DigitalOcean: building a platform for scientific collaboration and social and media sharing on the Drupal content management system |
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| Authors: | Bruce Caron Dave Toole Paul Wicks Steve Miller |
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| Institution: | (1) New Media Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;(2) Outhink, Inc, San Mateo, CA, USA;(3) San Francisco, CA, USA;(4) Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
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| Abstract: | The DigitalOcean (DO) Project is designed to bring essential Web 2.0 capabilities to an open-source software platform built
for scientific collaboration and publishing. The DO platform is being built using the Drupal content management system (CMS).
The following are some of the core features of the proposed platform: social networking, media/data sharing/publishing, and
collaboration spaces for scientific virtual organizations (VO); active support for VO governance and reputation systems for
members and objects; Creative Commons licensing, support for preprint archives and micro-articles, and; professional user-profiles
that can be saved as well formatted biosketches. The DO platform serves as a collaboration environment for active research
teams, a personal repository for individual researchers, an aggregation/filter for science information, and a scientific publishing
tool. This article will outline the history and goals of the DO Project, the core technology concerns and solutions, and the
opportunities that this new platform will bring to scientists across the planet. |
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