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digress.it version 2.3 was released last…

Joss Winn / / Microblog

digress.it version 2.3 was released last night and this marks the last major release of this WordPress plugin funded within the time frame of the JISCPress project. It is worth pointing out that our project funding effectively boot strapped the re-birth of CommentPress and paid for Eddie Tejeda, the original CommentPress developer, to rewrite CommentPress from scratch into digress.it. I was recently told that this work has led to Eddie being asked by Cornell University to work on a really interesting and high-profile digress.it-based project for them which we’ll be announcing soon. It’s great to see JISC’s work sustained in this way and hear that digress.it will be properly maintained through additional funding.

This release brings better IE6 & 7 compatibility, a smoother, better Comment Box, a document section level comment view, an option to parse lists into separately commentable points, BuddyPress compatibility, document section level feeds and a bunch of bug fixes. Overall, it feels like stable, feature rich code.

As noted above, we added one more RSS feature which now means digress.it can be used as an RSS feed builder. Each paragraph in any given blog post/document section, can be extracted as an RSS feed ‘item’. See http://writetoreply.org/jiscstrategyreview/feed/paragraphlevel/8-measuring-success/ for an example (and note the /feed/paragraphlevel/post_slug/ syntax used!)

I’ll be writing more in the next day or so about all the other ‘open data’ end points that we’ve developed during the JISCPress project.

I am at Lincoln LocalGovCamp, where 30 o…

Joss Winn / / Microblog

I am at Lincoln LocalGovCamp, where 30 or so people have gathered to create an unconference around improving local government online. This morning, I started a session on online consultations where I talked about WriteToReply and the development of our ideas and the platform through the JISCPress project. There was a lot of positive feedback and twitter back channel chat about our work which was really encouraging. People seemed to appreciate our efforts around making the platform a source for open data via the URI switches, RSS feeds and Triplify end points. I’ve just given a five minute video interview where I introduce WriteToReply and JISCPress. It should appear on http://www.lgeoresearch.com/ soon.

We’ve got paragraph data output switche…

Joss Winn / / Microblog

We’ve got paragraph data output switches!

http://test.jiscpress.org/?p=15&digressit-embed=1&format=xml
http://test.jiscpress.org/?p=15&digressit-embed=1&format=text
http://test.jiscpress.org/?p=15&digressit-embed=1&format=rss
http://test.jiscpress.org/?p=15&digressit-embed=1&format=html
http://test.jiscpress.org/?p=15&digressit-embed=1&format=json

Err, I’ll let Tony explain what we might do with those…

Yesterday, I posted to the JISCPress mai…

Joss Winn / / Microblog

Yesterday, I posted to the JISCPress mailing list about our use of semantic technologies. It’s a useful summary of where we are. I spoke to Leigh at Talis today and he thinks it’s a good approach with many potential benefits. He’s giving us access to the Talis Connected Commons platform. http://groups.google.com/group/jiscpress/browse_thread/thread/d2e69455c72f724a

#jiscri #talis Alex has checked in his W…

Joss Winn / / Microblog

#jiscri #talis Alex has checked in his WPMU Triplify script to Google Code. http://j.mp/78ywC This creates Linked Data RDF triples (or JSON) directly from the WPMU MySQL database. I wrote about this a while back: http://j.mp/2zXiR Our next step is to automate the upload of the RDF to Talis Connected Commons for use through their API: http://n2.talis.com/wiki/Platform_API The idea is that if the JISCPress platform was populated with hundreds/thousands of documents, each of these documents could become Linked Data (http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html). The content would be stored on the JISCPress platform but the RDF triples, pushed nightly to Talis.