ToolsCollaboration

= Collaboration Tools Employed by this Community =


 * Most of the distributed collaboration support infrastructure and tools are provided by CIM Engineering, Inc. (on their CIM3.NET CoP platform)
 * Range of Tools supplied by CIM Engineering. (see post)

Asynchronous (Different Time) Collaboration Tools

 * E-mail Archive - info
 * Wiki - you are looking at it now overview and instructions
 * File Sharing Workspace / Document Repository - under http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
 * File Sharing Workspace Access (see below)


 * Navigation & Access Support:
 * Full-text Search
 * Fine grain (paragraph level) access and linking via [Purple Numbers]
 * PurpleNumbers on-the-fly for most web pages available through PurpleSlurple

Synchronous (Same Time) Collaboration Tools

 * Telephone Conference Session Setup -- FreeConference


 * Real-time Shared Screen -- TightVNC (also ref VNC)
 * typically, all you need to do is to point your (java-enabled) browser to  and enter the password when prompted
 * for access during a hosted vnc session, see authentication below.
 * your network (router/firewall) should be configured to allow TCP port 5800 traffic on your Internet access for the above to work properly.
 * users who are behind a firewall (and do not have access to TCP port 5800 traffic) and is blocked from accessing the VNC server may consider running the VNC viewer locally. We have configured our VNC server to serve the shared screen traffic over port 80 (which is generally allowed in most settings).
 * to do that, you will need to download the tightvnc package or the viewer (check here to see the revision level of the tightVNC host system, which would the version you should use), and install that on your machine.
 * then, start (open) the tightvnc viewer on your machine, and, for the VNC server address, typically enter:  (note: two colons) and enter the password when prompted
 * again, for access during a hosted vnc session, see authentication below.
 * there will still be cases (e.g. for those who are behind tight corporate firewalls) where shared screen access will not be supported by your IT policy. Under those circumstances, one will have to download whatever intended material (say, a powerpoint slide deck) first, and then open it up locally, and follow the prompt by whoever is running the session to get in sync manually.


 * Instant Messaging -- ICQ (preferred), although others like AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo!Messenger are supported too.
 * For windows user, try Trillian, this client supports any/all of the above IM sessions (even IRC too).
 * Linux users could use GAIM or licq

File Sharing Workspace / Document Repository

 * Read (and download) access is done through your web browser; Write access (upload) is done through WebDAV file transfer.
 * FTP is no longer supported (due to its inadequate security, and vulnerability.)


 * WebDAV access can be made, for example, with the following platforms:
 * Unix / Linux - with cadaver (see: http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/)
 * MS Windows - through "add network places" and then assigning the http address as the network location; setting it up as a webfolder.
 * Apple Mac's - through "connect to network | WebDAV server"
 * as well as from within a good number of web editors (like Mozilla SeaMonkey, Dreamweaver, MS-FrontPage , ... )
 * for more information about uploading files to our WebDAV server, refer to: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess#nid325


 * The following directories are accessible as indicated:

Browser Access URL                          WebDAV Location                           Password Access by     Typical (Recommended) Use

http://ontolog.cim3.net                     http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/portal*               E, A

http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/work           http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/work *                M, A     Workspace; project work; meeting records; repository of the community's work documents generally for content that this community has IPR on (e.g. community contributions, project work by the community, or one of its workgroups, etc.) . http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource       http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/resource *            M, A     Library; sharing of external content collected; repository of other resources generally for content that this community does not have IPR on, but is allowed to openly re-publish (e.g. public domain content, open standards documents, etc.)

http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/community*     http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/file/community *      M, A     the workspace is password protected (rudimentary, and role-based though) generally for content that the community does not want to be crawled by search engines (e.g. members contact lists, meeting records where some privacy on the discussion is desired, etc.) . http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ontolog-admin* http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/file/ontolog-admin *  A

http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/pub            http://ontolog.cim3.net:80/file/pub            everyone   File-sharing workspace with people outside the community akin to 'anonymous ftp' workspace

M = ontolog-member (pw : see below) E = ontolog-editor (e-mail [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com Peter Yim] for password) A = ontolog-admin (e-mail [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com Peter Yim] for password)
 * = password authentication required;


 * See upload instructions. Note that the [ontolog] workspace is an "open" CWE.
 * If you have any question about cwe workspace access, feel free to e-mail them to [mailto:peter.yim@cim3.com Peter Yim].

Access and Authentication

 * The general authentication pair for the ontolog community (for the role of "ontolog community members") is:

User Name = "ontolog-member"  (without the " ") Password = "ontology"         (without the " ")


 * please make sure the files you upload to our shared-file workspace is named according to our filenaming convention described below.
 * please make sure the files you upload to our shared-file workspace is named according to our filenaming convention described below.


 * In the case of VNC (synchronous shared screen access), unless otherwise specified, we will use the following passwords:

View-only password = "ontolog"   (without the " ") View-and-control pw = "ontology" (without the " ")

Reference

 * CWE Shared-File Workspace structure, access policy and instructions -- see: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FileWorkspaceAccess


 * File Naming Convention - please name your uploaded file according to the Ontolog filenaming convention as outlined in: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2004-02/msg00029.html
 * this is intended to help us captured some basic metadata of the file into the filename, and do a simple versioning.


 * WebDAV - Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. See: http://www.webdav.org/


 * VNC connectivity FAQ
 * See: http://ubl.cim3.org/~lcsc/collaboration_tools/VNC_connectivity_faq.html
 * Screen-sharing for users behind firewalls. see: http://community.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CweAdmin/CollaborationToolSupport#nidAW
 * see also: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2003-06/msg00013.html
 * To run the VNC-viewer from your desktop (thus circumventing the need to open up port 5800 at your firewall), the tightvnc viewer can be downloaded from: http://www.tightvnc.org/download.html. Download the version (check here to see the revision level of the tightVNC host system, which would the version you should use) that is designed for your platform, and invoke the viewer locally after you have installed it on your machine.
 * for more details, see: TightVNC (also ref VNC)


 * Configuring your firewall to allow MS-NetMeeting to work properly
 * See: http://ubl.cim3.org/~lcsc/collaboration_tools/NetMeeting_firewall_config.html