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Public Knowledge Project:

Been taking a look at teis project from the University of British Columbia. I like the approach

"...the Public Knowledge Project is also evaluating ways of integrating research studies with other forms of knowledge, including documents pertaining to, in the case of the social sciences, for example, practices, programs, and policies. It is also looking at ways of integrating this research with access to digital archival sources, whether consisting of documents or multimedia files. It is assessing the collaborative potential of knowledge sharing among communities of interest, in such areas as education, with an eye to reducing the theory-practice and research-policy gaps. It uses an iterative and participatory design model that will involve professionals, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, and the public in building and evaluating a series of collaborative knowledge management website prototypes."

The web site is a bit esoteric but has links to some interesting sites and a few research papers. What particularly caught my eye was a couple of Open Source products - one - Open Conference Systems - for organising conferences and the other - Open Journal Systems (OJS) - for hosting on line journals. Both these could be very useful. Moreover, they join a growing list of open source products and tools which match the real life workflow in which educationalists and researchers work - rather than trying to impose their own structures and ways of working.