Re: [dita-learningspec] a collaborative session on structure

[john_hunt@us.ibm.com]

Thanks to Bruce for setting this up.

For some context, as a result of discussions
at our SC call last Thursday, Bruce has taken the initiative to set up
some DITA wiki space to facilitate a workgroup discussion of the strawman
proposals, starting with progress toward building consensus on proposal
1.

See the strawman proposals here - http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita-learningspec/email/archives/200610/msg00013.html
and in the wiki here - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/Strawman_Proposals.


If you'd like to participate in a work
session to review and revise Proposal 1, please let me know and post your
availability on the wiki here - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/Structure/Contributors.

Tentative date and time for the workgroup discussion:
Wednesday, November 15, 2 pm - 4 pm EST. 

If you want to participate and this time does not
work for, please let me know.

Thanks.

John Hunt
Chair, OASIS DITA learning and training content sub-committee
IBM Software Group/Lotus Software

Bruce Esrig <esrig-ia@esrig.com>

11/13/2006 10:24 AM

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Subject	[dita-learningspec] a collaborative session on structure

This is to invite you to a collaborative edit session
supported by the 
OASIS DITA TC members wiki.

Our goal would be to make substantive progress on building a consensus
structure consisting of:
  - instructional objects and information objects
  - specialized elements to represent them
  - specialized map structures to represent the organizer elements
like 
course, module, and learning object (RLO)

The way it would work is that each main page that the team is updating
would have one editor, and any other contributors would create the content
that they want to contribute on separate individual pages. The editor would
copy content, when ready, from the individual page to the common page.

In order to get started with the Wiki, the most convenient thing to do
seems to be to make a personal home page. Any personal scratch content
(such as content that an individual wants to contribute during 
collaborative editing) can be created on those pages.

I made one at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/BruceEsrig. You can follow
the instructions there (and edit them if necessary!) to make a personal
home page of your own on the DITA wiki.

You can look at the http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/WikiSandBox page for
a 
romp through a bunch of formatting features, or look at our existing pages
under http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningSubcommittee to see how 
headings, lists, and links to related information are done.

The spiffiest page at the moment is 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/Structure/ElementsUsedInPilot.
That page is an edit of John Hunt's e-mail message presenting his slide
on 
learning objects and information objects, following the Ruth Clark model.
** Technical note: ** The trick with the graphic is that I downloaded it
from the e-mail message and then uploaded it to the Presentations section
of the Documents page on the Subcommittee web site. The reason to do it
this way is that this gives us a link to a graphic that is still within
the 
members area. We can revise the graphic if desired or post more graphics
there to show any alternative models that we develop.

Still TBD: build places to record the structure we want to go with, our
implementation using specialized elements, and any explanation we wish
to 
provide. (Probably in or near 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/Structure/ImplementationInDITA).

Let's check our resources. There is a place to state the roles you can
fill 
and your availability at 
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningContent/Structure/Contributors.

Best wishes,

Bruce Esrig