About CIS DocWiki
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This CIS (community indicator system) document wiki (DocWiki) is a central authoring point for all collateral, best practices, recipes, explanatory material and other related documentation to the Citizen DAN framework and its related Winnipeg ('peg') version. At present, there are 354 articles on this wiki in 76 categories.
The general desire is for a document management system that allows:
- Authors to document in a single, canonical form
- Single source publishing: publish in multiple formats (HTML, PDF, doc, csv, RTF, XML, XHTML)
- Excellent version/revision control
- Collaboration support
- Mixing-and-matching of content from multiple pages and articles to re-purpose for different documents
- Multiple author support, and
- Separate theming of output products for different users, preferably using CSS.
This CIS DocWiki is premised and organized around the Method for Integrated Knowledge Environments (MIKE2.0) information management framework. MIKE2.0 provides a set structure, phasing, templates and content for describing and guiding new installations in how to set-up and manage various information management initiatives. Additional discussion for why this DocWiki makes sense is provided on the Rationale page.
MIKE2.0 is a generalized framework that encompasses a broad possible range of information management initiatives. In the case of this CIS DocWiki, we are only tapping into those portions of the MIKE2.0 methodology directly relevant to an open government offering for local communities. Still more precisely, the material herein is related to the specific approach to open government taken by Structured Dynamics LLC. We call this specific approach the Semantic Government Solution Offering, or SemGov. We are, in part, using this site to prepare the formal introduction of SemGov to MIKE2.0.
The basic introduction page (Welcome) to this DocWiki is organized into three main parts:
- Part 1 - About the Site, which provides the introductory and background material for this site
- Part 2 - The Structure, which is a detailed, phase-by-phase, step-by-step (activities and tasks) structuring of how to set-up, work with, and manage the CIS, and
- Part 3 - How-to Stuff, which describes how to work with the CIS DocWiki, wikis in general, and other supporting resources.
These parts are reflected in the panel structure on DocWiki's main Welcome page.
In developing and expanding your own DocWiki instance, you way want to look at other third party examples, such as the Fedora project.
DocWiki is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 3.0; see DocWiki:Copyrights.
