The corner stone of a language development environment is an editor. For programming languages, several code editors are readily available to be integrated in Web applications. However, only few editors exist for diagrammatic languages. Eshu is an extensible diagram editor, embeddable in Web applications that require diagram interaction, such as modeling tools or e-learning environments. Eshu is a JavaScript library with an API that supports its integration with other components, including importing/exporting diagrams in JSON. Eshu was already integrated in a pedagogical environment with automated diagram assessment, configured for extended entity-relationship diagrams, that served as basis for an usability evaluation.
@InProceedings{leal_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2016.12, author = {Leal, Jos\'{e} Paulo and Correia, Helder and Paiva, Jos\'{e} Carlos}, title = {{Eshu: An Extensible Web Editor for Diagrammatic Languages}}, booktitle = {5th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE'16)}, pages = {12:1--12:13}, series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-006-4}, ISSN = {2190-6807}, year = {2016}, volume = {51}, editor = {Mernik, Marjan and Leal, Jos\'{e} Paulo and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.12}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-60178}, doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2016.12}, annote = {Keywords: Diagram assessment, language environments, automated assessment, e-learning} }
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