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ElggSpace: Extension of Elgg SNS for Supporting Collaborative Workspace

ElggSpace: 협업 워크스페이스를 지원하는 Elgg SNS의 확장

  • Cha, Won-Jun (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Park, Jongmoon (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Lee, Myung-Joon (School of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • Received : 2014.01.15
  • Accepted : 2014.02.17
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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Abstract

Recently, SNS is widely used for various purposes such as fast decision making or effective business process in educational institutions or enterprise as well as general services for social networking. Unfortunately, all of existing general SNS platforms do not provide user groups with workspaces for sharing information in a hierarchical way, nor support the functionality of workspace backup for migrations. In this paper, we present a collaborative workspace environment named ElggSpace which extends the Elgg SNS platform with the C3ware collaborative middleware. With the help of C3ware, ElggSpace systematically supports collaborative workspaces that enable user groups to share massive resource in cloud storages. In addition, ElggSpace allows high-level access controls for resources management and the functionality of resource backup, supporting effective collaboration.

현재 SNS는 일반적인 소셜 커뮤니케이션 기능과 더불어 회사나 교육기관 등의 다양한 분야에서 빠른 의사결정이나 효율적인 업무처리 등에 널리 활용되고 있다. 하지만 기존의 일반적인 SNS 플랫폼들은 사용자 그룹을 위한 계층적인 협업 워크스페이스 환경이나 마이그레이션을 위한 워크스페이스 백업 기능을 제공하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 협업 미들웨어인 C3ware를 이용하여 Elgg SNS 플랫폼을 확장한 협업 워크스페이스 환경인 ElggSpace에 대해서 설명한다. ElggSpace는 클라우드 스토리지 기반의 C3ware와 연동하여 사용자 그룹의 대용량 자원 공유를 위한 협업 워크스페이스를 체계적으로 지원한다. 이와 더불어 ElggSpace는 자원 관리를 위한 고수준의 접근제어와 워크스페이스 백업기능을 제공하여 효과적인 협업을 가능하게 한다.

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