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Subject: [Fwd: Formation of DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning]
Folks, as many of you have experience with eLearning standards and products, I would like to formally invite your participation on the DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning. I've included the approved charter and initial membership below. Experience with the DocBook standard is not required to participate, as we are looking for expertise in learning content best practices. It would also be great to work on alignment/compatibility of DITA and DocBook in the eLearning space. Please let me know if you have any questions or are interested in participating. We are planning to meet The 2nd Tuesday of the month at 14:00:00 UTC, which would be Tue 4:00 PM in Prague, Tue 10:00 AM Eastern and Tue 8:00 AM Mountain. Due to a conflict I have in November, we will actually kick off the SC on Nov 3rd, then resume the regular schedule. Thanks and best regards, --Scott Hudson -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Formation of DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:35:10 -0600 From: Hudson, Scott <Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com> To: tc-admin@oasis-open.org <tc-admin@oasis-open.org> CC: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> Per the OASIS process 2.14, the DocBook Technical Committee has approved the formation of a DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning on 21 Oct 2009. This is documented in the minutes at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-tc/200910/msg00022.html The approved charter and initial members are listed below: **OASIS DocBook Subcommittee for eLearning** *Background* For more than a decade, DocBook has provided a structured markup vocabulary for hardware and software documentation. DocBook is now widely used in both commercial and Open Source environments. DocBook has a very broad element set, and applies to much more than just technical documentation. The DocBook TC is engaged in evolving the suite of DocBook specifications. The community benefits from having a standard, open, interchangeable vocabulary in which to write structured content. DocBook has been, and will continue to be, designed to satisfy this requirement. The OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for eLearning is chartered to develop and maintain official variants of DocBook in support of the eLearning industry. Specifically, the subcommittee will focus on schema and stylesheet customizations to support: 1. Develop and design a DocBook-based method for creating reusable learning objects, and the learning content types needed to support them. Some specifics of the design for learning content include: 1. learning types, including assessments and exercises 2. a content assembly for structuring, sequencing and managing the learning types as reusable learning objects 3. linking and relationships between learning objects 4. interactions 2. Establish guidelines that promote best practices for applying DocBook markup to learning content *Scope of Work* This subcommittee will submit additional enhancements back to the full DocBook standard as appropriate. The scope of this DocBook subcommittee is eLearning content. Broadly, this includes online learning, instructor-led training and other related educational materials. This effort will deliver on the following goals: * Build official DocBook variants, based against the DocBook v5.0 schemas. * Address issues and enhancement requests that have arisen from experience with real-world DocBook and eLearning implementations. * Add support for features specific to the eLearning industry. Interested/prospective members include: Scott Hudson (proposed Chair), Flatirons Solutions Tim Arnold (proposed Secretary), SAS Institute Emma Hogbin, HICK Tech Jirka Kosek, OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member Corey Leong, Global Real Estate And Technology Consortium (GR8C) Thanks and best regards, -- Scott Scott Hudson Senior XML Architect +1 (303) 542-2146 | Office +1 (720) 663-SCOT [7268] | Gvoice Scott.Hudson@flatironssolutions.com http://www.flatironssolutions.com
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