Abstracts of Conference Papers -
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XML For The Masses - An Open Office XML File Format
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| Michael Brauer Technical Lead Software Engineering, Star Office Software Entwicklungs GmbH |
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.
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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| 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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Integration of StarOffice
/ OpenOffice.org with Tamino |
| Robert Diawara Sales Consultant, Software AG,
Alsfelder Strasse 15-19, 64289 Darmstadt |
| Motivation, description of technical concepts and
Aspects for the customer. Outlook to the future. |
| 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. |
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OpenOffice.org as an
Authoring Tool in the FIGARO
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| Dr. Wiebke Oeltjen Regional Computer Centre at
the University of Hamburg, Schlüterstr. 70,
D-20146 Hamburg |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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1dok.org - a new view on
digital documents |
| Bernd Schuster project leader, 1dok.org, c/o
MSK Gesellschaft für Automatisierung mbH,
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 33, D-22869 Schenefeld |
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.
While working on our project we discovered some
interesting possibilities concerning digital
documents. Some of the highlights are (refer to
www.1dok.org for further
details):
- Enriching digital documents by adding semantic
structures
- Defining extensible canons on base of the 1dok
meta data model
- Storing digital documents in an associative
manner.
- Communicating documents by use of the 1dok
protocol
- Describing meta data for digital documents by
using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
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Save as XDiML
(DissertationMarkupLanguage) Writing and
Converting digital Theses and Dissertations using
OpenOffice.org |
| Sabine Henneberger, Matthias Schulz, Jakob Voss
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Computer und
Medienservices, Electronic Publishing Group, 12489
Berlin, Rudower Chausee 26 |
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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
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Biographies: Sabine Henneberger is a member of
the Electronic Publishing Group of the Computer and
Mediaservices at Humboldt University, Berlin since
2002.
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.
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. |
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Automated Format
Transformation for Courseware |
| Lutz Finsterle, Martin Rotard Researchers,
University of Stuttgart |
We describe and demonstrate tools employing
OpenOffice.org to generate reusable and exchangeable
learning-materials.
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.
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.
Handling of text documents:
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.
Converting slide presentations to SVG:
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:
- Export of the complete presentation
- Adding navigation and index mechanisms
- Preliminary support for animations
- Correction of glyph spacing issues
- On-the-fly embedding of non-standard fonts
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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Biographies:
Lutz Finsterle:
05 Nov. 1969 born in Berlin/Germany
1989 to 1996 Studied Mathematics and Physics at the TU
Darmstadt
1996 to 1999 Researcher and staff-member at the
Industrial Process and System Communications Lab at the
TU Darmstadt.
1997 to 1999 Leader of the Metropolitan Area Network
of the research Institutes in Darmstadt
since 1999 Researcher and staff-member of the
Institute of Communication Networks and Computer
Engineering.
Engaged in the multimedia teaching projects CANDLE1
and ITO2.
Martin Rotard:
1995 to 2001 Studied Computer Science at the
University of Stuttgart
Since 2001 Researcher at the Visualization and
Interactive Systems
Group of the University of Stuttgart in the Project
ITO
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