The Public Knowledge Project is building prototype websites in collaboration with other organizations, such as Vancouver Sun newspaper and British Columbia Teachers Federation, that push the boundaries of knowledge access and management with a focus on integrating research resources with more public information sources and more interactive environments. Some of these prototypes have run for short periods, to address a newspaper series or a policy issue, and some continue to operate.

Multiliteracies, Principal Investigator, Margaret Early, Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC; Website Architect, Diane Potts, LLED, UBC (January 2004)<.dt>

This website will present ongoing and emerging results of SSHRC INE project through project sites, demonstrations and case studies intended to serve research, professional development, and community interests in the development of a broader understanding of literacy.

Indigenation, directed by Dr. Jan Hare, First Nations Studies Program, UBC (September 2002)

Ongoing development of a website that will host student-generated learning objects developed to provide a growing, integrated and indexed resource on Aboriginal history, culture, issues, perspectives and experience. (No longer available).

Sustainability Tools and Resources (STAR), directed by Sean Edwards, the Georgia Basin Futures Project, Sustainable Development Research Institute University of British Columbia (June 2002)

STAR website provides information, contacts and project management support for individuals and community groups that seek to do work in the area of sustainability for British Columbia. (No longer available.)

Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, directed by Peter Seixas (July 2001)

This website features an automated Open Archive Initiative Conference Manager that will soon be made available to other sites to create a distributed database system for conference papers.

Policy.ca, with George Hoberg, Dept of Political Science, UBC (November 2000)

policy.ca provides annotated links to the relevant policy resources from Canadian government agencies, academic institutions, businesses, interest groups, and the media. This site will be incorporated into the Mapleleafweb project in 2004.

EdX, with Innovative Information Inc. and SFU’s TLITE program (No longer available.) (June 2000)

Public Knowledge Policy Forum, with the British Columbia Teachers Federation (November 1999-February 2000)

The BCTF and PKP developed this interactive forum to promote discussion around a proposed provincial policy, supported by numerous research articles, links to web sites and related organizations. (No longer available.) Also see Shula Klinger's presentation "Are they talking yet?": Online discourse as political action on our Publications page.

Public Knowledge Project, with the Vancouver Sun (April 1999)

Features articles from a Vancouver Sun series on technology and education for which PKP provided connections to related research, practices, policies and other materials in an experiment at extending the scope of public knowledge on this important topic. (No longer available.)

Weblink, developed by Stuart Lynch, Richmond Schools District (September 2001)

This First Class Server database provides indexed access to education resources (including classroom practice, policy documents, programs,. organizations, research reports) by grade level, resource level, subject area and topic. (No longer available.)

Slides

The Open Access Campus

Why in the World Would We Want To Go Public with Research?