SWiM, the Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management, is now being used for the revision of the OpenMath 3 Content Dictionaries. The wiki at wiki.openmath.org contains the latest draft versions of these content dictionaries. Anybody can browse and discuss. The OpenMath 3 developers can also edit. This paper explains how the system works.

Detailed description of the ongoing case study

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The presentations of the JEM activity

Symposium on

"Math tutoring: tools and feedback"
Heerlen, 18-19 September 2008

are now online.
The presentations can be found at the website
http://ideas.cs.uu.nl/wiki/index.php/Symposium

At the symposium both the technical as wel as the didactical aspects of
mathematical elearning and feedback tools have been discussed.

odt2dtbook has recently received the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Gold Award. This award recognises work carried out with Vincent Spiewak on the development of the odt2dtbook, an OpenOffice.org-writer “export to DTBook XML” extension (see http://chezdom.net/blog/?p=61). The story was published yesterday on Sun website: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/features/2008-0924/, including an interview of several winners.

Thanks a lot to the OpenOffice.org community and to Sun Microsystems. It means so much that an Assistive Technology project gets this kind of award.

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