Bravo Karen!! As a newbie attempting a migration project, I'm certainly appreciating what others have already done. I'd love just one site or linked sites we could go to and find information, and not have to recreate a wheel...fire....whatever. The community sources site on the website was a start, but standardizing the documentation and creating an online "Book of Evergreen" for the community is definitely needed. I really don't want to dig into "code" to figure out the meaning of a field in Evergreen. :) A glossary of Evergreen terms/fields (which I had mentioned in a previous email) would be my first request/suggestion. (To the group, if this already exists I haven't located it, please advise.) Thanks! Marlene Marlene F. Coleman Evergreen Project Manager Branch Manager, Beaufort Branch Beaufort County Library 311 Scott Street Beaufort, SC 29902 [email protected] 843-470-6544 www.beaufortcountylibrary.org <http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/> For Learning ~ For Leisure ~ For Life
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Fri 1/30/2009 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Open-ils-general Digest, Vol 31, Issue 17 Send Open-ils-general mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-general or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Open-ils-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Documentation proposal -- input requested (Catherine Buck Morgan) 2. Re: Documentation proposal -- input requested (Karen Schneider) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:38:30 -0500 From: "Catherine Buck Morgan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Documentation proposal -- input requested To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <713e639453ab8d45ab02fcbd20baf90c013df...@jocasta.statelibrary.sc.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Karen, I was reading this last night and checking out Docbook. To say this is a timely topic would be an understatement... I love the title, by the way-The Book of Evergreen. One thing that stood out particularly was the ability to translate the documentation to word and pdf. (I've decided I'm the "tween generation"... remember and appreciate the good old paper manual, like the convenience of online contextual documentation, but still want to be able to scribble my notes in the margins of how it really works for my system.... ) I really think you're on the right road with the XML platform. Using (or an intro to) Docbook might be a good topic for the conference... --Catherine. -- Catherine Buck Morgan Director, Division of Innovation, Technology & Library Services South Carolina State Library POB 11469, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 Phone: 803-734-8651 | Fax: 803-734-4757 [email protected] www.statelibrary.sc.gov The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina's intellectual landscape. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Schneider Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:47 AM To: Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Development Discussion List; Public Open-ILS documentation discussion Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Documentation proposal -- input requested Hi folks, two weeks back there were a flurry of posts about an Evergreen documentation project plan. I will plan a webinar for a conversation about this proposal, but if you have thoughts to share on or off the list, your input would be very welcome. Input could range from "Yes, that's a good idea -- carry on" to "I suggest X about Y" to "This is the most ghastly proposal I have seen in my X years working in libraries." This is the proposal: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddzqk523_264f2vk5vpn Note that there are any kind of top-level decisions to be made, with corollary activity that follows, and it's not even a given we call the documentation The Book of Evergreen (especially if it turns out to be in volumes...). That has been its working title, and in the absence of better ideas, etc. etc., but a discussion about the title would also be timely. Also, Betty Ing, a documentation intern at Project Conifer, has published a comparison of Style Guidelines for Fedora and Book of Evergreen. For those who missed her post (to the documentation list) I published her cross-walk here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqvVF5hSEbDO6MlrXHXxDUg <http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqvVF5hSEbDO6MlrXHXxDUg> This crosswalk reinforces the suggestions in the proposal. We've seen some excellent documentation emerging from various parts of the Evergreen community, and channeling it into an intentional project integrated with larger Evergreen efforts would be excellent. -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 | E-Mail/AIM: [email protected] | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com <http://www.esilibrary.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachments/20090129/3e6019dd/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:36:37 -0500 From: Karen Schneider <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Documentation proposal -- input requested To: Evergreen Discussion Group <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" The conference idea (slaps forehead) that's inspired! That sounds like at least one program -- heck it could even be a Hackfest, a kind of gonzo instruction class involving installing a free open source XML editor, applying templates, working in XML, etc. (There's no reason Hackfests need to be limited to development!) thanks, Catherine! Thoughts from others in the community? Karen S. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Catherine Buck Morgan < [email protected]> wrote: > Karen, > > I was reading this last night and checking out Docbook. To say this is a > timely topic would be an understatement? I love the title, by the way?The > Book of Evergreen. > > > > One thing that stood out particularly was the ability to translate the > documentation to word and pdf. (I've decided I'm the "tween generation"? > remember and appreciate the good old paper manual, like the convenience of > online contextual documentation, but still want to be able to scribble my > notes in the margins of how it really works for my system?. ) I really think > you're on the right road with the XML platform. > > > > Using (or an intro to) Docbook might be a good topic for the conference? > > > > --Catherine. > > > > -- > > Catherine Buck Morgan > > Director, Division of Innovation, Technology & Library Services > > South Carolina State Library > > POB 11469, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29211 > > Phone: 803-734-8651 | Fax: 803-734-4757 > > [email protected] > > www.statelibrary.sc.gov > > > > The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, > collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South > Carolina's intellectual landscape. > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Karen > Schneider > *Sent:* Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:47 AM > *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group; Evergreen Development Discussion List; > Public Open-ILS documentation discussion > *Subject:* [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Documentation proposal -- input requested > > > > Hi folks, two weeks back there were a flurry of posts about an Evergreen > documentation project plan. I will plan a webinar for a conversation about > this proposal, but if you have thoughts to share on or off the list, your > input would be very welcome. Input could range from "Yes, that's a good idea > -- carry on" to "I suggest X about Y" to "This is the most ghastly proposal > I have seen in my X years working in libraries." > > This is the proposal: > > http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddzqk523_264f2vk5vpn > > Note that there are any kind of top-level decisions to be made, with > corollary activity that follows, and it's not even a given we call the > documentation The Book of Evergreen (especially if it turns out to be in > volumes...). That has been its working title, and in the absence of better > ideas, etc. etc., but a discussion about the title would also be timely. > > Also, Betty Ing, a documentation intern at Project Conifer, has published a > comparison of Style Guidelines for Fedora and Book of Evergreen. For those > who missed her post (to the documentation list) I published her cross-walk > here: > > http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pqvVF5hSEbDO6MlrXHXxDUg > > This crosswalk reinforces the suggestions in the proposal. > > We've seen some excellent documentation emerging from various parts of the > Evergreen community, and channeling it into an intentional project > integrated with larger Evergreen efforts would be excellent. > > > -- > -- > | Karen G. Schneider > | Community Librarian > | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" > | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 > | E-Mail/AIM: [email protected] > | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com <http://www.esilibrary.com/> > -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. 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