Technical Details
Three key factors enable the collaborative environment in Connexions:
- Copyright licenses that preserve attribution but permit sharing: Creative Commons "attribution" licenses
- Semantic markup of documents using XML (extensible markup language) so they can be searched for and combined. The markup language used is called “CNXML”.
- Workspaces that facilitate collaboration by providing shared space, the ability to version materials and derive content from existing modules.
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