13: Contributing, Harvesting, and Curating Content
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- 13.1: Harvesting Workflows
- This page discusses the LibreTexts platform, which supports content development through five collaborative mechanisms that involve both students and faculty. It emphasizes a systematic vetting process to ensure high-quality, reliable content. Various workflows are described for content creation, whether starting from scratch, using existing online material, or importing from other formats.
- 13.2: A Harvesting Checklist
- This page offers a guide for transferring website content into the LibreTexts format, including steps like obtaining an instructor's account, using the Remixer tool, and creating a textbook structure. It covers content copying, addressing formatting issues, figure uploads, and converting equations to MathJax. Emphasis is placed on proper formatting with designated headings, and the final stage involves advanced editing for material refinement before publication.
- 13.3: More Advanced Typesetting Standards
- This page provides formatting guidelines for the Libretexts project, highlighting the importance of consistency in content presentation. Key instructions include specific heading usage, text justification, and preferred styles for lists and emphasis. It advises against indentation and underlining, instead advocating for bold or italics.
- 13.4: Contributing Existing Content (FAQ)
- This page outlines LibreTexts' offerings for authors, including a cost-free proposal process for new textbooks and a user-friendly platform for content contributions. Key features include attribution for authors, student engagement metrics, and support for content remixing while ensuring original authors are credited. To maintain quality, LibreTexts emphasizes curated oversight and is exploring long-term sustainability strategies to adapt to technological changes.
- 13.5: Dynamic Indexes
- This page explains the automatic generation of Front Matter and Back Matter when a book or course is added to the Download Center, including a dynamic index based on page meta-tags. An example from Wakim and Grewal's Human Biology text illustrates how terms are indexed according to their metadata, enabling multiple entries for each tag within the index.
- 13.6: Auto-Population of Page Key Terms (meta-tags)
- This page discusses the importance of populating the Dynamic Index for effective use. It can be populated either manually through a meta-tag approach or automatically with a tagging system. The success of the automatic tagger depends on the author's preparation of a spreadsheet in Excel or Google Docs.
- 13.7: Publishing Protocol
- This page provides a comprehensive overview of the book publishing process, covering essential steps such as creating a campus hub, moving the unpublished book to the hub, adjusting permissions, and using the Remixer tool for layout checks. It includes guidelines for formatting cover details, summarizing content—particularly for LibreNet members—and organizing front and back matter to ensure proper order and presentation before compilation.