Collaboration on annotation projects is in practice mostly done by people sharing the same room. However, several models for online cooperative annotation over the internet are possible. This paper explores and evaluates these, and reports on the use of peer-to-peer technology to extend a multimedia annotation tool (ELAN) with functions that support collaborative annotation.

aim and background: appropriate and comprehensive response to problems and needs of mental health services requires to employ participatory approaches. therefore, this literature review study aimed to assess interprofessional collaboration as one of the beneficial methods of delivering mental health services. methods and materials: in this review study, data was collected by searching electroni...

education has stepped to an ultra-place and time in 21st century. we have entered to digital and wireless communication century which mobile technologies have changed the process of education and instruction. the application of these mobile technologies for creation of knowledge, attitude and skill in learners is called mobile learning. the effectiveness of mobile learning programs requires new...

Idea Communities allow their users to contribute to a company’s innovation activities by sharing their ideas with the Community. These ideas are then improved according to the Mass-Collaboration principle. Due to the high diversity among the participants, a shared understanding and a common goal is hard to develop in a mass collaboration environment. According to Bounded Ideation Theo...

I treat the dynamics of interorganizational collaboration from a dialogue perspective. This extends the ‘exploitative’ and ‘explorative’ approaches that currently define scholarship on interorganizational collaboration. A dialogue perspective is argued to be particularly useful in understanding interorganizational efforts to tackle systemic issues that are technically as well as behavio...

A situation analysis was undertaken to assess impediments to health impact assessment (HIA) in the South-East Asia Region of WHO (SEARO). The countries of the region were assessed on the policy framework and procedures for HIA, existing infrastructure required to support HIA, the capacity for undertaking HIA, and the potential for intersectoral collaboration. The findings show that environmenta...

Prediction Markets are a relatively novel type of Group Decision Support System (GDSS) which use social collaboration via a market mechanism to elicit and aggregate information from large numbers of individuals. While the literature recognises their potential as decision support tools, it also notes several issues that give rise to concern regarding their utility in an organisational setting. O...

The current changes in health care systems challenge knowledgeable, mature and independent practitioners to integrate theoretical content with practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the problems of integrating theory with practice in selected clinical nursing situations. The study focused on rendering of family planning services to clients as a component of Community Nursing Science...

The paper describes the metrological hierarchy established for the dissemination of angle measurements from the “Dimensional Metrology Laboratory” (LAMIN) of the “National Institute of Metrology, Standardisation and Industrial Quality” (INMETRO). It shows the traceability chain from the national standard of length to the reference system, a small angle generator, and then to angle standards and...

The development of new technologies is giving rise to new models of collaboration. One of these models is “Mass Collaboration” that is based on Web 2.0 technologies and services. Within this context, wikis offer new possibilities to exploit in a more effective way the entire potential of the collaborative work coming from the active participation of all the individuals that are present in dispe...