Hyperviews Online

Editor: Doug Tudhope (dstudhope@glam.ac.uk) Associate Editor: Daniel Cunliffe (djcunlif@glam.ac.uk) Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK

Submission deadline: January 16, 2008 Acceptance notification: February 27, 2008 Final manuscripts due: April 9, 2008

Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be sent by email to the editors, preferably in pdf format. Questions and enquiries are welcome.

NRHM covers hypermedia, hypertext, interactive multimedia and related technologies. The journal invites papers on the following topics and related issues:

• Conceptual basis of hypertext systems cognitive aspects design strategies
• Intelligent and adaptive hypermedia knowledge representation knowledge organisation systems and services the semantic web
• Multimedia issues time and synchronisation; link dynamics audio/image/video processing and compression content-based retrieval
• Interaction navigation and browsing; search systems; studies of information seeking and navigation behaviour; testing and evaluation user interfaces; multi-modal interaction
• Tools for hypermedia (automatic) authoring systems
• Applications in business, commerce, digital libraries, e-learning, information management, the professions, publishing, and public administration, and so on

The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats. For more details and topics, see the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp

Web Content Management - CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit. November 26, 2007, Boston, MA. http://www.cmprosevents.org

The focus is Web Content Management Technologies and Their Impact on the Way We Work. The Fall 2007 CM Pros Summit, takes place November 26, 2007 (in conjunction with the 4th Annual Gilbane Conference on Content Technologies Boston) at the Westin Copley Place. Early bird registrants save $100 on registration by September 30, 2007.

Web content management software has made it possible for organizations to increase workplace efficiency through collaboration, eliminate unnecessary waste through automation, lower cost of production through process improvements and workflow routing, and, perhaps most importantly, make possible the delivery of relevant content with pinpoint accuracy, increasingly, on demand. When localization and translation enter the equation, these benefits grow exponentially.

Where can organizations find the knowledge needed to take advantage of these powerful, paradigm-shifting technologies? The CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit is an excellent starting place. (more…)

Scott Jehl (http://www.scottjehl.com) has posted a free web-based tool for creating sitemaps, http://writemaps.com/  ”to provide a fast, fun, and easy way to plan your websites.”

If you’re in need of comprehensive information about today’s content management systems, try these sources:

http://www.cmswatch.com/ (offering a report comparing nearly 30 systems, both open source and commercial enterprise systems)

http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (listing available systems)

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix (providing comparisons)

Enterprise systems currently in use include:

• Vignette - V7 Content Management
• Documentum (EMC) and Documentum Web Publisher
• IBM - Workplace WCM
• RedDot (Open Text)  and RedDot CMS
• Interwoven - TeamSite
• Oracle - Stellent Web Content Management

The London website, http://www.london.gov.uk is being developed as a “one-stop-shop for all Londoners and visitors” with the help of a new content management system being implemented as a shared service throughout the city: http://news.iwebtool.com/article_23724.html?mp=1

The ITBusiness site has published “Wiki Implementation Challenging, Not Overwhelming” (http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=31546&sr=1) Novell IT manager Lee Romero reports on use of Wikis by engineering and enterprise-wide. An engineering Wiki runs on Twiki, chosen because it provides access control for pieces of content.

Romero advises conducing a pilot test when implementing a Wiki, attention to needed security, and plenty of time for training and acclimating employees to the technology. Typical releuctance to embrace new tools caan impeded adoption even though Wiki software is easy to use.

A new and (the authors hope) extremely useful set of accessibility prinicples and checkpoints is now available for download: http://www.mscui.net/DesignGuide/AccessibilityPrinciples.aspx and http://www.mscui.net/DesignGuide/AccessibilityChecklist.aspx

These documents were produced as part of the NHS Common User Interface program, a collaboration between England’s National Health Service (NHS) and Microsoft. The goal is to create design standards for point-of-care IT systems used by doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

This work focuses on complex clinical IT systems, and is drawn from analysis of eight industry-standard accessibility standards, including W3C, ISO and the US Access Board. The work is intended to be applicable to any rich application. Jon Dodd ( http://www.bunnyfoot.com/about/people.html) is the primary author – this work would not have been possible without his experience and expertise in the field. The NHS CUI seeks feedback in order to improve the guidance and thence the accessibility of IT applications within the NHS (the UK’s largest employer). Please direct comments to: cuistakeholder.mailbox@nhs.net

Online SIG Education Lead Tom Johnson has published articles on using WordPress as a CMS and providing other tips too.

Tom explains WordPress plugins here: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/04/17/wordpress-plugins-extending-your-blogs-features-and-capabilities/

Tom’s post on how to use WordPress as a CMS is published at http://www.idratherbewriting.com/2007/07/01/converting-your-wordpress-blog-into-a-cms-content-management-system/

Tom gave a presentation on WordPress that is posted here: http://www.idratherbewriting.com/doctrain

In a message to STC leaders who use WordPress for chapter and SIG sites, Tom also recommends the WordPres podcast: http://wordpresspodcast.org

Whether it’s accurate to say that just a few people write Wikipedia, or a large number of people do, depends on the kind of analysis that’s done: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia

The Scientific Communication SIG newsletter, The Exchange, is published in HTML in a new and old format and in PDF format. The newsletter is announced to members of the SIG each time it is posted. The summer 2007 issue is at http://www.stcsig.org/sc/newsletter/html/html2007-2.htm and http://www.stcsig.org/sc/newsletter/pdf/2007-2.pdf

In this issue, Geoff Hart reports on numerous sessions at the 2007 STC annual conference, and Jean Hollis Weber has an article on ethics in scientific and technical communication. There is a book review on writing in the health professions by past STC president David Armbruster.

Editor Geoff Hart was elected an STC Fellow in 2007. Congratulations, Geoff.

The Policies and Procedures SIG has an HTML newsletter that is available also as a PDF.

Each issue is announced to SIG members, and the current issue is available on the SIG website for members only (you enter your member number and password). The second quarter 2007 issue has just been posted. It includes a report from the conference by the SIG manager, volunteer opportunites, volunteer news, a profile of a member who works in the financial services sector, and a feature by past SIG manager Audrey Kessler on use of graphics in policies and procedures.

The newsletter archive is at http://www.stcsig.org/pp/newsletter/index.php

A “Web Trend Map for 2007″ has been posted and is reported at http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/20/information-architects-2007-web-trend-map/

The map depicts the 200 “most successful” websites on the Internet, shown by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. The map is meant to show the relationship among sites, and the focus is on Web 2.0.

The Web Trend Map is based on the Tokyo metro subway map. Posters are available and there is a PDF for download.