When used as a modifier, the words collaborative, cooperative, and collective are often used interchangeably. For example, one may speak of a collaborative effort and later refer to it as a collective effort. This is not necessarily a problem. In many cases, these terms can be loosely understood to mean that a group of people are involved and the conversation survives just fine.
However, in an environment such as CommunityWiki, the discussion may get quite specific about, well, groups of people. So perhaps it makes sense here to clarify.
Here’s another:
Keith, I hope you don’t take offense at my addition of “Collected.” I absolutely love this page.
I just read something TomAtlee? and GeorgePor? wrote, that said:
There is sometimes some value in mere accumulation, alone.
It is not clear to me whether TomAtlee? & GeorgePor? are thinking about what you are calling Collective, or more of what you would define as Cooperative, and at a political scale.
Is the ProjectSpace cooperative or collective? Not clear to me, immediately…
I think I need a diagram to help see these relationships clearly.
My feeling is
Just one link: Will That Be Coordination, Cooperation, or Collaboration? - it defines collaboration as more specific than cooperation the opposite of what is proposed here.
nice link .
as to collectiv (collected) i tend to:
Very excited to see this page become truly collaborative. I do believe our collective intelligence is making for better definitions than what was initially put out there. I mean, that’s the point, right?

Collective, Collaborative, Cooperative, Coordinated, Collected, …
heh, that’s your shortest statement, i’ve ever seen .
I updated the cooperation definition based on cooperationcommons.org conversation. Also trying to pull in a couple visuals and rework this page.