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Agenda for November 29, 2007 Working meeting of the DITA learning and training content specialization SC

See the main SC wiki page - http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/LearningSubcommittee
Roll call
Announcements
Today's Topics:
1. Status of the design and language specification -
  - November 13 - The DITA TC votes to approve our Design and Language specification for DITA learning in the DITA 1.2 plan!
    - The current specification documents and sample OT plugin are available to the public on these OASIS pages:
      - Summary design proposal - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25901/Issueditalearningspec12058.html
      - PDF of the full specification - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25946/DITAlearningspecialization_ref_book_lite.pdf
      - DITA Open Toolkit plugin - http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25915/learningsc_plugin.zip
  - November - December - We tackle processing, with primary target of SCORM and secondary target PDF, according to our Phased Design Plan. The processing would get delivered separately from the DTD/schema designs and language specification, and made available to the community as part of a DITA Open Toolkit plugin module on a schedule TBD.
2. Other news or announcements
3. Brainstorming - What processing to target?
  - See Processing Targets

Minutes

Attendees: John Hunt, Robin Sloan, Reuben Tozman.

No quorum. We discussed processing priorities.

SCORM is the highest priority processing target, but SCORM is a big thing. What are the priorities for SCORM processing?
- Need to be able to package content according to the SCORM packaging standard.
- Need to accept and transmit calls with a SCORM LMS.
- SCORM package must have:
  - imsmanifest.xml
    - What sub-set do we need to support?
      - DITAmap -> imsmanifest
      - For SCORM, we need to treat linking specially.
      - Even within a SCO, need to be concerned.
      - We need to prevent links to other sco's.
        Our learning map domain limits topicrefs in a learningObject to a flat list, so we're okay there.
      - We can also control the map-driven processing of links.
      - We will need best practices for other kinds of linking, including reltables, though we can add filters to the processing for those links.
    - Within a SCO, keep linking to next and previous only.
    - Also, there's the case of linking internally within a company intranet.
    - A SCORM package really has no main menu - the LMS would derive this by reading the imsmanifest.
  - Do we support the SCORM index file?
  - Q - do we want to provide an alternative "mini-runtime" environment? That is, a set of html files that can be viewed (and perhaps provide some function for sequencing or interactions) outside the context of an LMS.
  - Robin - What if you own an LMS, and you want to test/review the material outside of the LMS?
  - Reuben - EdCetra provides a dual-purpose package, where the same set of files can run both in SCORM LMS and
    - as a stand-alone CD.
  - They have found that an autorun CD is the simplest option for distributing content on a CD.
  - Probably need a package that does not require an writing to a local drive.
  - What kind of PDF support?
    - To pick up a discuss from here next meeting.