{"id":469023,"date":"2008-09-22T17:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/segue.middlebury.edu\/view\/html\/node\/469023"},"modified":"2013-09-21T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T17:19:38","slug":"about-segue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"About Segue"},"content":{"rendered":"
Segue is no longer being actively developed. \u00a0For more information, see:
\nSegue from Segue<\/a><\/br><\/br><\/div>\n

Segue was an innovative\u00a0content management system that won a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration in 2007 \u00a0from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. \u00a0It was the primary learning management system used at Middlebury College from 2002 to 2011.<\/p>\n

Synthesis of Wikis and Blogs<\/h3>\n

Segue was a curricular content management system designed for teaching, learning and research.\u00a0 It was essentially a synthesis of wikis, blogs and traditional content management systems.\u00a0 Segue borrowed from the blogosphere the notion of multiple entries or posts on a page, each with their own URL and attached comments.\u00a0 Segue then provided a version history of each post and allows users to link between posts using “wiki” markup.\u00a0 When a “wiki link” was created to content that did not exist, a “create node” link was displayed that allowed users to add that content.\u00a0 Finally, like many content management systems, Segue allowed users to organize their sites hierarchically and control access by specifying who can discuss, edit or delete any existing content as well as who can add new content.<\/p>\n

Versioned Microcontent<\/h3>\n

Segue was designed for collaboration, its very granular access control enabled Segue to be used to manage individual and group blogs, wikis, courses, e-portfolios, peer review, portals, research collaboration and personal repositories.\u00a0 Central to Segue was the notion of “versioned microcontent”, of many individual content blocks on a page, each with their own URL, RSS feed and version history.\u00a0 These content blocks could be sorted in a various ways including reverse chronological or completely custom ordering.\u00a0 As well, these content blocks could be organized hierarchically (i.e. top-down) through sets of navigation links and associatively (i.e. bottom-up) by means of tags and tag aggregation.<\/p>\n

Open Knowledge Initiative<\/h3>\n

The first version of the Segue codebase evolved organically based on feedback from users, primarily faculty and students at Middlebury College. \u00a0Segue v2 introduced a completely new codebase that was\u00a0fully object-oriented for more robust, manageable code and was built using an\u00a0application framework known as\u00a0Harmoni<\/a>. \u00a0Harmoni\u00a0implemented of the\u00a0Open Knowledge Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(O.K.I.) open service interface definitions (OSID) that were being developed at MIT.<\/p>\n

The vision of O.K.I. was the creation of educational platforms that would be build using service-oriented architectures (SOA) that could interoperate with other platforms by exposing their functionality as services based on open standards.\u00a0 The hope was that this would enable platforms like Segue to interoperate with other curricular systems such as\u00a0Sakai<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Moodle<\/a>\u00a0that at that time were also planning to use these same standards in future releases.<\/p>\n

Segue v2 also had an innovative content rendering engine, that allows users to control the layout and flow of content on their site through a drag and drop user interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Segue is no longer being actively developed. \u00a0For more information, see: Segue from Segue Segue was an innovative\u00a0content management system that won a Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration in 2007 \u00a0from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. \u00a0It was the primary learning… More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-469023","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469023"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200001472277,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/469023\/revisions\/200001472277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/segue-documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}