I've been researching collaborative solutions engineering and design problems for years now, and it seems this is the year when systems for this will make their breakthrough. They've showed promise for some time and are now becoming available for implementation e.g. at the Jena conference that I attended - Proceedings at http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings.html.
I'm particularly interested in An Ontology-Based Architecture for
Adaptive Work-Centered User Interface Technology as this looks very useful
for large Aerospace and engineering companies such as those we deal with - -
http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings/crapo/paper.pdf,
http://jena.hpl.hp.com/juc2006/proceedings/crapo/slides.ppt.
We have also been using a Decision Support tool and are part of a modelling
network, an example of a model we added to this network to enable users to program and output
their model on the web is at http://wiki.vanguardsw.com/bin/browse.dsb?det/Engineering/Aerospace/Wing%20Spar%20Translated%20from%20Protege%20Taxonomy.
The projects are aimed at making it possible for end users who create Excel
spreadsheets to create software that becomes part of a more integrated
system. There are other projects that aim to enable users to create
searchable and interactive web based content more easily.
Some of the projects using Protégé may also be relevant to this http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ProjectsThatUseProtege.
These End User Groups in USA http://eusesconsortium.org/ and Europe http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/eud-net.htm may be able to take on this problem. If anyone has any information about projects to allow users to collaborate and create content please let me know.
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