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[Timothy Cook <timothywayne.cook@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeferson,

Thanks for your post.  My comments are inline.

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 14:42, Jeferson De Barros Nascimento
<jbnascimento@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am a student who is working on the project under the supervision of
> Luciana. I would like to clarify some points. I hope my English from
> Google Translator is understandable . ;)

I find that if the original poster of a message writes in their native
language, they can better put together their thoughts.  Each reader
that needs a translation can then more easily guess what the real
grammar should be and be able to understand the original intent.
Please post in Portuguese and we can translate it ourselves.


>
> I saw that long debated the idea of XMind is a free software (among
> other things ...), but the problem itself is the kind of file it gives
> us and how this file can be integrated into Plone without it's show
> static, as in the solution presented by Roger. The only way I found
> (with clickable maps) so far for handling mental maps of the form
> satisfactory in Plone 4 is using Freemind files (there is a plugin
> from Plone 3, but only works with files .mm as well).

First of all I am confused by why you are concerned with clickable
mindmaps in Plone.  I am quite certain that *I* never wrote anything
about that being a HKCR requirement.  A cute nicety maybe, but not a
functional part of what HKCR is intended to do.   Think of HKCR as the
Domain Name Service for CCDs.  The metadata of the CCDs should be
publishable through HKCR.net and all other instances of HKCR.
Probably as an RSS feed?

There is no reason to provide clickable mindmaps.  If someone reads
the description and other metadata about a CCD and they are
interested, then the original drafter should be able to setup a
workgroup for that CCD as well as being able to share the XMind file
(in total).


> XMind which until that moment I had no idea how
> to open. Searching, I saw that the .XMind is a .Zip file with some XML
> documents (content and style separate =/ ), some folders
> and attached to a thumbnail image, ie a complex organization and that
> I can not say from now if I can *translate* it to the standards XML
> files, but I'll work on it to see if something nice happens.
>

Well, this is where open collaboration accelerates progress in open
source projects.  I could have given you all these solutions in one
email; had you asked.

Also, I could have told you that there is a Python utility,
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mekk.xmind that can read and write XMind
files. HKCR doesn't need to write to them.  But this tool can be used
to read the metatdata and create a descriptive entry for each CCD.

> Anyway ... In this solution the big problem are the input files. If we
> could use the .Mm maps, that are exported in the XMind program, now we
> could say that the problem would be solved in point.

The "problems" are all solved.  We just need someone to put in the
time to create a useful and nice looking HKCR and incorporate the
mekk.xmind tool.

Please read any documents on HKCR and also take a look at this rough
functional diagram.  (see the link here:
http://www.mlhim.org/projects/hkcr )

Any other questions, please post them to the mailing list.

Regards,
Tim

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