Overview of why you would use ICE
Overview the ICE-RS project
Features identified for ICE-RS
Improving word processor work flow
Bibliographic software integration
Publishing to institutional repositories
A word processor based publishing system
Built on standards
Allows individual or collaborative authoring
Publishes to print, CD, and Web
Learning management systems
Institutional repositories
Reduces handling of content
Content is formatted during the authoring stage
Authoring occurs in a standard word processor
Instant feedback of different renditions
Can be used to produce material for Print, Web and CD delivery for course material, papers, theses etc.
All content revisions are kept and easily retrievable
Runs on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Authoring can occur either on-line or off-line
Corporate branding can be easily changed
Approximately 40 courses in 2006, now 100+ courses in 2007 at USQ
Project Intranets
Public websites
http://ice.usq.edu.au, http://rubric.usq.edu.au, and some secure sites
Newsletters
e-Journal
This is a demonstration of the basics that ICE does, the demonstration includes:
Starting up ICE
Creating a new document
Adding content (Title, paragraphs, headings, lists, an image)
Display the document as HTML and PDF.
Show the document in a Subversion repository
Extend the features in ICE to improve the process of conducting and reporting on research, with benefits in improved efficiency, greater usability of research outputs, and publication to research repositories for sustainability.
Implement functionality for rendering papers, books and journals for Web and print
Bibliographic software to complement ICE
Institutional repository ingest directly from ICE (Fez / Dspace / Vital)
Annotation system for collaborative authoring and review processes
“Dashboard” proof of concept to report on the state of research held in ICE
Integrate with the Meta-Access Management System (MAMS)
A more efficient rendering method for papers, books etc.
Process for creating ICE templates for authors
Improve efficiency in the word processor for applying styles and structure
Inter-operable implementation of bibliographic software for OpenOffice.org and Word to complement ICE
'Proof of concept' for uploading content into Fedora directly from ICE
The ICE template up until recently was a basic drop down menu of styles. The work flow in word processors for structuring content, applying and creating styles needed to be more efficient. This has been achieved by creating an OpenOffice.org extension and Word Add-In which contains:
The same base code with compiler directives to reduce maintenance
A set of functions with 'smarts' to work out what style to apply
Common interface for all word processors for these features
Matching set of short cuts in all word processors
ICE needed an inter-operable and cross platform method of inserting citations and bibliographies, we found that Zotero had the most potential.
“Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.” (http://www.zotero.org)
Same base code using compiler directives in OpenOffice.org and Word
Bookmarks used for citations instead of fields as it was proven to be the most inter-operable method
Document description field was used instead of custom document fields
Proof of concept has been developed for publishing to Fedora directly from ICE.
Note: This need for method will be made redundant by SWORD (explained later)
A server side version of ICE is currently being developed and will include:
Full text indexing for the generation of dynamic content and searching
Comment annotations for authoring and reviewers etc.
Document status reporting – How many papers has my department published?
Remove the need for ICE to be installed for proofing and minor content edits
Incorporate the use of identifiers such as handles
Repository integration from ICE is to be handled using SWORD (scheduled for completion in August 2007).
“SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) will take forward the Deposit protocol developed by a small working group as part of the JISC Digital Repositories Programme by implementing it as a lightweight web-service in four major repository software platforms: EPrints, DSpace, Fedora and IntraLibrary.” (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD)
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