Sophie has been enhanced and rewritten in Java. Find user documentation, sample books and tutorials, and download the new Sophie. Sophie runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
- Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training.
- Sophie Reader allows readers to read Sophie books in a browser without downloading a separate application.
- Comment frames allow easily constructed spaces for discussion inside of books.
- Browser frames allow embedding fully functional web browsers in book pages.
- Sophie can import, embed, and export PDF files.
- Easy to use embedded books: Sophie books can open inside other Sophie books.
- Frame-based timelines present an easy way to create animations.
- Sophie Server allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server.
- Sophie Server allows simultaneous collaborative creation of books.
If you are attending the 2010 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting, January 19-21, in Austin, Texas, come find out more about Sophie 2.0 as Susan Metros and Holly Willis present a talk and demonstration titled "Reimagining the Book: A Multimedia Authoring Tool Named Sophie" on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sophie 2.0 was recently featured as one of ten projects destined to impact next generation arts journalism by the National Summit on Arts Journalism, presented by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Endowment for the Arts. Read more on the National Arts Journalism Program site. http://www.najp.org/summit
The Institute for Multimedia Literacy within the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California is seeking project proposals for exemplary Sophie 2.0 projects to be produced in collaborations between scholars and IML staff. If you have a project that would benefit from the unique compositional affordances of Sophie, and you wouldn’t mind having these become showcase projects on the Sophie 2.0 Web site, please contact Holly Willis. Include a project description and explain why Sophie 2.0 would enhance the project. hwillis@cinema.usc.edu
Sophie Developers
Learn more about developing with Sophie 2.0. Download source and find the project overview, developer documentation, and issue log.
