How It Works
BookForge Process Overview: quick narrative
BookForge contains several Book Projects. All of these have Authors and Readers. Authors must be registered users. Readers do not have to register. A Book Project is "owned" by a managing editor.
Contributing to BookForge
1. Register with BookForge to become an Author.
2. Pick or suggest a book topic to write.
3. Read the book so far and contribute!
4. Editors nominate the managing editor of a Book Project.
The managing editor takes care of ensuring the quality of content. S/he also spearheads activities that will resolve issues such us contested content.
Quality Control
1. Readers and Authors are allowed to comment on a book project.
All comments are to be accepted with an open mind. Remember that our goal is to put out excellent books that will withstand the most stringent scrutiny.
2. During a regular period, managing editors review the comments on each book page.
3. In case of questions that need resolution, managing editors need to initiate activities such us doing research, inviting a panel of experts, etc.
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Book Cover
It's also nice to allow members of a book project to upload an image of the book cover, a thumb nail version and full page version.
The thumbnail version together with the book description, can be used in the book listing or book overview. While the full page version can be used during printing or dpf viewing. This covers a whole page.
Of users and authors
My suggestions ..
Registered user can be an author, a reader, and a reviewer.
An unauthenticated user (or unregistered user) can also be a reader and reviewer (thru commenting).
Registered user can be an author by:
1. initiating a creation of certain Book (e.g. Mathematics for Grade 6). Thus, this user automatically becomes the owner of this 'book' project. He/she creates the initial page(s) of the 'book' like Introduction, the outline, etc. He/she controls the revision (rollbacks), approve/disapprove other users(registered) who want to co-author (contribute, edit, add pages) to the 'book'.
2. joining to an existing 'book' project. he/she then can add, edit pages.
Any user can be a reader by just browsing the bookforge site and read a finished or on-going 'book' project. This user can also print or download a PDF version.
And, any user can be a reviewer by just citing (thru commenting module) any error. The member(s) of the 'book' project then can verify the correction (thru research or simulation) and make changes if necessary.
Author, reader, reviewer scope: Global!
End result: Good, Quality and Free textbooks (or books) for everybody!
All your base are belong to us.
we'll need a user's manual
ayos ang suggestions na yan. it just occured to me that we'll need a users manual on drupal's book module for this. i just discovered that the drupal book module is fairly well-implemented, with version control, rollback and commenting (i'm using it here, ain't i?).
sige. coming soon
Yes we do
Yes we do need a users manual for this book module. We'll need a lot of hacking to facilitate these functionalities. Or maybe not really a lot. Just some. Where's Jheff?
Can we have mind-map on this??
I think it would be great if we make a mind-map of BookForge. Like what drupal has on its 4.6 battle plan.
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