Outline for Sun Software Library User's Guide
Below is the proposed outline for a User's Guide for the Sun Software Library, written for the non-developer audience. This is a skeletal outline; many of the topics will be dealt with in more depth in the actual document.
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Outline for the Sun Software Library User's Guide
A. Using this Guide
B. Sun Software Library Overview
a. Publishers
b Software
c. Resources
d. Tags and Tag Clouds
C. Obtaining an ID for the Sun Software Library
D. Logging into Sun Software Library and Understanding General Settings
a. Understanding My Account
b. Understanding Preferences
E. Using MyLibrary
F. Querying the Sun Software Library for a Publisher, Software, Resource using Name or Description or ID
a. Guidelines for effective queries
b. Sorting Search Results
G. Form-Based Queries
H. Querying for Data Using Tags
I. Obtaining Detailed Content for a Specific Entity (Publisher, Software, or Resource)
J. Content Management
a. Granting the right to manage content
b. Obtaining the right to manage content
K. Inserting Data into the Sun Software Library
L. Creating a Publisher
a. Authority to create a publisher
M. Creating Software
a. Authority to create software
N. Creating Resources
a. Authority to create resouces
O. Creating Attributes
P. Creating Tags
Q. Adding Ratings and Reviews to an Entity
R. Bookmarkable URLs
S. Syndication and sharing
