The goal of iDiag is to foster community-wide, short-term brainstorming or discussion, on the order of days or weeks, and preserve that community knowledge. But an unstructured discussion will result in the standard nest of topics and messages. Therefore the project has created tools to help people distill the topics and messages from the discussion. The idea is be to create something that can be used for further reflection and discussion. iDiag consists of two tools - iDiag/CyberForum and iDiag/Consolidate More>

Online discussions such as a large-scale community brainstorming often end up with an unorganized bramble of ideas and topics that are difficult to reuse. A process of distillation is needed to boil down a large information space into information that is concise and organized. Arkose is a system-augmented approach to the problem - a set of tools with which human editors can collaboratively distill a large amount of informal information. More>