Lighting Information on the WWW

• RPI Lighting Research Center Partners
• The challenge is to foster inter-organizational cooperation
  • Overcome "turf"
  • Foster meaning-making activities
  • Collaborate on standards and practices
  • Compete together: model = "the food court" ! (Example: Compare.net)
• Develop webs as forums
  • Intra-Organizational Forums: intranets
  • Inter-Organizational Forums (Example: LRC)
  • Technical Information (Example: LRC NLPIP)
  • Professional Information (Example: SPIE)