ADAPTIVE CONTENT TECHNOLOGIES (ACT)

TextCentric’s ACT technologies are unique in the publishing industry. The ACT Adaptive Documents and Adaptive Books products are modeled on improving teaching, training and learning.

Adaptive Documents are geared to the business or organizational environment where official documents, manuals, regulatory briefs, safety, health, instructional and operational issues are important.

Adaptive Books are designed where learning and training are the key objectives, and the key content is an authority-based, core content publication(s).

Central to TextCentric’s ACT products are three critical, patented “content intelligence” functions:

- Adaptive Menus
- Dynamic Content Exchange
- Role-Based Profile Management

Inside Adaptive Documents, these content intelligence functions are the keys to more efficient and meaningful ways to communicate and store knowledge.
Inside Adaptive Books, these same functions mold together multiple content sources, multiple individuals by role, and preserve important text mark-ups, annotations, and links for the community of users.

Adaptive Menus (AM)
AM provides a range of flexibility in the presentation of text on a screen while protecting intellectual property. In all cases, the publisher content remains locked, but publishers, instructors, authors, and students can “re-arrange” the book’s makeup, including “changing” the table of contents. AM functions allow for customization of text presentation based on publisher defaults set for what can and cannot be done with the text.

Dynamic Resource Exchange (DRE)
DRE controls the range of interaction and sets the permission rules and parameters for what can or cannot be done to the publisher’s digital property. DRE regulates the interaction with the protected textual property per pre-set rules established by the publisher. In all cases, publisher content remains “locked,” but the rules of engagement determine how the text can or cannot be manipulated by end-users. For example, the smallest unit of change permissible may be a paragraph, a chapter, or a section, specified by the publisher.

Role-Based Profile Management (RBPM)
RBPM manages user profiles. TextCentric products can modify texts and add local content and interaction. On CD-ROM media, this process is controlled by client software that is loaded onto the user’s computer On a browser, the RBPM functionality is server based. User roles include that of instructor, author and student, and more roles can be added. The specific RBPM interacts with the DRE and AM to determine the range of interaction granted to each role.

TextCentric ACT products are developed in both client-side and server-side models.

• The client-side model uses fixed media (CD, DVD, Download) to house the central content while the Internet is used for exchanging profile information and linking to related resources.
   
  
• The server-side model houses content and interactions on the network and delivers to the client through a client browser.