[bksvol-discuss] Re: consolidation of information (was Re: Re: scanners, scanners, scanners)

  • From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:24:43 -0700

Hello Bob,

Yes.  You've got the basic idea.  I'm not claiming to know everything there 
is to know about this stuff, but I do knowledge base maintenance, technical 
writing and online forum moderation on my day job.  :-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: consolidation of information (was Re: Re: 
scanners, scanners, scanners)


Wow, that was fast response, thanks Darrel.

I guess it's up to the bookshare gurus to tell us how plausible this is, but
it sounds good to me.

As I see it, we could take those myriads of emails everyone has accumulated,
and boil them down to topics, and put these on the bookshare wiki. As time
goes by and ideas and technologies change, they could be updated by
bookshare staff based on our request to update them.

Anyone want to add to this?

Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: consolidation of information (was Re: Re:
scanners, scanners, scanners)


> Hello Bob,
>
> As I stated previously, the best example of accessible content
> consolidation
> available to the general public that comes to mind right now is Wikipedia.
> I am also part of an internal Wiki on my day job.
>
> A Wiki generally allows anyone in the public to search and read its
> content,
> while permitting its members to discuss and even edit that content,
> depending upon privileges configured by its administrators.
>
> Bookshare related information for subscribers and volunteers could be
> added
> to a Wiki.  Anyone could find and read the documents, everyone who signs
> up
> could also discuss the content and selected administrators and other
> volunteers could edit the documents whenever updated information becomes
> available.  When information needs to be changed, removed or updated, it
> is
> simply a matter of editing the document online, rather than manually
> finding
> it offline, editing it using an application like Microsoft Word, figuring
> out how to get it back up on the web site and possibly correcting links to
> the document.
>
> The ultimate extension of this concept would be a full blown knowledge
> base
> system, but those are typically not open source, can be quite pricey and
> are
> just more complexity than is necessary for this project.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't think right now of a good example of the use of a
> Wiki in the blind community, as most modern web sites we tend to build are
> blogs, full blown content management systems like Drupal or static pages.
> Nevertheless, I do think implementation of a Wiki is possibly worth a try.
> :-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:26 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] consolidation of information (was Re: Re:
> scanners, scanners, scanners)
>
>
> I'd like to hear more from Darrel about what an accessible wiki is, how it
> works, and how it would help us.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:03 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanners, scanners, scanners
>
>
>>
>>>Can these tools be set up to be totally accessible? If so, sounds like a
>>>easy way to dynamically update the information.
>>
>>
>> E.
>>
>>>I wonder if the
>>>Friendsofbookshare.org webmasters might want to consider implementing an
>>>accessible Wiki, such as MediaWiki, as a means of permitting dynamic
>>>maintenance of such documentation?  I happen to know a few things about
>>>blogging, CMS, knowledge bases and Wikis, so I am available to help if
>>>approached to do so.  I feel this should be undertaken either directly by
>>>Benetech or by the friendsofbookshare.org group, so I don't want to just
>>>go
>>>off on our own completely outside one of these venues.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
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