publishing in the cloud: chances and challenges
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Publishing in the Cloud: Chances and Challenges
Production: Structure/edit/enrich/manage/publish
Variety of standards Variety of products Variety of styles Variety of files Variety of software programmes Variety of complexity Variety of data management systems
Variety of products Variety of platforms Variety of xml output
Where we are
• Books work with InCopy
• Assessing current fasttrack journals (TAT: 9 days )
• Assessing solutions with current workflow and tools
• Assessing new systems and tools
Word file
ContentFirst 1. Word only until final approval by authors/editors 2. Treat display (InDesign/3B2) as one of many final deliveries
“… what we have today are content management systems that force us to think about content management + authoring and content publishing + display as the same thing.”
Karen McGrane
Don’t bind content to display
DS Willis
Manage content and display Manage perception of content and display
A B C
A B C
1 2 3
How many resources can work within the tool?
How many workflow steps?
How many content authoring and management systems? How do they feed into Web Publishing Tools?
Which resources?
Journal A
How many products/styles? Journal B
Book C
Book D
Online encyclopaedia E
Archive F
1 2 3
How many stakeholders (Authors/Editors; Editorial; Production in-house; External Production ; IT/Design Developers
Copy-editors
Author/editor
95% docx submissions 5% LaTeX and other
Supplier Content Management Systems
Online Content Repository
HighWire xml
Raw copy
Structuring
Copyediting
Revision
Approve
Publish
Typesetting
Production Editors
PE
Typesetters
Copyedit check
TS
CE
CMS
PE
CE
TS CMS
CMS
CMS
CMS TS
PE
AU/ ED
online
AU/ ED
PE
TS
AU/ ED
Online Content Repository
HighWire
CMS
CMS
Supplier Content Management Systems
Editorial Manager
Copy-editors
Author/editor
95% docx submissions 5% LaTeX and other
Supplier Content Management System
Online Content Repository
HighWire
xml
Raw copy
Structuring=typesetting
Copyediting
Revision
xml
Publish
Production Editors
PE
Typesetters
QC check
TS
CE
Editorial Manager
CMS
PE
CE
TS CMS
CMS
AU/ ED
online
Repurposed content
TV/radio
SaaS/tool
AU/ ED
PE
TS
AU/ ED xml
Online Content Repository
HighWire
???????
xml
xml
display
Data mining
SaaS/tool
SaaS/tool
CMS
SaaS/tool
Publishers in the cloud
RSuite
RSuite
PXE Aptara
DigiCore MPS
Dictera Hurix
EasyPress
CWP Cenveo
Drupal
Joomla
WordPress
Advantages: •Free •Open source •Doesn’t disappear like proprietary systems •No emails or attachments •Scalable •Fast •Also works as content management system •Streamlined production process Disadvantages: •Reliant on Internet •Customizing requires investment •User training http://river-valley.tv/using-wordpress-as-an-editorial-
production-system
http://river-valley.tv/tag/marcia-merryman-means/
Pro Con
Speed to publication
More control by
author/editor
More control by
author/editor
Less keying/intake errors Version control
Technical out-house support
Less in-house IT
Rigid
Not secure
Not compatible with in-
house and supplier CMS,
and display applications
Cost effective Business models widely
vary due to short exposure
to market
Quark Copydesk
Adobe InCopy
Rivervalley
PXE (Aptara)
Book Publishing In The Cloud EasyPress
Collaborative Web Proofing (CWP), Cenveo
DigiCore (MPS)
Dictera (Hurix)
Rsuite, RSI Content Solutions
Drupal
WordPress
ExpressionEngine
Further reading
Texts
Mark Boulton , Adaptive Content Management, 19/10/2012, http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal
Dan Willis, Make it semantic from the start, http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journalDan Willis
The Idea Logica Company, Publishing in the Cloud is the next big important subject,
http://www.idealog.com/blog/publishing-in-the-cloud-is-the-next-big-important-subject/
Seminars http://www.publisherslaunch.com/2012-2013/launch-new-york/presentations/
Tools Quark Copydesk
Adobe InCopy
Rivervalley
PXE (Aptara)
Book Publishing In The Cloud EasyPress
Collaborative Web Proofing (CWP), Cenveo
DigiCore (MPS)
Dictera (Hurix)
Rsuite, RSI Content Solutions
Drupal
WordPress
ExpressionEngine
“Boil, Reduce, Simmer” Brendan Dawes