CGPublisher for Organisations
CGPublisher is a web environment which supports knowledge management in organisations.
CGPublisher is:
- Distributed
- Individual members of the organisation, teams, and project groups are centres of content creation through self-maintained websites (personal portfolio and collaborative publishing sites).
- Collaborative
- Project members, team members and expert outsiders can work together on drafts of a work; team and project leaders can access works as they progress towards publication. CGPublishesr formalises and nurtures lateral communications though mirrored web and email messaging.
- Visible
- A standards based approach means that published works can find a variety of highly visible ‘homes’—the completed works talk to electronic library catalogues, publishing, web syndication, elearning systems and alternative electronic and print rendering formats.
Main features of CGPublisher include:
- The Personal Website
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- A private digital workspace for version control of drafts of works, and providing work-by-work access to co-creators, contributors and publishers.
- Manages relationships with publishers working within and beyond the CGPublisher environment (the creator can assign access rights to outside publishers).
- A bookstore for the free distribution or sale of the creator’s published works, created within and beyond CGPublisher.
- A digital portfolio in which the creator can also make their ‘unpublished works’ available to the public.
- A self-maintainable website expressing public and professional identity, including biographical information and a CV, diary and schedule, news, links, gallery and contact information.
- The Publisher Site
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- A community-building space which manages workflow, determines quality standards and publishes works.
- Manages copyright, either by default assumptions about the relationships between the parties, or negotiated online publishing agreements.
- An online bookstore of community works, publishing simultaneously to each creator’s personal bookstore.
- A publisher-maintainable website including community notices, discussions and work copied for educational purposes such as course notes.
Use Cases
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The team leader as co-ordinator of a publishing community
- Team members have self-maintained personal websites.
- Team members each have private workspaces for drafts of work.
- Team member websites include online ‘bookstores’ into which completed ‘works’ are published (such as reports, plans, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations), evolving as a digital portfolio.
- Team members can invite collaborators to share the same work in the case of joint work, supported by a messaging system and audit trail.
- The team leader can access and comment upon works-in-progress.
- Team members can invite other students and outside experts to referee works-in-progress.
- The team leader publishes team member works to the team (publishing) site and the members’ author sites.
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The whole organisation
- Cascading approach to centres of publishing activity across the organisation.
- Infrastructure for the management of internal organisational knowledge and externally accessible publications.
Take-Up Strategies
- Bottom-Up
- provide members of the organisation with personal websites and private collaboration spaces, and they will make the connections which will build organically into knowledge communities.
- Top-Down
- a content-management approach which aims to systematise knowledge and learning flows and provide good stewardship of an organisation’s IP.
The Technology
- As simple as a web browser plus Word, and can manage any digital content and file formats.
- Open source, standards based.
- Built on the ‘semantic web’ foundation, Common Ground Markup Language (CGML), a world-leading technology in publishing standards and interoperability.