RE: W3C alternatives for SIMILE web and cvs hosting

Hi Team,

I don't think a WIKI is quite what we need. We need a way of giving the team
access to the SIMILE documents so that anyone can get any version of a
document and track changes on the document. However changes will be made by
editors, based on a managed issue list submitted by team members. The
documents are in HTML so I think CVS / ViewCVS will fulfil our needs for
access and change management.

WIKI's have their place as general discussion tools, so we may like to
consider a WIKI as well, but I think our primary need is for something else.

br,

Dr Mark H. Butler
Research Scientist                HP Labs Bristol
mark-h_butler@hp.com
Internet: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/marbut/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:kenzie@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: 02 April 2003 23:01
> To: Dan Brickley; Bass, Mick
> Cc: Eric Miller (em@w3.org); SIMILE public list
> Subject: Re: W3C alternatives for SIMILE web and cvs hosting
> 
> 
> 
> We've been using a wiki in the Libraries' systems office to great
> success for the past year -- not so much for the group authoring
> features but as a sort of collaborative posting space. Were you
> thinking that SIMILE could use your wiki, or set one up of its own
> (which would be easy, I gather)?
> 
> MacKenzie/
> 
> At 01:45 PM 4/2/2003 -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
> 
> >Hi there,
> >
> >Just to jump in on one point (I'll leave it to Eric to 
> comment on your
> >_actual_ questions!)...
> >
> >As part of other SWAD activities (SWAD-Europe initially, but also the
> >MIT-based DARPA funded work lately) we are hosting a "Wiki" system at
> >http://esw.w3.org/topic/FrontPage as a way of linking up 
> collaborative work
> >across various 'Advanced Development' efforts, W3C Interest 
> Group discussions
> >and suchlike. That page links to background info on Wiki. In 
> short it is a
> >Web-based document editing environment with an emphasis on ease of
> >update, and open (publically writable) authoring. It has 
> some useful tools
> >(graphical diffs, cookie-based 'who changed this' logging, 
> recent changes
> >list, RSS view etc) and seems to be proving itself useful.
> >
> >I don't know how this fits with the needs and goals of 
> SIMILE, but you
> >might find it a useful, and are very welcome to make use of it...
> >
> >Let me know if this is of interest and whether further details would
> >be useful,
> >
> >all the best,
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >* Bass, Mick <mick.bass@hp.com> [2003-04-02 07:53-0800]
> > >
> > > Eric:
> > >
> > > Are there W3C-homed alternatives for:
> > >       - web hosting (outbound information sharing)
> > >       - cvs hosting (for both project docs and 
> open-source source code, 
> > no HP proprietary stuff)
> > >       - webapp hosting (e.g. ViewCVS 
> <http://viewcvs.sourceforge.net/>)
> > >
> > > For the SIMILE project?
> > >
> > > I'm looking into HP-hosted outside-firewall alternatives 
> as well...
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > - Mick
> > >
> > > References:
> > > 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-dspace/2003Apr/0002.html
> > >
> > > 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-dspace/2003Apr/0001.html
> > >
> > > 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-dspace/2003Mar/0014.html
> > >
> > > =============================================
> > > Mick Bass
> > >
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> > > Research and Business Development
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> > >
> > >
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> > > bass@alum.mit.edu      mick_bass@hp.com
> > > =============================================
> >
> 
> MacKenzie Smith
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> MIT Libraries
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>

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