The Problem Library Database uses information embedded in WeBWorK problems as comments. The comments can appear anywhere in the file, although typically they are inserted near the top or at the very bottom of the file.
## DBsubject('Calculus') ## DBchapter('Limits and Derivatives') ## DBsection('The Derivative as a Function') ## KEYWORDS('calculus', 'limits', 'derivatives') ## TitleText1('Calculus') ## EditionText1('5e') ## AuthorText1('Stewart') ## Section1('2.9') ## Problem1('22') ## Author('Jeff Holt') ## Institution('UVA')Each line is a tag. The structure of a tag must be:
## Tagname('tag value')starting at the first character of the line, one tag per line. The only exception is
Keywords
where a comma-separated list
of values is allowed.
DBsubject
, DBchapter
,
and DBsection
. These serve to place the problem in the
hierarchical
framework of the database. They are essentially a generic
textbook, chapter, and section for finding the problem.
By following the link to the hierarchical framework, you can see the values currently in use. If you are tagging problems which don't seem to fit any of the categories which already present, use values which seem appropriate, and then send the problems to John Jones as soon as you can so that the new values can be incorporated into the official listing linked to above.
Keywords
: a list of keywords to facilite searching.
Keywords themselves should not contain commas or quotation marks.
We maintain a list of all keywords currently in use. If you have a keyword which seems
to deserve a quotation mark, such as L'Hopital's rule
,
just omit the quotation marks so it becomes LHopitals rule
.
TitleText1
, EditionText1
,
AuthorText1
, Section1
,
and Problem1
. This is a cross-reference to particular
problem(s) in a textbook. The value of Problem1
can be
a space separated list of values, as in Problem1("2 3
4")
.
If you want to cross-reference a WeBWorK problem to more than one
text, then use TitleText1
etc. for the first
text, TitleText2
etc. for the second text, and so on.
In this way, a single .pg file can be cross-referenced to many texts.
Author
The name of the problem's author, if you are
certain of who wrote the problem.
Institution
The name of the institution where the
problem was written, but only if you are certain of where it was
written.
The work represented here was produced with partial support from a grant by the National Science Foundation (DUE-0340688).