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Name of Collaboratory :
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Peirce Online Resource Testbed (PORT)
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URL :
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http://peirce.monmouth.edu |
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Collaboratory Status
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| In Development
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Start Date :
1989
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End Date :
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Primary Collaboratory Function :
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Community Data Systems |
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Secondary Collaboratory Functions :
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Product Development, Virtual Community of Practice, Distributed Research Center |
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Domain(s)
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Philosophy |
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Brief Description
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The purpose of the PORT collaboratory is to digitize, transcribe, annotate, and analyze the collected manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce located at Harvard University's Houghton Library. The archive contains approximately 100,000 unpublished pages on high acid paper, which are expected to survive only another 50 years if unhandled. PORT's main foci are to develop a model collaboratory for distributed scholarly Peirce manuscript analysis, and to meta-model the testbed development process, making use of Peirce's pragmatism to help guide collaboratory participants in the design process.
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Access to
Instruments :
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Not Applicable |
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Access to
Information Resources :
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PORT's operations will include:
1. Manuscript image archiving and transcription (to produce both digital images and text-based "raw data" for resource development)
2. Conceptual catalogue construction (to provide accurate access to the manuscript and text bases that can be tailored for different research perspective)
3. Collaborative editing support environments (to improve the efficiency of contributing editorial work in creating editions, whether these are developed as critical, genetic, or dialogic editions, in terms of the emerging distinctions in editorial theory)
4. Research community management infrastructure (to coordinate communication activities among participating researchers). |
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Access to
People as Resources :
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Virtual community of practice to share information and ideas through annotations on the digitized texts |
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Notes on Participants/Organizations:
102 participating members
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Communications Technology
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Annual meetings involve a varying group of the 102 members meet to discuss current issues in their own symposium/workshops.
* Generic tools: mailers, the PORT mailing list, the PORT websites
* Specialized work tools: Inote (a tool for collaboration that provides the capabilities to locate and attach notes to areas on images); Transview (a tool that provides two different views of the same material. This allows one to view the original of a document or image and a transformation of it); CORE (the Collaboration Online Research Environment. This is a tool that provides information management capabilities for collaborators)
* Knowledge representation tools: various CG and FCA tools
* Design tools: RENISYS, AUGMENT, etc.
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Technical
Capabilities :
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Asynchronous object sharing
Index/metadata, General search capability, Vetted knowledge based of multiple authors, "Handoff" authoring, Email/attachments
Asynchronous conversation
Annotation on objects, Email
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Key Articles : |
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de Moor, A., Keeler, M., & Richmond, G. (2002). Towards a pragmatic web. in Priss, U., Corbett, D., & Angelova, G. (editors). Conceptual structures: Integration and interfaces: 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2002, Borovets, Bulgaria, July 15-19, 2002 Proceedings. (pp. 235-249). Berlin: Springer.
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