11-10-2003, om 20:18 schreef Sanford Forte:
Question: The Connexions Project at Rice http://cnx.rice.edu/ has the facility to be able to create printed pages quite easily, or so I've been led to believe by several people who have participated in that project.
Is
here any possibility of hooking up this pilot project with Connexions, or learning from them, as regards the printing constraints in Wikipedia?
Wouter Vanden Hove: The Connexions-software platform will be released to the public in december. Connexions uses masterfiles in XML (CNXML) that can be converted to other formats.
-------- This is wonderful news; thanks Wouter!
Several months ago someone who had been given a thorough demo of Connexions' software told me that they had "solved the web-to-print problems that open source content models have heretofore lacked". He claimed that the Connexions software was very facile, transparent, and was able to nicely format text-to-print. He was also very excited about the formatting control with mathematical and scientific notation.
Essentially, with their software release, Connexions will be enabling anyone who wants to do open source text-to-print models. Again, a perfect scenario for school systems that want to perform POD (print-on-demand) or larger, scaled print runs for a whole district, state, etc.
With licensing issues being ironed out, and the release of this software, we should be on our way to a successful pilot in US History (assuming that topic remains a consensus choice), with other curriculum topics soon to follow.
Sanford
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