# Presentation: 817241

## Web 2.0

**Presenter:** Katie Cunningham
**Date:** February 11, 2009

- National Aeronautics and Space Administration

- www.nasa.gov

## What is Web 2.0?

- Separation of structure and content
- Communication between different sites
- Web as a platform
- User generated content

**Notes:**
Depends on who you ask

## Structure and Content

**Notes:**
Missions example
 - Lots of missions on the site
 - Needed a report with ALL missions 
 - Took no time, since it was just a database query

## Structure and Content

**Notes:**
Missions have a lot of data within them... We’d like to use that data in many places, but don’t want to worry about keeping lots of files updated.

Enter once, reuse over and over!

## Communication

**Notes:**
Points - saves duplication of effort

Image of the day - Comes from NASA.gov. Update one place, update several sites.

## Communication

**Notes:**
For mission data, there’s no need to keep a webmaster up to date. We pull a feed from a business system to populate launch dates for missions.

## Web as a Platform

- Movement away from applications living on the desktop
- Install once, access anywhere
- Dynamic updates
- Open-Source and highly customized solutions

## User Generated Content

- Freedom to share with many at once
- Dynamically organize data
- Built in security
- 	Subversion + Trac
- 	Fileshare
- 	SpaceBook

**Notes:**
Security - Gets around the ‘I’ll just email it’ syndrome. We know they’re playing by the rules.

## User Generated Content - SpaceBook

- Social Networking Application
- Intended for internal use only
- Uses:
- Dynamic creation of working and casual groups
- Allow people to create connections within the organization
- Generate discussion and interaction amongst peers
- Mechanism for finding experts in other divisions

## Profile

- One stop for all information about a user
- Customizable fields
- Shows:
- Personal information
- Contributions to the site
- Connections
- Groups and projects
- Tags

## Photos

- Shows images uploaded by users
- Features:
- Commenting
- Number times viewed
- Photo details

## Blogs

- Blogging allows all users to create and share blogs
- Features:
- Create blogs
- View friends blogs
- Commenting
- Tagging

## Groups

- Casual gatherings of people with a common interest
- Features:
- Anyone can join
- Discussion area
- Wiki
- Tagging

## Status Updates

- Short, fast updates to let others know what you’re doing
- Features:
- Can choose to see all users, or only selected users (‘followed’ users)‏
- Can see who is ‘following’ you.

## Bookmarks

- Allows users to save bookmarks to the site
- Features:
- Add through a link on your toolbar
- Voting
- Tagging

## Tagging

- Fast way to see all items related to a topic within the site
- Features:
- Tags are user generated
- Can be added to almost anything in the site

## Websites Referenced

- SMD Business Applications:
- _[http://scienceworks.hq.nasa.gov](http://scienceworks.hq.nasa.gov/)_
- SMD Public Website:
- _[http://nasascience.nasa.gov](http://nasascience.nasa.gov/)_
- Spacebook
- _[http://jayne.hitsshq.com:8080](http://jayne.hitsshq.com:8080/)_ (in alpha!)‏

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