Hello Jeremy, Your examples are so impressive! I didn't realise that TiddlyWeb was so powerful. I am a professional in digital publishing and I do think that if books have a future, this is it!
I had a less ambitious application in mind for TW5 than Richard's one: being able to convert any valid ePub file to make it readable with any modern browser both offline and online. But of course, this ought to be extendable to multiple book pools. Jeremy, can you summarize your vision of TiddlySpace and TiddlyWeb with respect to TW5? Best regards, Xavier. -- Xavier Cazin On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard > > > I have an ambitious idea of how TW could be used to build open-source > textbooks for high school students by allowing multiple > intersecting/overlapping editions of each book to co-exist, drawn from a > common pool of educational fragments. > > That's exactly the model that I was interested in at BT when we were > working on TiddlyWeb and then TiddlySpace. > > Dickon Bevington's AMBIT project is built in the same way; it's a manual > for adolescent psychiatry. Here's the core content: > > http://ambit.tiddlyspace.com > > And here's an example of a specific manual built for a particular team: > > http://ambit-casus.tiddlyspace.com > > There's also Steven Schneider from SUNY who's been using TiddlySpace as > part of his hypertext course for many years. You'll find some detailed > posts from both Dickon and Steven on the TiddlySpace and TiddlyWeb google > groups, worth having a look. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Richard Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi There. >> >> My name is Richard and I am a huge fan of TiddlyWiki. I think it is a >> really awesome project and I thank you all greatly for it. >> >> I have an ambitious idea of how TW could be used to build open-source >> textbooks for high school students by allowing multiple >> intersecting/overlapping editions of each book to co-exist, drawn from a >> common pool of educational fragments. >> >> From what I have read so far it seems that TW, with TiddlyWeb as a >> back-end, has basically all of the functionality necessary to make this >> happen in a rudimentary way. >> >> I am currently building a prototype to demonstrate how I imagine such a >> thing might work and am learning how to use TiddlyWeb by working through >> the documentation. >> >> I'm not stupid with computers, but nor do I have any serious >> web-developer chops. I've set myself the task of learning javascript as >> quickly as possible, but I'm still pretty far out of my depth and I hope I >> will be able to ask some silly questions here as I go. You do all seem very >> friendly. >> >> My question today is whether there is anything out there already which >> is similar to what I've described? I have searched extensively but I >> still figured it best to ask the community. I have read that there are >> several educational projects already using TW, including Unamesa, who's >> site I have seen, but as far as I can tell they are only using TW for >> content-delivery and not content-creation or collaboration. >> >> I would also appreciate any advice at all that you might have about my >> idea - especially if there's some reason you don't think it will work. >> >> Cheers >> Richard >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
