So, I stand corrected...

So, I stand corrected… there is a controlled, central data sharing repository after all. Per Mike’s post and Scott Moore’s email that was sent out this week, IFS and CTools are two possible alternatives to the R-drive. I like the notion of the CTools option, but I have to argue that using our public FTP spaces for file sharing is pretty much the same as using the R-drive, except the whole university can view your files vs. just the business school. In checking out the capabilities of CTools, I found that loading files is actually pretty easy, and the best part is that you can control who can read, revise, delete, and post files on your space by hitting the ‘permissions’ button on the ‘resources’ tab.  In further exploring CTools, I also found that the ‘news’ tab has RSS capabilities and you can customize this section to have any RSS feed that you want appearing on the page.  It’s amazing that all this was in front of me all semester long, and I had no idea.

 In response to Justin’s post about real time revision collaboration, I agree that the notion is appealing, although it may cause more trouble than its worth. If two people were working off of the same file and were in disagreement about something, one of them could go and delete parts of the file without the other person having any record of the original version. However, I’ll give you that it would be really efficient.