Imagine a web space that lets every scholar see related researchers doing similar work. The site suggests cross-disciplinary relationships between different writings. Sustainability would be referenced for every area of scholarship. As an example, how does research into literature have sustainability implications?

For example, a microbiologist studying a species of frogs in the Amazon may not know that a similar research is happening and the results are similar. By constantly searching and matching keywords, categories, related subjects, GIS information, and other factors, the map could be geo-local and based on subject matter. The website would have different ways of exploring how a given research idea relates to other research subjects. You could then contact those individuals or create online groups using simple social networking features. The system would constantly be pushing cross-disciplinary perspectives of research.

Here is a list of features in the site:
-instant online groups (select up to 10 researchers for an instant group that lasts up to 4 week after the last activity)
-share documents in a virtual space
-share desktops
-video chat
-schedule seminars online for interested students, other researchers, or for the public
-instant message
-idea mapping (see how your ideas are related to other research ideas)
-idea reporting (see where subject areas have deep research and where it is shallow)
-idea journey (explore how ideas relate to each other and read summaries)
-research to reality check (see how media is covering a subject area being researched)
-top of the food chain (explore who are the leading scholars in different areas)