Towards a hybrid workflow: editor, designer and developer UNITE!

By Becky Cachia, November 30, 2014

In the final showcase of the Digital Publishing Toolkit event in November 2014, Michael Murtaugh presented on behalf of the rest of the Institute of Network Cultures subgroup – that includes Joost Kircz, Silvio Lorusso, Miriam Rasch and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg – to answer the question: How can small edition, low budget publishing houses edit, design, [...]

Context Without Walls – a generative workflow with EPUBster (Digital Publishing Toolkit November 2014)

By Becky Cachia, November 30, 2014

The second showcase of the Digital Publishing Toolkit conference highlighted the collaborative work of the subgroup of Valiz, Meeus Ontwerpt and PUNTPIXEL: Context Without Walls – a generative workflow with EPUBster. The aim of the project was to create a digital (EPUB) version of Common Skin, a publication within the series Context Without Walls. This [...]

Collaborative workflows

By Andre Castro, November 25, 2014

During the Showcase of the Digital Publishing Toolkit Michael Murtaugh gave a presentation entitled Towards a hybrid workflow: editor, designer and developer UNITE!, that resonated strongly with my experience of creating The Volkskrant Building ebook by Boukje Cnossen and Sebastian Olma. In a previous blogpost I half-heartedly criticized the top-down dynamic experienced during the development [...]

Making the VolkskrantBuilding.epub

By Andre Castro, November 23, 2014

Last week The Institute of Network Cultures and Amsterdam Creative Industries Network launched the publication The Volkskrant Building: Manufacturing Difference in Amsterdam’s Creative City (TVB) by Boukje Cnossen and Sebastian Olma. I use this post to share the process that led to the production of its EPUB edition. From the onset it was clear that [...]

Building My Highlights

By Marc de Bruijn, November 19, 2014

This is a short overview of the process of building a proof-of-concept application. Requirements shifted during the development of the project which, combined with a lot of uncertainty regarding the datasources to be used, partly explains the technical exploratory process and the way the final proof-of-concept was developed. My Highlights was conceived as a mobile [...]

Developing EPUBster

By Marc de Bruijn, November 19, 2014

With EPUBster (for lack of a better name) we tried to develop a web application allowing publishers to edit and create EPUBs. We us the term ‘publisher’ very loosely in this instance, also referring to developers, designers or editors. EPUBster was partly developed for Amsterdam based publisher Valiz and designers Meeus Ontwerpt in order for [...]

How to Handle Corrections in a Hybrid Workflow

By Miriam Rasch, October 28, 2014

Read the introduction to Hybrid workflow how-to here. Corrections form a large part of the process of making a book, whether it is in print or electronic. Handling corrections posed one of the biggest challenges to the INC research team and the ideal solution is still not found. To start with the conclusions: Conclusion 1: [...]

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Hybrid workflow how-to: Making automated workflows, part 1

By Michael Murtaugh, October 21, 2014

The first post in this series can be found here: Hybrid workflow how-to: introduction & editorial steps As part of the INC subgroup, we have been developing a workflow that allows a flexible production of different kinds of electronic outputs like EPUB, PDF, and book trailers from a sample collection of essays from the recently [...]

Style Guide for Hybrid Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, October 21, 2014

The pursuit of hybrid publishing – aiming at different output formats, both print and electronic, for a single title – means reconsidering your workflow from the first step to the last. A well thought-through style guide is essential to make this transition to hybrid publishing efficient, time- and money-wise. The style guide is sent to [...]

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Hybrid workflow how-to: Making automated workflows, part 2

By Michael Murtaugh, October 21, 2014

As part of the INC subgroup, we have been developing a workflow that allows a flexible production of different kinds of electronic outputs like EPUB, PDF, and book trailers from a sample collection of essays from the recently published Society of the Query Reader. In part two of this tutorial, we create a shell script [...]