1 Technical Update Kathi Fletcher, Cameron Cooper, Ross Reedstrom (and the Connexions staff) Objectives: 1.Community College Consortium 2.University Press Consortium 3.CNX Open for Business

2 Talk Outline Scalability Current Development Supporting Initiatives Future Plans

3 Scalability Current –x traffic, y amount of content –Not near limit – can support x' and y' Future plans –10x increase : simple optimizations, hw upgrades, and better caching. –Distributed repositories when limit reached.

4 Development for Consortia Focus and Quality Control Quality Control Find, Use, Buy Collaborating and Branding Usability! World-wide focus

5 Authoring Tools : Import Expands capability and class of authors –Word Importer (09/04) 1/3 to ½ of new content (increasing) New authors: NCPEA, TWB –Edit on the Web Wizard-like interface for most things X % (Something high) use at some point –LaTeX Import – Math, Science, Engineering Profs Like Word is to Humanities Beta – importance growing

6 Authoring Tools :Misc. Usage statistics (Date??) –Measure author or project impact –Views by module, author Math and spell checkers (pipeline) –Quality Control Commons upgrade (Date??) –Can store different document types –Upgrade path

7 Language and Translation Tools Connexions around the world –Danish Connexions –More... Prepared, templates (pipeline) Multilingual content –Content in 15 languages so far (screen shot) –Browse by language (screen shot) –Multi-language module (pipeline)

8 Community Tools : Collaborating Collaborative workgroups (Date??) (screenshot) –Authors collaborate to create content –Provide simple editorial review –Widely used – 25%?? Interest groups and communities –Beta Communities Description Discussions Content selections Browse by community – TIMEA (screenshot)

9 Community Tools : Branding cnx.org now -- was cnx.rice.edu –More inclusive –Supports community address yourcommunity.cnx.org Customized look –(screen shots – TWB, NCPEA) Endorsements (quality control)

10 Search Tools Search and Harvest –OAI (Apr. 04), A9 (May 05) –Google : Good google karma (quantify) Connexions Search –math search –related content, author recommended links –usability of cnx search (pipeline)

11 Printing Tools Current Book Experience –Jones, Johnson, Do –Result : Much automated, rest identified New CNX standards support printing –User semantics Can use for display and layout –More flexible, sensible control for authors QOOP and CNX finish print capability (teamwork)

12 Future Development Authoring – Editor like Word/Writely Printing Tools –Support for segue material – intro, ack –Enhanced support for bibliography, index, footnotes numbering, book sections - chapters, sections, subsection Enhanced Quality Control and Communities 2.0 –Review Tools –Lenses

13 CNX Open For Business Connexions open source release (Aug. 05) –Development site -- rhaptos.org Experience –Bremen University (screen shot?) Contributing to source code, especially in the area of math support –Vietnam (Sept 06) Future – Installation, tech support tools, full docs