people need to act, they need to be engaged
Minimalism Revisited: An Interview with John Carroll - 0 views
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they need to struggle
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The minimalist idea, the way I think of it, is to minimize the extent to which the system and the information get in the way of what the user’s really interested in.
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Using Dublin Core - 0 views
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The linkage between a metadata record and the resource it describes may take one of two forms: elements may be contained in a record separate from the item, as in the case of the library's catalog record; or the metadata may be embedded in the resource itself.
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The Dublin Core metadata standard is a simple yet effective element set for describing a wide range of networked resources. The Dublin Core standard includes two levels: Simple and Qualified. Simple Dublin Core comprises fifteen elements; Qualified Dublin Core includes three additional elements (Audience, Provenance and RightsHolder), as well as a group of element refinements (also called qualifiers) that refine the semantics of the elements in ways that may be useful in resource discovery.
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Another way to look at Dublin Core is as a "small language for making a particular class of statements about resources". In this language, there are two classes of terms -- elements (nouns) and qualifiers (adjectives) -- which can be arranged into a simple pattern of statements.
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Short Descriptions - 0 views
Technical Communication - 0 views
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in its original conceptualization wiki technology was not developed for the purpose of a public Internet-based encyclopedia but as an internal communication and collaboration platform
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Wikis are best explained within the larger context of social software. Social software is broadly defined as “software that supports group interaction”
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The key attributes of wikis and other social software tools are the following (Parameswaran & Whinston, 2007): content is created and controlled by the users; content is highly dynamic with frequent, often unpredictable changes; quality assurance of the content is largely peer-based and unstructured; social software applications themselves are mostly lightweight, platform independent, and highly portable.
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Subject classification with DITA and SKOS - 4 views
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In a topic-oriented architecture such as DITA, content is authored in small, independent units that are assembled to provide help systems, books, courses, and other deliverables. Each unit of information answers a single question for a specific purpose. That is, each topic has specific, independent subject matter
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Because each topic has a specific meaning, DITA topics are tailor-made for semantic processing. However, current semantic processors can't read the text of a topic to find out what it means. What's missing is a formal declaration of the topic's subject matter that a semantic processor can understand
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Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) provides a standard for indicating the subject matter of content. SKOS lets you define the subjects for a particular subject matter area (organizing these subjects as a taxonomy if desired) and then classify each piece of content to indicate its subject. For instance, using SKOS, you could define configuration and security as subjects, and classify the three example topics that relate to those subjects so that users could browse the subjects to find the content regardless of whether the words "configuration" or "security" actually appear in the text.
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