
CoPe_it! – Tool of the “Web 2.0 Era Collaboration by Sharing Opinions and Resources
http://copeit.cti.gr/
It lets webizens easily collaborate by sharing opinions and resources. It enables and encourages participation in private or public community workspaces. With CoPe_it!, you can: a) Create a personal or collaborative workspace; b) Join and contribute to a workspace; c) Add and share new content through a workspace; d) Content may consist of ideas, comments, notes or any other type of multimedia documents that exist on a local PC or around the Internete) Explore the existing content of a workspace; f) Content may be moved around the workspace, thus serving visualization and organization purposes; and g) Content may be meaningfully grouped or interrelated. CoPe_it! is a simple, scalable and sensible tool. Simple interfaces enable even non IT-experienced users to contribute and explore input. A scalable approach has been followed to accommodate the diversity of users’ requests; features and functionalities offered range from merely human-understandable to machine-interpretable ones. Sensible conclusions can be produced by exploiting the diverse views of a workspace. CoPe_it! fosters the growth of and augments the collaboration within communities. It enhances the production and overall management of collective knowledge. It builds on an argumentative collaboration approach that allows communities’ members to express their point of view on the opinions and resources of a workspace. This has been adde dto the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
