Ossi A. Nykänen
ABSTRACT
The lack of proper authoring tools provides a practical but a very significant challenge for adopting new technologies and applications concepts. In this article, we identify a development strategy called "productification", which suggests transforming some application-specific authoring tasks into tasks of using common-purpose authoring tools and systems. In brief, the objective is typically to transform and harness the power of the existing office and productivity applications for various authoring etc. tasks, while consuming the information in novel applications, also learning from experience. To demonstrate and discuss this approach, we present a case study of using spreadsheets in collaborative semantic modeling of a core curriculum. Besides pointing out an efficient approach for collaborative semantic modeling, we use the productified authoring system to analyze the related core curriculum development process, making observations that help designing machine-understandable, high-quality core curriculums.
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- Productification for collaborative semantic modeling
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