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I can’t image that! I just about to finish and complete a discussion paper on the User Interaction Issues on Wikipedia and now I have to start another review paper on Collaboration tools on Wikipedia. Please give me some air to breadth. I spend my Chinese New Years, trying to crack my brains to writing the discussion paper.

Anyway, this review paper, I guess I will be writing it alone as it is only a four to five paper paper. Maybe, I will took as two case studies both from open sources for a software production house to employ such practice. Before, it slips off my mind, this paper have to be written from the perspective of the information management.

Which are the two case studies?

1. Gallery Development Documents:
   http://codex.gallery2.org/Development
2. Documentation of phpMyVisites:
   http://www.phpmyvisites.us/documentation/Main_Page

Both of these two sites began off as a home based (student) project. Today, these two project have stretched out in the information industry due to it unique architecture that build in the project’s concept. Collaboration has taken place, information has been exchanged. Today, they become one of the powerful arising from no man island.

How do they do it? You have to ask them.

I am only going to cover how the collaboration have taken place using another tool, called Wikis and how web developer (especially the open source industry) have taken this as an advantage. This paper will give an idea for corporate organisation to adopted such system for their organisation to evolve and learn.

“… Look like I will not have another week to rest or sleep.”

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In less than an hour, I have uploaded two systems up to this server.

• Web Site Analytic System (http://www.phpmyvisites.us/)

• Photo Management System (http://gallery.menalto.com/)

The main idea of installing this system is as test bed (playground) for me to implement library 2.0 into any library service. Frankly, which I believe, the library can fully utilise these two software free for the daily operation. They are widely supported by the opensource community. All the library need to do, hired a digital resource librarian or an IT background staffs, who know about the element of web development (such as php, html, javascript, xml and asp.net). That will do the join to migrate you library up to library 2.0.

What can a Web Site Analytic System do for your library?

• Precise visitor statistics over a period of time (day/week/month/year).
• Visitor Frequency: new visitors, regular (known) visitors, and how often visitors view the web site.
• Management of web site statistics and all file types (PDF, Image, etc.).
• Web site page classification available (by groups, by subgroups, etc.).
• Visitor Analysis: Statistics for pages where visitors leave the web site and for pages where the visitors enter the web site.
• Geographical Statistics: Classification by continent/country (interactive world map).
• and a lot more…

What can a Photo Management System (Galleri) do for your library?

• Image Magick or NetPBM – pick which image manipulation package you have on your server or want to use.
• Auto Rotate Images – Gallery can look at information in pictures from digital cameras and automatically rotate them as needed.
• Image Quality and Size Defaults – You can limit the quality and size of images so that when images are uploaded, Gallery will resize them to save space.
• Main Gallery Page Settings – The configuration wizard contains all of the settings for how the main Gallery page looks and acts including showing or hiding the album tree, search engine, or album owner, and what frames to show around albums.
• … and heaps more.

Do check it out and implement this at your library. If you have any enquiries, please feel free to drop an email. In addition to that, I will share with you on some ideas on I will implement this open source tools into your library (or school)’s environment.

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Hrmm, 10hrs later, I send an email to my Professor for approval for my next Information Management term paper. On my mind and also Juffri’s, we are planning to write something on …

Topic 1: Exploring today’s IT System for Information Management Practices

Abstract: “…In a recent conference in Tuscany, Italy, July 2004 (International Conference on Decision Support Systems, 2004), a number of discussion paper has been presented in the relation of information flow within an organisation. Furthermore, to streamline line the information flow, DSS practitioners touch a number of research areas that is relevant and align to the information management and the system,…”

Topic 2: Disruptive Change and Academic Libraries from the Information Management Perspective

Abstract: “… Most library management have admired and tried to emulate their management structure to adopt the changes and also the abilities to innovate and execute as these information flow through their organisation’s environment. Yet, for many reasons, they still stumble due to bureaucracy, inadequate skills and resources…”

So, what do you think of the topic? And, I better not to post more after I finish and this paper is being accessed.

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I have upload a couple of plugins on this site for user to share and collaborate my ideas. Just that I have not yet activate the plugins yet.

Gosh, I need to run back to university, to finish up a term paper which is due on February 28th, 2007. The topic is quite interesting with the discussion and data collection in it. It is regarding “A Discussion of User Interaction Issues in Wikipedia using the Perceive of Usefulness and Ease of Use (Technology Acceptance Model).” This paper is written by three postgraduate student from Master of Science (Information Studies).

In this paper, we will be discuss about (i) Wikipedia in the Internet community, (ii) technology acceptance model (Davis, 1989), (iii) issues on perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use and (iv) data collection and intereptation (the discussion). For more information, I will be posting up more details on this term papers in a couple weeks of time.

For more information on Technology Acceptance Model:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_acceptance_model
2. http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/Technologyacceptancemodel.htm
3. http://www.guuspijpers.com/TAM.htm

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One pertinent reason that I am creating this site, it is due to document officially all the projects that I have done and implement. At the same time, this site will be a development blog that will follow my entire journey. It does not matter which organization or person, that I will be creating a project with and for, entries will be made in here. Therefore, do come back for more project sharing experience.

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