Summit 3: Functional Requirements 

The third summit will be chaired by members of the Program Committee, led by the core team, and professionally facilitated. It will be held in April 2008. It will involve a subset of participants from the second summit who will form the nucleus of the coalition that will go forward with a proposal for a VW development and research project.

This meeting will have two goals: (1) to establish methods and criteria for evaluating the quality of scholarly communication and collaboration that occurs in the VWs; and (2) to detail the functional requirements, investigator roles, and estimated costs of a development and deployment plan, in the form of a proposal for funding that can be presented to suitable philanthropic sources.