Project Types

Patterns that describe some common applications of collaborative maintenance.

Getting Started

All patterns in this category

Collaborative Cataloguing

There is a discrete set of documents, images, photographs or other material that are currently unstructured, but that could be turned into a structured dataset

Communal Database

The work to compile and maintain a database that would be useful to a community of organisation is costly and time-intensive

Knowledge Commons

There is a need for a Communal Database to support a diverse set of communities. But outside a common core set of data, there are different and evolving needs.

Observation Pool

There are gaps in our understanding of some aspect of the world which new data can help to address.

Shared Directory

Compiling an up-to-date, useful directory of companies, services, events or other records requires the input of multiple organisations.