OUCS Web Editing

Our aims are to:

provide all levels of user with timely, appropriate, accurate and readable information
delegate updating of material to appropriate expert staff, both inside and outside OUCS
support authors of all levels with appropriate tools and systems
maintain and enforce high standards of accessibility and information interchange

The type of systems at our disposal to meet these aims are:

for which the appropriate uses are as follows

Static web pages: authoritative documentation (eg most of www.oucs, welcometoit.ox etc)
Dynamic pages: database display (eg course booking system)
Wiki sites: non-authoritative, multiple-author, transient (eg help centre)
OXITEMS: structured news items (eg OUCS news)
Weblearn: material to support teaching
Personal web pages: pictures of your cat

Authoritative OUCS documentation is written wherever possible in XML, and most of the static web site is in this format. The advantages are:

Documentation and Resources:

How to use oXygen at OUCS (this is our preferred XML editor).
How to use oXygen Subversion client (this is our preferred Subversion client).
How the Publish button works
Guide to making XML documents (includes accessibility issues)
Technical documentation of OUCS customization of TEI schema
Demonstrating OUCS-specific techniques
teioop4-2009-02-05.jar: OpenOffice filters to generate TEI P4 XML
teioop5-2009-02-05.jar: OpenOffice filters to generate TEI P5 XML
oxitems/: information about OXITEMS
http://www.w3c.org: World Wide Web Consortium site, with details of all the XML-related Recommendations

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