Collaboration. Act of working together Catalan castellers collaborate, working together with a shared goal Collaboration (from Latin com- "with" + laborare "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal.[1] Collaboration is similar to cooperation.
Most collaboration requires leadership,[vague] although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.[2] Teams that work collaboratively often access greater resources, recognition and rewards when facing competition for finite resources.[3] Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability. "Collaboration" over the World Wide Web is a very broad area of research, involving wide-reaching issues such as knowledge representation, annotation of objects by objects, notification, and any other issues which arise in the creation of shared information systems and collaborative development.
This document, begun in 1995, describes a number of W3C activities relating to collaboration, knowledge representation and Web automation. It should not be considered up to date, but might nevertheless be useful. Contents: Overview | Timeline | Implementations | Resources | Historical. Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the ...