[OAI-general] D3E released: add peer review functionality to OAI archives

[Simon Buckingham Shum]

Dear OAI colleagues,

The Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) is released today for
free download, most components open source with others to follow.

Of specific interest to the OAI community may be "Ubiquitous-D3E", 
which enables you to publish any website in the world for discussion. 
This of course could be a threaded peer review discussion on an OAI 
URL (which is in fact the example illustrated at 
http://d3e.open.ac.uk/ubiquitous-d3e.html). Try it now on your 
archive at http://otis.open.ac.uk/ubiq/

The main announcement is below.

Simon

(In the context of an ejournal (as opposed to an eprint archive), 
we've been using D3E for interactive web peer review debate since 
1996: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk)


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    D3E: Digital Document Discourse Environment
         http://d3e.open.ac.uk

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2nd November, 2001

The Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E) is released today for
free download, most components open source with others to follow.


WHAT IS D3E?

Use D3E to publish web discussion documents. The content (any web 
media) is linked visually and explicitly to a threaded discussion 
space. Bibliographic citations, footnotes and section headings are 
also converted to hyperlinks to assist navigation, especially in 
large documents. Document and discussions are bound together as a 
single artifact.

Since discussion documents underpin almost all knowledge-intensive 
work, D3E has found numerous applications in its 5 year evolution. 
Some examples are on the site, including journal peer review, 
distance learning, participatory software design, and strategic 
planning.

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D3E is available in two forms:

   1. Full-D3E:
      Publisher's Toolkit: desktop Java application
      + a Web discussion system: D3E-Phorum or D3E-HyperNews
      (customizations of the open source Phorum and HyperNews systems)

   2. Ubiquitous-D3E:
      A server-side application, with any web browser as client;
      enables you to publish any website in the world for discussion

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Details, Demos, Documents + Downloads at http://d3e.open.ac.uk

    Yours,

    The D3E Project

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                  D3E is a collaborative project between

        Knowledge Media Institute / Learning & Teaching Solutions
                         The Open University, UK
            http://kmi.open.ac.uk   http://www2.open.ac.uk/CES

                  Center for LifeLong Learning & Design
                  University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
                     http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d

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