Re: OReilly summit

[Jane Greenberg <janeg@ils.unc.edu>]

yeah Paul, eloquently explained! jg


On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Paul Jones wrote:

> Dan and others, 
> I cannot be at the Open Source Conference, but we do have a project that I
> think will help bring the documentation together the Open Source Metadata
> Framework (aka OMF) http://metalab.unc.edu/osrt/omf/
> The idea here is to provide easily sharable, standards based,
> interoperable metadata which is simple enough for authors to create
> themselves without requiring them to be metadata specialists.
> metadata can be independent of the document location, format, language
> etc. think distributable card catalogue here. while it could be placed in
> a database, it needs to be made transparent to be shared properly. we
> believe that the OMF can be used to meet these and other requirements that
> you mention in your note. we have a test set of documents (about 170
> thanks to greg ferg) so that you can see one implementation of searching
> and retrieval, but any site could create other versions from the same
> shared standards based metadata.
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Dan York wrote:
> 
> > Guylhem,
> > 
> > > In 2 weeks I will participate to the OReilly summit, for the free
> > > software documentation, which will focus on what OR can do to help the
> > > free software documentation.
> > 
> > I will also be there and it would be interesting to connect and say hello.
> > As usual, I will be representing the Linux Professional Institute and
> > giving a presentation about "Understanding Linux Training and Certification
> > Opportunities" on July 20th.  LPI will also have a booth in their ".org"
> > area.  You can probably find me there - or reach me via my mobile (below).
> > 
> > > I intend to discuss for ex. the documentation formats, databases/search
> > > engines, licenses issues, funding of free documentation projects,
> > > transfert of commercial documents to free documentation ; I will also
> > > present every single opinion from the LDP contributors, and post a sum
> > > up after the summit.
> > 
> > IMHO, all of the above seem to be important issues.  I think standardizing
> > the format of Linux/open source/free documentation is probably among the
> > most important.  Let's make it easy for documentation from the various
> > projects to be exchanged. 
> > 
> > A second concern is making it easy (or easier) for people to *find* all
> > of the free documentation. Someone somewhere should have a "meta-directory"
> > that would allow people to search the docs from LDP, OSWG, FreeBSD and any
> > other sources of free documentation... including the books publishers open
> > up under assorted "open" licenses.  Maybe such a project is already underway
> > and I just don't know about it. (If so, please clue me in.) But it seems
> > that this is necessary.  If documents can't all be in one central place (like
> > the
> > LDP), then I think there should be some place where people can search *all*
> > the various repositories of documentation.  Something like Google that 
> > can continuously update its own index.
> > 
> > And of course, there's always the need to have more people write... :-)
> > 
> > If I think of anything else, I'll pass it along... and I'll look forward
> > to seeing your panel at the O'Reilly conference.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dan
> > 
> > P.S. FWIW, I personally do not believe *all* Linux/opensource/free
> > documentation
> > needs to reside in a single place... Linux is all about choice and we need 
> > to leave it open that other sites/projects can be set up... (while encouraging
> > people to join with existing efforts first before doing their own thing).
> > 
> > -- 
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> > Dan York, President, Board of Directors  dan@lpi.org
> > Linux Professional Institute   http://www.lpi.org/
> > 1-603-264-0129 mobile, 603-268-0691 tel, 603-268-0103 fax
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