Content-Centered Collaboration Spaces in the Cloud

  • Authors:
  • John Erickson;Michael Rhodes;Susan Spence;David Banks;James Rutherford;Edwin Simpson;Guillaume Belrose;Russell Perry

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Labs, Norwich;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol;Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Emphasizing communication, collaborative work, and community, the authors envision a cloud-based platform that inverts the traditional application-content relationship by placing content rather than applications at the center, enabling users to rapidly build customized solutions around their content items. The future of collaboration will focus on building and sustaining communities around content, tasks, and ideas. Hosted entities known as content spaces will support ecosystems of users and developers around this content. To make their case, the authors review the dominant trends in computing that motivate the exploration of new approaches for content-centered collaboration and discuss ways to address certain core problems for users and organizations.