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| XML For The Masses - An Open Office XML File Format |
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| <td>Michael Brauer <em>Technical Lead Software Engineering, Star Office Software Entwicklungs GmbH</em></td> |
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| OpenOffice.org 1.0 features a new default file format based |
| on the Extensible Markup Language, XML. This is one of the |
| first applications of XML in a widespread consumer product. |
| Through OpenOffice.org this format is not only developed |
| in an open manner, it now also the base for an OASIS |
| effort to create a standardized file format for |
| office productivity applications like word processors, |
| presentation and spreadsheet programs. |
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| This talk will cover the benefits the XML based file |
| format will bring to office suite users as well as |
| developers of solutions surrounding office productivity. |
| Additionally, it will give some insight into the OASIS |
| Open Office XML Technical Committee. |
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| <td><em>Biography: |
| Michael Brauer is a technical lead at Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
| and the lead of the OpenOffice.org XML Project that |
| developed the OpenOffice.org XML file format. |
| He is also chair of the OASIS Open Office XML |
| Format Technical Committee that creates an standardized |
| file format for office productivity applications |
| like word processors, presentation and spreadsheet programs. |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Integration of StarOffice |
| / OpenOffice.org with Tamino</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Robert Diawara <em>Sales Consultant, Software AG, |
| Alsfelder Strasse 15-19, 64289 Darmstadt</em></td> |
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| <td>Motivation, description of technical concepts and |
| Aspects for the customer. Outlook to the future.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: Employee of Software AG since 1999. |
| From 1999 to 2000, system architect, responsible for |
| the development of frameworks and customer solutions. |
| Member of the Sales Consultancy since |
| 01.2001.</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>OpenOffice.org as an |
| Authoring Tool in the FIGARO |
| Project</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Dr. Wiebke Oeltjen <em>Regional Computer Centre at |
| the University of Hamburg, Schlüterstr. 70, |
| D-20146 Hamburg</em></td> |
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| <td>FIGARO is a federal European project to set up an |
| infrastructure for academic e-publishing. This |
| consortium is a combination of two academic publishing |
| initiatives with GAP (University of Hamburg, Karlsruhe |
| and Oldenburg) and Roquade (university libraries of |
| Delft and Utrecht) together with other academic |
| institutions and partners. The objective of this |
| project is the enhancement of the scientific publishing |
| process through providing an infrastructure with |
| effective and efficient e-publishing services. The |
| technical part of the infrastructure is based on open |
| source software and in particular on the OpenOffice.org |
| system as an authoring tool. Compatibility and |
| expandability as well as the XML-based document |
| transformation to DocBook are the main benefits |
| wherefore the OpenOffice.org system will be part of our |
| publishing environment.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biography: Wiebke Oeltjen is a computer |
| scientist. For several years she worked at the |
| university in education and research in the area of |
| e-publishing and human-computer interaction. As a |
| consultant at Poet Software she had to do with the |
| content management system CMS and with e-business |
| software. Now she is working in the FIGARO project at |
| the University of Hamburg in the Regional Computer |
| Centre.</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>1dok.org - a new view on |
| digital documents</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Bernd Schuster <em>project leader, 1dok.org, c/o |
| MSK Gesellschaft für Automatisierung mbH, |
| Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 33, D-22869 Schenefeld</em></td> |
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| The non-profit project 1dok.org which we are carrying |
| out on behalf of the German federal state |
| Schleswig-Holstein and the European Commission's GD |
| Regio aims at establishing an open standard format, |
| non-specific of vendors, for electronic documents on |
| XML base.<br /> |
| While working on our project we discovered some |
| interesting possibilities concerning digital |
| documents. Some of the highlights are (refer to |
| <a href="http://www.1dok.org">www.1dok.org</a> for further |
| details):<br /> |
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| <li>Enriching digital documents by adding semantic |
| structures</li> |
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| <li>Defining extensible canons on base of the 1dok |
| meta data model</li> |
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| <li>Storing digital documents in an associative |
| manner.</li> |
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| <li>Communicating documents by use of the 1dok |
| protocol</li> |
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| <li>Describing meta data for digital documents by |
| using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)</li> |
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| <td><em>Biography:</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Save as XDiML |
| (DissertationMarkupLanguage)</strong> Writing and |
| Converting digital Theses and Dissertations using |
| OpenOffice.org</font></td> |
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| <td>Sabine Henneberger, Matthias Schulz, Jakob Voss |
| <em>Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Computer und |
| Medienservices, Electronic Publishing Group, 12489 |
| Berlin, Rudower Chausee 26</em></td> |
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| <td>For 5 years now, doctoral candidates of Humboldt- |
| University at Berlin can choose the digital publication |
| as one option to publish their dissertation. The |
| "Electronic Publishing" Group provides stylesheets for |
| Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and Staroffice/Openoffice.org |
| in order to allow the authors to structure their |
| digital documents semantically.<br /> |
| It is neccessary to prepare documents that way, |
| because they are converted into an XMl format |
| afterwards. The XML document than is an instance of the |
| xDiML.DTD (DissertationMarkupLanguage). This DTD has |
| been developed within several electronic publishing |
| projects at Humboldt-University.<br /> |
| Since 1997 an SGML/XML- based concept for the long |
| term preservation of digital publications has been |
| used, in order to store digital documents in an media |
| neutral archival format, to use the possibilities of a |
| structered retrieval within the semantic structures of |
| documents, and to enable an automated production of |
| different information products (like PDF format for |
| print, HTML for WWW layout, metadata for use within |
| different retrieval networks).<br /> |
| In order to increase the efficiency of OpenOffice.org with |
| its end format XML, a document style sheet and a filter |
| for Openoffice.org was developed at the Computer- and Media |
| Service of Humboldt- University. Authors are enabled to |
| write their digital dissertation using this document |
| style sheet and to save those within an XML based |
| format.<br /> |
| At the same time the "Electronic Publishing Group" |
| uses OpenOffice.org as a conversion tool to convert |
| Microsoft Word documents written with the digital |
| dissertation stylesheet as XML.<br /> |
| This talk will focus on demonstrating the needs for a |
| dissertation.dtd and its structure. Secondly the |
| converter "save as xDiml" will be presented and the |
| advantages and disadvantages of writing a complex |
| document as a dissertation using OpenOffice.org will be |
| discussed.</td> |
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| <td><em>Biographies: Sabine Henneberger is a member of |
| the Electronic Publishing Group of the Computer and |
| Mediaservices at Humboldt University, Berlin since |
| 2002.<br /> |
| Matthias Schulz, studied arthistory and library |
| science at the Humboldt-University. In 1996, during the |
| study library sience he started using SGML and |
| developing DTDs. In 1997 he started working in the |
| project "Digitale Dissertation" at the Comuting Center. |
| He developed the first DiML.dtd in SGML out of the |
| ETD-ML.dtd of Virginia Tech in 1997. Today he works in |
| the Computer an Mediaservices, (formaly Computing |
| Center) at Humboldt-University.<br /> |
| Jakob Voss is a member of the Electronic Publishing |
| Group of the Computer and Mediaservices at Humboldt |
| University, Berlin since 2001. He developed the main |
| parts of XDiML, the DTD in XML Format.</em></td> |
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| <font color="#FFFFFF"><strong>Automated Format |
| Transformation for Courseware</strong></font></td> |
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| <td>Lutz Finsterle, Martin Rotard <em>Researchers, |
| University of Stuttgart</em></td> |
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| We describe and demonstrate tools employing |
| OpenOffice.org to generate reusable and exchangeable |
| learning-materials.<br /> |
| We developed an open framework for documents in |
| educational applications based on the requirements of |
| the "ITO" (Information Technology Online) project |
| which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of |
| Education and Research" (BMBF). The project partners |
| decided to keep their well-known authoring tools |
| (OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, |
| LaTeX, etc.), but we wanted to have an open document |
| standard in order to make exchange and reuse of newly |
| generated and existing content feasible. Thus, based |
| on the profound import/export capabilities of |
| OpenOffice.org, we developed solutions to support |
| this task.<br /> |
| Our first approach handles the transformation of |
| text documents (OpenOffice.org Writer, Microsoft |
| Word, RTF, etc.) into a hierarchical structured set |
| of learning objects. The other one deals with slide |
| presentations as generated by OpenOffice.org Impress |
| and Microsoft PowerPoint.<br /> |
| Handling of text documents:<br /> |
| To satisfy all requirements of our courseware system |
| there is a special need to differentiate between |
| structure, content and layout. The OpenOffice.org |
| XMLdocument format provides a starting point for a |
| transformation, which fulfills these needs. To |
| identify the semantics, structure and metadata of the |
| content to be processed, we have defined a set of |
| style templates. E.g. we defined paragraph styles |
| like "introduction", "motivation", "definition", |
| "rights", "example" etc. and text styles like |
| "keyword", "index", "reference", "citation", |
| "significant" etc. Those paragraph styles appear in |
| the "content.xml" file of the OpenOffice.org file format. |
| Together with the embedded information provided by |
| the use of those template we are able to transform |
| conforming documents to our intermediate |
| format.<br /> |
| Converting slide presentations to SVG:<br /> |
| Slide presentations are the most commonly used media |
| to present lecture material today. Thus, a huge |
| amount of time has already been invested to generate |
| this material. This effort must be preserved when |
| assembling online courseware. Seamless transformation |
| to a web-enabled format is the key issue here. To |
| handle the different formats and features such as |
| animations and navigation within the repository the |
| presentations have to be transformed into SVG, the |
| upcoming W3C standard for two-dimensional graphics in |
| the web. OpenOffice.org allows the export of slides into |
| SVG. Unfortunately, the export of only one slide at a |
| time is possible from the user interface. External |
| tools must be used for scripting this behavior and |
| other issues concerning font handling and animations |
| must be addressed. We implemented the following |
| features in our slide exporting tool which is based |
| on Java and uses OpenOffice.org's SDK and the UNO |
| interface: |
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| <ul> |
| <li>Export of the complete presentation</li> |
| |
| <li>Adding navigation and index mechanisms</li> |
| |
| <li>Preliminary support for animations</li> |
| |
| <li>Correction of glyph spacing issues</li> |
| |
| <li>On-the-fly embedding of non-standard fonts</li> |
| </ul>We have shown that OpenOffice.org supports an |
| integrated platform for open courseware management |
| and document transformations. We have implemented a |
| utility for transforming appropriately structured |
| OpenOffice.org documents to our XML-based intermediate |
| courseware format. An additional utility allows the |
| automatic conversion of slide presentations into the |
| SVG format, thus alleviating the need for manual |
| conversion of proprietary documents. |
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| <td><em>Biographies:<br> Lutz Finsterle:<br /> |
| 05 Nov. 1969 born in Berlin/Germany<br /> |
| 1989 to 1996 Studied Mathematics and Physics at the TU |
| Darmstadt<br /> |
| 1996 to 1999 Researcher and staff-member at the |
| Industrial Process and System Communications Lab at the |
| TU Darmstadt.<br /> |
| 1997 to 1999 Leader of the Metropolitan Area Network |
| of the research Institutes in Darmstadt<br /> |
| since 1999 Researcher and staff-member of the |
| Institute of Communication Networks and Computer |
| Engineering.<br /> |
| Engaged in the multimedia teaching projects CANDLE1 |
| and ITO2.<br /> |
| Martin Rotard:<br /> |
| 1995 to 2001 Studied Computer Science at the |
| University of Stuttgart<br /> |
| Since 2001 Researcher at the Visualization and |
| Interactive Systems<br /> |
| Group of the University of Stuttgart in the Project |
| ITO<br /></em></td> |
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