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  1. Oct 2022
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  4. Jun 2022
    1. B.C. Open Textbook Collection: Support Resources

      I'm leaving this link for now because we have no concrete plans to move these support resources to the new collection, and they are highly valuable.

  5. Nov 2021
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  7. opentextbc.ca opentextbc.ca
    1. Introduction to Polymers

      Missing licence. The page says CC BY-NC-SA, but it specifies that third-party materials are used with permission and are not subject to the licence. I don't know if this is why no licence is specified here?

    1. Open Pedagogy Examples

      The linked Google Doc is blank. A previous version can be restored that has actual content (see the version from October 14, 2020). Then I would suggest changing the permissions for this link from Editing to Suggesting or Viewing.

    1. Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action

      This book requires a log in to the Portland State University Pressbooks instance. Perhaps we should write to the author or open education contact at this institution to find out if this is purposeful.

  8. Aug 2021
    1. Navigate the textbook

      Krista mentioned that she spoke to a faculty member that found the Pressbooks interface to be a little confusing; they didn't know about the red Previous and Next arrows at the bottom of the screen. I wonder if we should include something about these arrows here when explaining how to navigate the textbook?

  9. May 2021
    1. Webbook Chapter and Part URLs

      Any thoughts on whether URLs should match the chapter or part title exactly, or whether a shorter URL is better? For instance, if a chapter in a history textbook is titled, "Fur Traders and Indigenous Relations during the 18th Century," would a better URL be "fur-traders-and-indigenous-relations-during-the-18th-century" or "fur-trade-18th-century"? Personally, I like the shorter URL better, but that does create extra work. Plus, there could be a chapter on a similar enough topic elsewhere in the book that a more complicated URL could be required elsewhere, so it's more subjective than just using the chapter title verbatim as the URL.

    2. media attributions

      We link to so many different sources for media attributions, including government and museum websites, that this piecemeal process seems inefficient. It might be easier to search for "Media Attributions" and manually add the code to each one.

    3. Canadian spelling

      I think that we need to agree to a spelling list that includes more than what's just in the COD. Individual books might have some differences (for example, if a book in a specific discipline chooses to capitalize a word that is normally lowercase because it is important to the discipline), but it would be nice to have a standard spelling list, more or less. I tend to use the one in the Appendix of the Self-Publishing Guide.

    1. headings

      This is a problem I've encountered many times, and every book seems to have a different way of treating textbox titles. So what should we do instead? Bold them?

    1. numbering systems

      I would also ask if numbered list HTML is used or if the author has manually numbered things like review exercises, which often happens when sublists use letters (a, b, c) because they don't know how to change the type of the numbered list.

  10. Apr 2021
    1. Production Process

      I kind of wish that sections were not collapsible, as having everything in front of me at once would give me a better sense of what the production process entails.