Faculty focus group 1

Description: As a step in the assessment of the September 2004 Alpha “developer” release of LionShare 0.4, a focus group was held with eight faculty members and two staff members, any of whom would likely be potential users of the software. About half of these individuals trace their involvement back to the predecessor of LionShare, the 2001-2003 Virtual Image User Study (VIUS) Group 1 PDF. Posted: 11-12-2004

Faculty focus group 2

Description: As a step in the assessment of the September 2004 Alpha “developer” release of LionShare 0.4, a focus group was held with eight faculty members and two staff members, any of whom would likely be potential users of the software. About half of these individuals trace their involvement back to the predecessor of LionShare, the 2001-2003 Virtual Image User Study (VIUS) Group 2 PDF.  Posted: 11-12-2004

LionShare Whitepaper

Description: An overview of the LionShare project, including a year one status report as of September, 2004. This document outlines the past, present, and future of the LionShare project. WhitePaper PDF Posted: 11-15-2004

Mellon Grant Proposal

Description: With support from the Mellon Foundation, the Visual User Image Study (VIUS) discovered how digital images are used at Penn State for teaching, research, and outreach. Through extensive contact with stakeholders, the VIUS team identified criteria that point to the need for more flexible, user-controlled tools and services for discovery, organization, management, and sharing of personal and public images. Many of the features that stakeholders identified suggested a much different model of collaboration is needed- one that places much more control in the hands of the end user than currently available in large central repositories and that peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies offer many of these features. The VIUS team determined that peer-to-peer technologies offer unique opportunities to enable greater access and use of personal and publicly available image collections and that a prototype was warranted because the vast majority of digital images reside in private collections and that a prototype was warranted because the vast majority of digital images reside in private collections and that access to and integration of public image collections is problematic. The LionShare propsal emerges from lessons learned from VIUS. Mellon Grant Proposal PDF Posted: 11-25-2003