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ICE Workshop

A 2-part workshop to be held in association with Clever Collections: a national showcase of technical innovations for digital collections

Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at the University of Melbourne

The Integrated Content Environment (ICE) is a word processor based system that allows authors to work individually or collaboratively on material for the Web, CD and print. Developed at the University of Southern Queensland as an open source project it is builds on using standards and more sustainable methods of authoring using different word processors across multiple platforms. The current ICE for Research and Scholarship project (ICE-RS) is extending features in ICE to improve the process of conducting and reporting on research, with benefits in improved efficiency, greater usability of research outputs, and publication to research repositories for sustainability.

ICE Administrator workshop

Time: Morning session (3hrs)

This workshop will be demonstrating the requirements for system administrators and will provide an introduction into the following:

• Web server installation and setup
  • Basic Apache Web server configuration
  • Installing Subversion
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • The server side version of ICE
• ICE repository configuration
  • Make a Subversion repository ICE enabled
  • Customizing your ICE repository structure
  • Customizing the skin (look and feel)
• Publishing options
  • Institutional repositories
  • LMS (Learning management systems)

ICE user workshop

Time: Afternoon session (3hrs)

The user workshop will be a hands on session to demonstrate how to use the ICE application for authoring, this workshop be an introduction into the following:

• How to install ICE client side version
  • Using the ICE application
  • Application functionality
  • ICE packages
  • Collaborative authoring
  • Exporting/publishing
• The ICE word processor toolbar
• ICE templates
• Creating
• Modifying
• Extending ICE styles
• The Zotero template

Workshop requirements

System requirements

Those attending will need provide their own notebook with sufficient access to install software. The following operating systems will be supported in the workshop:

• Windows XP
• OS X (Intel and PowerPC)
• Ubuntu – limited support

It would be preferable if those attending were able to install all the required software and libraries before arriving. Details on what is required is to be provided closer to the start date as they will vary from the time that this document has been written.