TiddlyWiki for Class Lab Journal

[spf]

Hello -

I'm trying to find someone who has set up a TiddlyWiki for a lab
journal. Have any of you had experience with it? Can you give me
some thoughts on how well it worked for you?

Specifically, I'm interested in using it for small group
communications ... at most 4 people.

Thanks!

Spf

[roma]

I'm, too, interested in this view - I'm looking for solutions,
including other means, like moodle, etc - but the autonomous tw is an
elegant one, so that I came back to it. Let's tell us what we find...

[Mark S.]

A popular idea is to use TW as a type of groupware. Unfortunately, out
of the box TW has no way of dealing with concurrency issues. Its a
stand-alone application.

There's TiddlyWeb if you want to pursue that.

One idea that's crossed my mind is to use the Include plugin:

http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#IncludePlugin

Assuming a shared intranet, assign each user their own TW, which they
can save to. Each such TW would be set up to allow viewing of the
other user's tiddlers via the include list. Everyone would follow a
naming convention, including perhaps their initials in each post. Like

[[Test 12/25/2009 Do Reindeers Fly #16 OSN]]

Where OSN would be the initials of the participant (Old Saint Nick).
The initials could be built into the "new tiddler" template as a
reminder.

As long as this is a trustworthy, cooperative group this might work.
It avoids issues of concurrency, synchronization, and name-space
collision that vex even full-fledged groupware.

Mark

[Jon]

> I'm trying to find someone who has set up a TiddlyWiki for a lab
> journal.  Have any of you had experience with it?  Can you give me
> some thoughts on how well it worked for you?

I use a customized TW for my research lab group (in biology at an
undergraduate college):
http://jon.visick.faculty.noctrl.edu/research/wiki

Anyone can take a look at the overview of the project, the students
who've participated, recent results, publications, etc. It's (lightly)
protected by a simple password system, so that my own research
students can log in and also see more detail on current open projects,
protocols, recipes and other resources. (Let me know if you're
interested and I'll send you a login off-group.)

My students and I share an editable version with a simple Dropbox
mechanism. I would like to open it up for them to directly update it
with current results (though of course not to replace a lab notebook)
but have not done that as yet.

--Jon

[spf]

All - Thanks for your help

Jon, what you are doing is quite similar to what I'm trying to do -
with the exception of you appear to be using this for multiple
students on a single project. I'm trying to set up a single
tiddlywiki for each student as a way to share their finding with me
and other faculty.

I'll look over what you've done - and will try to see what I can do
similar.

Other thoughts are certainly appreciate.

Thanks!

Steve