Generating custom search engines and annotatable, mindmap based navigation surfaces from Open University, XML structured course materials

1. Making More of
Structured Documents:
From Custom Search Engines to Custom Navigation
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems,
The Open University

2. Know Your
Search Limits
site:open.ac.uk
filetype:pdf

9. So how do we get the links?

12. BUT…

13. …the index is typically too small to be
of much interest

14. examples

15. LiveLinks…

19. Search Engine Text Adventures

23. What’s
missing…?

24. … search-based
pedagogy…?

26. OU-XML lets
you treat SA
documents as
databases…

28. [ Freemind ]

32. blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia