LibGuides: Water in California: Virtual Collaboration Tools

Establishing Time Estimates

This valuable time management tool can help calculate the amount of time needed to complete a research project. Shared with UCM by Monica Fusich of the Henry Madden Library at Cal State University, Fresno

Research Project Calculator

A similar tool for generating project timelines, developed for Minnesota secondary students, which includes presentation annd video assignment project types in addition to a research paper.

Additional Tools

Archaeology Data Service
The Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with freely available, high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies.
Bamboo DiRT (Digital Resource Tools)
A tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT is an evolution of Lisa Spiro's DiRT wiki and makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software.
BioCatalogue
Provides a curated catalog of Life Science Web Services
Bio Distributed Annotation System
Defines a communication protocol used to exchange annotations on genomic or protein sequences. It is motivated by the idea that such annotations should not be provided by single centralized databases, but should instead be spread over multiple sites. Data distribution, performed by DAS servers, is separated from visualization, which is done by DAS clients. The advantages of this system are that control over the data is retained by data providers, data is freed from the constraints of specific organisations and the normal issues of release cycles, API updates and data duplication are avoided.
COSEE - Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence
COSEE Network serves as a window to ideas, information, and resources that connect and celebrate ocean sciences teaching, learning, and scientific discovery at all levels. The overarching goal is to increase and enhance collaboration and communications among ocean scientists, educators, and the general public
Galaxy Project for Biomedical sciences
Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. Whether on the free public server or your own instance, you can perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses.
Myexperiment - workflows shared
myExperiment makes it easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other Research Objects, and to build communities. A collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and in silico experiments, share them with groups and find those of others. Workflows, other digital objects and bundles (called Packs) can now be swapped, sorted and searched like photos and videos on the Web.
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
KNB is an international repository intended to facilitate ecological and environmental research.Data management software is developed in a free and open source manner, so other groups can build upon the tools. The KNB is powered by the Metacat data management system, and is optimized for handling datasets described using the Ecological Metadata Language, but can store any XML-based document.
Nanohub
A resource for nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanoHUB.org was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
National Center for Atmospheric Research: Community Earth System Model (CSEM)
CESM is a fully-coupled, community, global climate model that provides state-of-the-art computer simulations of the Earth's past, present, and future climate states. CESM is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Administration of the CESM is maintained by the Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
RCSB Protein Data Bank
An informational portal to biological macromolecular structures
Virtual Language Observatory
From here you can explore the world of language resources and technology from different perspectives.

Project Management & Collaboration Tools

Asana: A task-centered, "agile" approach to team project management. Integrates with Google Drive and Dropbox for file sharing.

Box offers enterprise cloud storage with sync to multiple devices and goes a step beyond Dropbox with the ability to track versions of files and more finely manage/assign documents to other people.

Dropbox is a storage and collaborative file management tool. It can sync across devices, and to other applications like Asana and Trello, and many more. the more you share it and usse it, the more free space you acquire.

Evernote: This note-taking tool syncs across devices helps get you organized for free. Files can be shared, collaborative tasks require the fee-based version. Integrates with Remember the Milk for task management.

Google Drive : Create and share documents, presentations and more; sync them among mobile and desktop devices.

LabGuru is cloud-based software for running a (life sciences)
research group and provides an online space to compile papers, images, protocols and share with team.

Remember the Milk - free task manager can help you get organized with its simple set-up of to-do lists. You can add tasks through e-mail or even with Siri!

Teambox: Free up to 5 users. Manage tasks, content (with Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox support) and communicate in real-time.

Trello: A collaborative tool that allows one to create a visual board (based on "kanban approach")
for organizing your project using "cards" for tasks, ideas, issues.

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