The afterlife of 'living deliverables': angels or zombies?

Living deliverables: angels or zombies?
2ndInternational Workshop on Research 2.0, September 28, 2010, Barcelona, Spain
Fridolin Wild, Thomas Ullmann
The Open University

Living Deliverables
Deliverable:pre-defined, tangible, and verifiable work product; report on progress against tasks
Living deliverable: continuously edited with lively activity beyond official delivery deadline;wiki
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… prior work … method … analysis … outlook

Sunword Glyph (Arazy et al., 2010)
Detailed Glyph (Arazy et al., 2010)
Prior Work
WikiChanges: Sparklines (Nunes et al., 2008)
Focus on individual articles
History Flow (Viegas et al., 2004)

Prior Work (2)
Corporate Knowledge Sharing analysed with Sonivis (Baumgrass et al., 2008)
Different scope or different wiki use
Revert Graphs (Suh et al., 2007)
Meso-Zoom Analysis (Jesus et al., 2009)

Life after deadline
Angel:cheerful editing activity of a coherent set of pages of a deliverable also after deadline
Zombie: Low or no editing activity after deadline
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Method of Analysis
Data extraction from latest changes feed and versioning history in database
Statistics on revision histories
Social Network Analysis using revision history
Co-authorship networks: two people edit the same page = co-authorship: IMA,Tx IMTA,T
Bipartite author-page networks: person edits page = directed edge from person to page: AMA∧P, A∧P

Observed Living Deliverables
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Average: 22.7 users, 3 820 page views, selected from 14 living deliverables, thereby excluding small group works and obvious zombies (no editing activity from the first day)

Cumulated Edits over Lifetime
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Co-authorship network of d6.3
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Co-Authorship net w/o ‘Home’
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Page-author net before deadline
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D6.3

Page-author net after deadline
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D6.3

Other deliverables after deadline
D7.1
D6.2
D1.1
D1.2 became a ‘zombie’ (in the period of analysis – might be an angel by today)

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Discussion
Limit: Don’t mistake wiki co-authorship for overall collaboration on a deliverable
Limit: Small set of wikis investigated
Found: Way to make activities more transparent
Found: There are phases in life
Found: Shift in focus after delivery
Outlook: differentiation of editing types
Outlook: animation over time
Outlook: reflection tool about collaboration?

Beware, the end is near.
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