Slides for Chandler Virtuality presentation:

• Virtuality_Part_Two_Staff.ppt:
• Virtuality_Part_Two_Staff.pdf:

Some background on the presentation (taken from an OSAF blog posting):

Last Tuesday, I made a Design presentation to OSAF staff about the Chandler Virtuality: What it is today, the workflows it is designed to support and how it will mature into an extensible platform in the future.

Our working definition of virtuality is: The quality of unity and robustness of the shared imagined space.

Goals of the presentation:

1. Provide the vision and motivation for Chandler's design.
2. Establish a concrete, multi-dimensional user-centric conception of how information is stored and organized in Chandler both to provide context for development efforts in the 0.6 timeframe as well as to provide a focal point for development efforts moving forward in 0.7 and beyond.
3. In addition, we wanted to...

Demonstrate how Chandler's virtuality will:

• Feel familiar to users
• Meet their organizational needs
• Scale to deal with a lot of data
• Make room for Chandler as an extensible platform

By:

• Presenting research and user-based studies
• Explaining the conceptual model behind the design
• Demonstrating how the conceptual model is realized in the UI
• Comparing and contrasting our design with alternatives

We intend to turn this presentation into a more coherent write-up and a series of screencasts. Hopefully, I will post something to the blog over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, some related reading if you're interested can be found at:

Clay Shirky's article on Ontologies A long, but interesting blog posting comparing fixed hierarchical taxonomies and more free-form "items in a soup" organizational systems.

• PrefaceToHierarchyPapers
• HierarchyPapers
• HierarchyVersusFacetsVersusTags

• ChandlerHow.ppt: