SBIR Phase I: Adaptive Authoring for Compound XML Documents: Collaboration Tools and eLearning Content Creation for STEM

SBIR 第一阶段：复合 XML 文档的自适应创作：STEM 的协作工具和电子学习内容创建

• 批准号: 0638257
• 负责人: Samuel Dooley
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Integre Technical Publishing Company, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0638257&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Adaptive; Authoring; Compound

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research project seeks to establish the feasibility of creating intuitive user interfaces that enable direct authoring of compound XML documents, and especially to documents that include mathematical and scientific notation. The project will produce a preliminary framework for customizable XML editing interfaces, as well as prototypes for an instant messaging client and a web-based discussion board that support MathML markup. The key innovation in this work is the development of a configurable authoring framework that implements the different editing modes needed to create content using diverse XML vocabularies, and that negotiates the transitions and relationships among these vocabularies as they come together to produce documents that are rich in information and potentially interactive. This framework will extend to multiple XML vocabularies a similar framework that Integre has previously developed for the single vocabulary of MathML.Collaboration tools like instant messaging and web discussion boards are now used pervasively in both educational and social contexts, but are underutilized by mathematics and scientific communities because these tools lack sufficient support for mathematical notation. This project will result in first-generation applications that let math and science students engage more fully in web-based collaborative learning, that let students and their instructors communicate concepts more clearly using current technologies, and that foster the development of online research communities. Subsequent research will provide a means of creating more informative and responsive content for web-based instruction. The proposed authoring framework directly addresses an issue that is critical to the further development and impact of XML as a standard and that has been pursued in various forms within the standards community, namely the ability to integrate multiple XML vocabularies on an as-needed basis to capture as much information as possible within a document. This research will inform the discussion of such compound documents, and potentially contribute to the ongoing advancement of XML technologies.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）研究项目旨在建立创建直观的用户界面，使复合XML文档，特别是包括数学和科学计数法的文档的直接创作的可行性。该项目将为可定制的XML编辑界面生成一个初步框架，以及支持MathML标记的即时消息客户端和基于Web的讨论板的原型。在这项工作中的关键创新是开发一个可配置的创作框架，实现不同的编辑模式，需要使用不同的XML词汇表创建内容，并协商这些词汇表之间的转换和关系，因为它们走到一起，以产生丰富的信息和潜在的互动文档。这个框架将扩展到多个XML词汇表，这是Integre以前为MathML的单个词汇表开发的类似框架。像即时消息和Web讨论板这样的协作工具现在在教育和社会环境中普遍使用，但数学和科学界没有充分利用这些工具，因为这些工具缺乏对数学符号的足够支持。该项目将产生第一代应用程序，让数学和科学学生更充分地参与基于网络的协作学习，让学生和他们的教师使用当前技术更清楚地传达概念，并促进在线研究社区的发展。随后的研究将提供一种方法，为基于网络的教学创造更多的信息和响应内容。拟议的创作框架直接解决了一个问题，这是至关重要的进一步发展和影响的XML作为一个标准，并已在各种形式的标准社区，即能够集成多个XML词汇表的需要的基础上，以捕捉尽可能多的信息尽可能在一个文件。这项研究将为这种复合文档的讨论提供信息，并可能有助于XML技术的不断发展。