Seminars are ubiquitous for university research and education, which are often held within the laboratories or departments.
Web-based contents management systems are widely used for developing community site, but are not used for networking researchers and developing knowledge base of interdisciplinary studies.
Combining seminars and web-based contents management systems, we propose and practice novel way of interdisciplinary research and education, which is to hold exploratory seminars presented by students, researchers, and faculties with diverse departments and graduate schools.
Supported user processes are:
- Arrangements between the organizers and presenters
- Announcement of the seminar to the registrants
- Attracting registrants’ attention to the series of seminars
- Continuous development of knowledge base
- Embodiment of interdisciplinary research community
How other people can use are as follows.
On the implemented community site, the organizers of the project provide the protocol for organizing the seminars. Finding the speakers whose disciplines are far from the organizers is very important for making the seminars successful. Therefore, social networking method, which is asking for the speaker to find the next speaker, is effective.
This community site provides instruction of this exploratory seminar at 'About -> Protocol' section.
The method for developing the community site for use with the seminar is also available on this site at 'About -> Development' section.