ENVIRONMENTAL & MOLECULAR SCIENCES COLLABORATORY WORKSHOP

Workshop Goals

Define the scientific requirements for a productive Collaboratory. Discuss directions for Collaboratory development and the critical hardware, software, and social issues. Reach a common understanding of the status of collaboratory developments. Formulate specific plans for the Environmental and Molecular Sciences Collaboratory.

Thursday, March 17, 1994 - Framing Questions

The focus of this day will be to provide background information on the MSRC and EMSL, summarize work that has been done on the collaboratory concept in the past, and to establish a consistent view of the collaboratory concept among the workshop participants.

8:30 AM		Welcome - Mike Knotek

8:45 AM		Introduction - Dick Kouzes		
			*  Introduction of Participants		
			*  Overview		
			*  Workshop goals

9:00 AM		History of Collaboratory and Current Thinking - Bill Wulf (UVA)

10:00 AM 	Break

10:15 AM	MSRC, EMSL and EMSC Plans - Thom Dunning

11:15 PM	Collaboratories as Social Systems - Jim Wise		
			*  How social discourse is supported and controlled		
			*  Past and Future Lessons for the 'Props' of electronic social discourse

12:00 PM	Lunch brought in

1:00 PM		Media Spaces - Sara Bly (Xerox PARC)		
			* Facilitating Simultaneous Work

1:55 PM		Description of Goals of the Breakout Session - Dick Kouzes

2:00 PM		Breakout Session  on Molecular Science Collaboratory Issues	
		Each breakout group will work on a different area.			
		Participants are preassigned to groups		
		*  Group 1: Define the needs of researchers to collaborate remotely	
			Moderator - Ray Bair			
			Recorder - Herman Cho		
		*  Group 2: Define the social, legal, institutional issues affecting collaboration  			
			Moderator - Jim Wise			
			Recorder - Mike DeVaney		
		*  Group 3: Define a long term vision of pure collaborative science	
			Moderator - Jim Myers			
			Recorder - Dave McGee		
		*  Group 4: Define enabling technologies and critical challenges to collaboration  			
			Moderator - Jan Lewis			
			Recorder - Jim Schroeder

3:15 PM		Break

3:30 PM		Breakout Session Reports & Discussion (15 minutes each)

4:30 PM		Visualization Technology- Jim Thomas

5:15 PM		End Day

6:15 PM		Organized Informal Dinner - Tower Inn



Friday, March 18, 1994 - Providing Answers

The focus of this day will be to define the Molecular  and Environmental Science needs for a collaboratory, to identify the technologies that are required to meet those needs, and to develop ideas for short and long term projects that satisfy those needs.  This day will focus specifically on the Environmental & Molecular Sciences Collaboratory.

8:30 AM		Review of day one, statement of purpose for Day Two - Dick Kouzes

8:40 AM		Collaboratory Success Examples - John Wooley (DOE)

9:25 AM		Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory: A Case Study - Dan Atkins (UM)

10:10 AM 	Break

10:25 AM	Tele-experimentation  Instrumentation - Rachael Brady (NCSA)

11:05 AM	3D Microscopy Tele-experimentation - Rozeanne Steckler (SDSC)

11:35 AM	Collaboration in the Atmospheric Sciences: Field Observers, Modelers, and 		Laboratory Investigators - Dave Huestis (SRI)

12:05 PM	Lunch brought in

12:05 PM	Technical Demonstrations (VNS, mbones, mosaic) - Jim Schroeder

1:20 PM		Collaboratory Needs, An Industrial Perspective - Jon Meek (Am. Cyanamid)

1:50 PM		Description of Goals of the Breakout Session - Dick Kouzes

1:55 PM		Breakout Session - Goals of Collaboratory for Envir. & Mol. Science	
		Each breakout group will work on a different area.		
		Given the state of the art of collaboratory thinking and technology
 		discussed in day 1, what are the most useful projects to pursue?
		Participants are preassigned to groups		
		*  Group 1: Theory and Computational Environmental & Molecular Science
			Moderator - Ray Bair			
			Recorder - Rik Littlefield		
		*  Group 2: Small Instrumentation for Experimental Env. & Mol. Science
			Moderator - Jim Wise			
			Recorder - Mike Devaney		
		*  Group 3: Large Instrumentation for Experimental Env. & Mol. Science
			Moderator - Jim Myers			
			Recorder - Paul Keller		
		*  Group 4: Information Access and cross-disciplinary communication
			Moderator - Jan Lewis			
			Recorder - John Price

3:15 PM 	Break

3:25 PM		Report from Breakout Sessions on Goals of Collaboratory		
		Include discussion of those goals (15 minutes each)

4:25 PM		Discussion of Collaboratory Goals

4:45 PM		Synthesis of Collaboratory Vision and Goals - Thom Dunning

5:15 PM		Formal Workshop ends



Organizing Committee	
Dick Kouzes	
Jan Lewis	
Jim Myers	
Jim Schroeder	
Don Jones	
Thom Dunning	
Ray Bair	
Herman Cho	
Doug Ray	
Barry Wise	
Jim Wise	
Dave McGee