online collaboration

tool: Google Docs

Purpose: 

Google Docs is a free, web-based service provided by Google for word processing and the creation of spreadsheets, presentations, forms and drawings. The cloud-computing application allows users to create, edit, upload, share and store data online in a variety of file formats similar to any office suite.

Features: 
  • Shared folders and multiple file uploads with an individual file storage limit of 1GB.
  • Allows multiple users to create and update live documents in collaboration.
  • Translation and detection of up to 40 languages online and offline as well as dictionary definitions.
  • Supported on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and mobile browsers.
  • Available in 48 languages.
  • Automatic saving of open documents with revision history.
  • Insertion and editing of mathematical equations and symbols in documents.
  • Snap-to grid guides for automatic object alignment.
  • A choice of 70 themes to add colour to surveys and questionnaires created with forms.
  • Improved find-and-replace toolbar.
  • Strict and lenient levels of validation in spreadsheets for controlled project collaboration.
  • New version will include a chat function as well as drag-and-drop columns and editable formula bars in spreadsheets.
A&H use case 1 description: 
The project provides free MP3 streaming and downloadable recordings of performances by British and Irish musicians made between 1900 and 1950, accessible through an online search interface. Around 2000 recordings from King's College archives were digitised and made accessible alongside almost 3000 digitised recordings from the CHARM project (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music).
Creator: 
Google Inc
Data capture: 
Manual input and transcription
Communication and collaboration: 
Textual interaction (asynchronous)
Specifications: 
Portable Document Format (PDF)
XML
HTML
Excel Document (.xsl)
Powerpoint Document (.ppt)
Rich Text Format (RT)
Image Documents (.jpg) (.gif) (.png) (.tiff) (.bmp) Open Office
Word Document (.doc)
lifecycleStage: 
creation
structuring
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Collaborative publishing
Alternate tool(s): 

Buzzword, Zoho, ThinkFree

Tags: 
drawing
online collaboration
data storage
cloud computing
word processing
spreadsheets
presentations
Platform: 
JavaScript enabled browser
Licence: 
Free
Software/programming languages used: 
Google Docs
By danafarra at Tue, 08/06/2010 - 11:33

cfp: CFP: Handwriting Recognition and Collaborative Editing

Closing Date: 
15/09/2009

The Digital Medievalist Community of Practice
(http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/) is sponsoring two sessions at the
Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 7-10,

Discipline: 
Classics and Ancient History
English Language and Literature
Modern Languages
Tags: 
OCR
online collaboration
Medieval Manuscripts
Collaborative publishing
medieval studies
By dot.porter at Thu, 20/08/2009 - 14:23

cfp: AHM2009: Past, Present and Future

Closing Date: 
30/06/2009

This year, the UK's All Hands Meeting will take place in Oxford, UK http://www.allhands.org.uk

Tags: 
high performance computing
online collaboration
e-research
distributed computing
e-science
By Lydia Horstman at Thu, 14/05/2009 - 17:27

event: Models of Partnership in Digital Research

Jointly organised by the Department of English, Sheffield Hallam University and Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield. Fifth in a series of day colloquia.

Douglas Knoop Centre, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield
(for location details see http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/location/map.html)

PROGRAMME

9.15-10.45

Tags: 
online collaboration
By Torsten Reimer at Thu, 01/05/2008 - 18:00

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