Digital Pub lishing Collaborative Meeting Notes February 5 2015 Welcome amp Purpose The Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative A Harvard ABCD community dedicated to digital publishing This group was formed with ID: 284002
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Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative
Meeting Notes
February 5, 2015Slide2
Welcome & Purpose
The Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative
A Harvard ABCD community dedicated to digital publishing.
This group was formed with
a focus on how content is authored, produced, secured, and delivered across web- and device-based content platforms.
Topics
of interest include content and metadata creation/conversion tools and approaches; content authoring platforms, content management and production workflow processes and best practices; content format and metadata specifications; content security models; and content delivery channels and platforms. Slide3
Reminders
Harvard Digital Publishing Collaborative website
http://digitalpub.abcd.harvard.edu/
Meeting calendar / meeting notes / links
Flipboard
magazine of articles
Join the group officially to get on email listserv
http://www.abcd.harvard.edu/
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Today’s Topic:Production and Distribution
Options for Digital Publishing
Sanders
Kleinfeld
, Director of Publishing Technology, O’Reilly Media
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript aren't just for web developers anymore; as books go digital, web technology skills are becoming more and more essential to the publishing industry. In this session,
Sanders will discuss
how publishers can leverage the open-web technology stack to
build digital
-first publishing workflows, and transition their content development and production
toolchains
to web-native technologies.
Joshua
Tallent
, Chief eBook Architect, & Jenifer Lyman, Content Services Chief, Firebrand Technologies
Practical considerations and potential hurtles in
ebook
production and distribution.
Joshua will give you a survey of the various production-related tools that are currently available to publishers. This survey will include basic utilities that do one function or solve one problem, QA and validation tools, code editors, automated conversion tools, workflow enhancement tools, and full-fledged
CMSes
. In addition, Joshua will discuss some of the major differences between the more popular reading systems, including current support for EPUB 3, enhanced features, and common styling issues.
Jen will draw on her years of experience distributing
ebooks
on behalf of Firebrand's Content Services clients to review the complexities of distributing your
ebooks
out to your trading partners, such as conveying the proper territorial rights and prices to each partner and keeping each partner up to date on all of your file or metadata changes. She will also give an overview of the different types of retailers in the market – subscription vendors, libraries, international, etc.Slide5
Forthcoming Meetings
Thurs
4
/2
/15,
3-4:30pm
(Lamont Library Forum Room
)
Special session on Web Accessibility
Speaker: Peter
Bol
, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, Harvard University
Speaker: Richard
Schwerdtfeger
, CTO for Accessibility, IBM
Co-sponsored by the ABCD-WWW group
Thurs 6
/4
/15,
3-4:30pm
(Location
& Topic TBD
)