distributed publishing framework
DESCRIPTION
UBC's approach to distributed publishing/content management using blogs and wikis.TRANSCRIPT
• authorship
• collaboration
• presentation
• sharing
• making it work: start where you are
A Distributed Publishing Framework
Brian Lamb’s introductory screencast on blip.tv
Authorship
• individual or collective
• protected or open
• version control
• security: server back up
Authorship: Examples
• individual or collective
• protected or open
• version control
• security: server back up
Collaboration
• individual contributions to collective
• collective decision making about content
• categorizing/tagging content
• central management (clean up, fix ups, spam control, etc).
Collaboration: Examples
• individual contributions to collective
• collective decision making about content
• categorizing/tagging content
• central management (clean up, fix ups, spam control, etc).
Presentation
• who needs to know about your content?
• how will users access it?
• author/update locally/share widely (varied locations).
Presentation: Examples
• who needs to know about your content?
• how will users access it?
• author/update locally/share widely (varied locations).
Sharing
• shareable formats (RSS; JSON)
• advantages
• limitations
• Creative CommonsFrom: alexkingorg Flickr photostream
Making it Work
• start where you are
• experiment with others
• if it works - very powerful content management approach
• features: granularity of feeds, etc.