Related Concepts

Databases

Databases are good at presenting their data to users in flexible and changable ways. Thier information is stored in "cells", which are typically numerical (rather than textual). The flexibility is supported by database operations, such as sorting, joining, and reporting data. These operations allow the information to be viewed in many ways. A query langauge is used to specify a particular view, and also to change them.

Data Bases + Query languages are usually very formal. They are good for numbers, but bad for concepts (such as uncertainty, ill-structured information, differing opinions, etc).

Documentation and Artifact

The reason documentation exists is to provide us with the information we need in order to do something. It's the doing that is the essential thing.

Documentation is most effective if it is integrated with the thing that it documents. Better context for learning, less effort to access, less time away from the doing.

In this spirit, DynaSites tries to integrate information about Dynasites (the documentation) with the information content of the Dynasites Documents (the artifact).

Links to Related Systems and Approaches

Computer-Supported Collaborative Argumentation

Tom's CSCW & Groupware Index

Computer Conferencing on the Web (Discussion Forums and Groupware)

Collaborative Conferencing

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