Spring 2000, TAM Course “Designing the Information Society of the Next Millennium” — Ernesto Arias and Gerhard Fischer

Assignment 7

Dynasite — A substrate to create end-user extensible, web-based information repositories

due: post on web by Monday, Feb. 28, 10:00am

In preparation for the guest lecture on Dynasite, please do the following:

1. Please describe (very briefly) for what purposes you have used Dynasite so far in the course?

1. based on your use so far: what do you consider

   1. the strength of Dynasite?

   2. the weaknesses of Dynasite?

1. please visit the Dynasite website, browse it, and evaluate it (what is good with the website? what is wrong with it? how could it be improved?)

   1. please add your answer for this question to Dynasites,

   2. if you have any relevant concept in your text please highlight them using double quote, such as, "symmetry of ignorance."

   3. in case this concept exists in DynaGloss, it will be automatically linked to the glossary

   4. go to DynaGloss and see whether or not you agree with the current definition of this concept, if not, add you personal definition.

   5. in case the concept is not defined in DynaGloss, go there and add your personal definition, and DynaGloss will automatically link it to your text

1. have you worked with similar substrates such as Dynasite? If yes:

   1. which ones?

   2. in which sense are they stronger or weaker than Dynasite!

   3. other systems you may look at for comparison:

      1. Yahoo Clubs http://groups.yahoo.com/

      2. eGroups http://groups.yahoo.com/

Feel free to work together in groups!