A reading device with some character and soul please

By haroldkonickx, October 14, 2014

Working in the field of digital media, designer and HVA lecturer Frank Kloos regretfully admits his love for physical books. Nevertheless he fantasizes about a reading device that is as good as or maybe even better than the real thing. Frank Kloos on digital publishing: ‘Vooralsnog vind ik tablets karakterloos.’ from network cultures on Vimeo.

EPUB Trailers

By Michael Murtaugh, October 13, 2014

Results from the epubtrailer.py script that converts EPUB files into GIF-format book trailers. The script was originally written by Silvio Lorusso during the Public Library hackathon, and is released as part of the results from the work of the INC subgroup. Here the script is applied to a selection of illustrated public domain EPUB’s available [...]

Markdown to Indesign with Pandoc (via ICML)

By Silvio Lorusso, October 8, 2014

As part of the hybrid workflow for the Institute of Network Cultures developed by the INC subgroup, I started a collaboration with Italian graphic designer Roberto Arista in order to write and collect scripts that facilitate the process of importing HTML into InDesign. This set of scripts pre-processes HTML files, preserving such entities like headers, [...]

Hybrid workflow how-to: introduction & editorial steps

By Miriam Rasch, October 7, 2014

The hybrid workflow described below is developed by the Institute of Network Cultures within the Digital Publishing Toolkit. The research into this workflow was aimed at making the transition from a print-centered publication process towards a digital and print (hybrid) publication process. We ask the question: how to handle documents so publication on different platforms [...]

Florian Cramer on “The Art of Hybrid Publishing”

By margreet riphagen, October 1, 2014

Source: Hybrid Publishing Lab Julia Rehfeldt — September 29, 2014 — Leave a comment Florian Cramer is an applied research professor and director of Creating 010, the research centre affiliated to Willem de Kooning Academy and Piet Zwart Institute at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. He also works for WORM, a Rotterdam-based venue [...]

make book

By Michael Murtaugh, October 1, 2014

Make is a popular free software tool that helps programmers compile their code into programs. Increasingly the tool is finding new uses in publishing workflows to compile prose text into electronic formats like epub and PDF. The INC subgroup has been using make in their hybrid workflow to produce multiple formats of the Society of [...]

Changing work patterns in electronic publications in the arts and...

From print to what?

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, September 25, 2014

Changing work patterns in electronic publications in the arts and design sector_by Joost Kircz The Toolkit project aims to assist smaller publishers in the art and design sector to make their first steps in producing their books and periodical through digital means. This aim turns out to demand a fairly complicated road to final success. [...]

Save the date, Showcases Digital Publishing Toolkit, 28th of November 2014

By margreet riphagen, September 22, 2014

Het Instituut voor Netwerkcultuur presenteert: Het ABC van Digitaal Publiceren_ op 28 november 2014 | 13.30 – 17.30 | Floor, Kohnstammhuis, Wibautstraat 2-4, Amsterdam

INC project update: Hybrid Publishing Workflow test

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, September 17, 2014

On the 12th of September the Institute of Network Cultures subgroup organized a meeting to test the initial results of their research. Their project focuses on optimalising the publishing workflow for print and electronic publications – developing a “hybrid publishing workflow” that will make it easier and more sufficient to publish for several platforms and [...]

For the further development of its electronic publication strategy –...

Wanted: intern with interest in e-books and digital publishing

By Miriam Rasch, September 4, 2014

For the further development of its electronic publication strategy – combining digital and print books and other media – the Institute of Network Cultures is looking for an Intern with a strong interest in digital publishing 3-6 months, 4 days a week, starting January 2015 You will be producing international publications in the field of [...]