Introduction to SciSpace

SciSpace.net has been created to provide an environment for collaboration, and is using the elgg software to provide the infrastructure. The idea for SciSpace.net has arisen from the growth in social network sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, and the idea that such sites could also be adapted to education (eLearning). 

SciSpace.net gives you a number of opportunities:

1. Ability to add content in blogs and wikis, and to add comments on both;
2. Ability for this content to be associated with you as an individual, or as part of a community;
3. Ability to form and join communities;
4. A fine control over access limitations, ranging from very tight control to full public access;
5. Ability to create groups as part of the access control mechanisms;
6. Scope to create and edit a personal profile to present information about your interests and expertise;
7. Ability to add detailed tags to enable other members of SciSpace.net to find you in order to establish a new collaboration;
8. Ability to create friends;
9. Ability to track new content;
10. Ability to aggregate content via RSS.
    

Like many initiatives in this area, SciSpace.net is pushing forward into new territories, and thus you may find that the vision we have should be extended, and that some of the functionality could be extended. Thus we have provided the community SciSpace discussion to enable you to provide comments.

martin, 28-May-2007 15:21 (GMT)