How the Collaboratorium works
From a user's point of view
The activities of the Climate Collaboratorium community occur in four primary areas of the site:
- Plans
Development, assessment, and selection of plans that address climate change.
- Debates
Participation in debates about key issues relevant to climate change.
- Models
Expanding the set of computer models of climate-related systems (see Add new models).
- Resources
Adding links to other information sources about climate change and other kinds of relevant resources.
A key connection between the first two of these areas is the Linkage between plans and debates.
The underlying technology
The Collaboratorium combines three key technologies.
- Open modeling
Simulation models can project the likely impacts of actions that are proposed to address climate change. The system will make use of some of the many existing models of the physical and human systems that affect climate. The Collaboratorium will also pioneer a new approach for extending and developing these models, radically open modeling.
- Large scale argumentation
Large scale argumentation allows groups to summarize the structure and key positions held on contested topics. It works by structuring arguments into four types of entities: issues (or questions), positions, argument for (or pros), and arguments against (or cons).
- Group decision making
The Collaboratorium will use voting and rating to allow the community select the most convincing positions in the debate and the best sets of actions to pursue.
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