registry of participants associated with a CO. The CO Registry is middleware that operates to support the CP.
- CP Admin: A person responsible for administration of the CP itself (as opposed to access management to the CP).
- Domesticated Application: An application that works well with enterprise infrastructure, typically by externalizing group management, authentication, and/or authorization.
- Power COllaborator: A COllaborator who has been delegated some management privileges by a COllabmin.
- Virtual Organization (VO): A group of individuals from multiple institutions that share common resources primarily via internet-enabled technologies.
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