[OWW-SC] $200k NSF SGER grant for Wiki research to U of Colorado

[John Cumbers]

hey, yeah, I think you should drop them a note Mac,
cheers,
John

On 2/17/07, Mackenzie Cowell <macowell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just read<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/nsf_looking_for.html>that the University of Colorado was awarded a $200,000 SGER grant from the
> NSF to develop " A New Generation Wiki for Supporting a Research Community
> in Creativity and IT<http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0709304>."
> Based on their abstract (excerpt below) it sounds like they are trying to
> develop a wiki framework that would be a boon to oww.  Should we touch base
> with them?
>
> The proposed research will create environments that go beyond existing
> Wikis (being primarily focused on hypertext) to permit the integration (not
> just attachment) of other forms of media ranging from movies and animations,
> to sharing of datasets, to the creation and utilization of social network
> information to support community interaction, to conceptual mind-mapping
> media.
>
> Mac
>
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