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DynaGloss Integrates the Individual Dynasites Documents Dynasites preprocesses text before it is served to your browser, looking for words or phrases in "double quotes". When quoted words or phrases match terms defined in DynaGloss, the quoted text is replaced with a link to the corresponding definition in DynaGloss. All Dynasites pages are preprocessed, causing all quoted terms that are defined in DynaGloss to be displayed as links to their definitions. In this way, DynaGloss is integrated with all dynasites pages, and all Dynasites are integrated with the glossary.
For example, here is a link to the definition of "breakdowns" in Dynagloss. You can click on the link to go to its definition (but come back here!).
The link you just followed was created automatically by Dynasites (as opposed to being created explicitly by the auther of the page you are reading). The author of this page simply wrote "breakdowns" (that's the word, breakdowns, surrounded by double quotes) and dynasites turned it into a link before serving the text of this page to your browser.
So what? This linking capability makes creating links to definitions in DynaGloss very easy. For example, if there were a definition for "foobar" in Dynagloss, a link would appear instead of the quoted term. If indeed a link DID appear, then someone has defined the term in Dynagloss. If a link did NOT appear, and you want to see how this works, go to DynaGloss and create a definition for "foobar".
The page you are viewing was loaded 7/30/11; 8:33:27 PM. When this page is reloaded, all occurances of the term, "foobar", will be displayed as links. Try it out, and don't worry - you won't be ruining the opportunity for future users to define "foobar" - the DynaSites system automatically removes the definition periodically (an example of the dynamic nature of DynaSites information spaces)!
Quoted terms in Dynasites pages should be interpreted as terms begging definitions. Feel free to add a defintion for any such term you see in any Dynasites page. This is the central idea of Dynasites - to incrementally create shared understanding through evolvable information spaces!
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This page was built at 7/30/11; 8:33:27 PM by the DynaSites system. Please email any Comments or Suggestions. Thanks! Jonathan |
An L3D Project |