Adam Hyde: Books Are Evil, or: Towards a collaborative production model of books using free software

By patricia, May 27, 2014

“Books are Evil” is the provocative title of Adam Hyde’s talk in the session on Workflows, Tools and Platforms. For many years Hyde worked as a digital media artist, however, after coming back from an art residency in Antarctica he decided to quit the art world and focus his career on the design and development [...]

Florian Cramer: Electronic publishing in the arts – what works and what doesn’t

By Andre Castro, May 27, 2014

Florian Cramer announced the soon-to-be-released Digital Publishing Toolkit – the results of a two year project with publishers and designers that taps into their practical experiences and difficulties in developing a number of pilot e-book projects. It furthermore addresses ways in which publishers can change their internal ways of working so that releasing one publication [...]

Elizabeth Castro: CatalanTalk – Publishing multilingual interviews, from Twitter to ebooks to paper

By Andre Castro, May 27, 2014

Elizabeth Castro kicked off the second session of the conference by introducing herself as a computer book writer. She is the author of several guides on how to create webpages and epubs by working with tools like HTML, XML, InDesign and CSS. In this talk, however, Castro showed how she applies this know-how to a [...]

Thomas van Aalten is a critically acclaimed Dutch writer and...

Thomas van Aalten: ‘Het evangelie van de nulletjes en eentjes is niet zaligmakend’

By haroldkonickx, May 21, 2014

Thomas van Aalten is a critically acclaimed Dutch writer and teacher at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. In this interview he answers questions on digitalization. He thoughtfully formulates his views on topics like reading culture, sales of e-books and a so called ‘Spotify for books’. Van Aalten believes that literature and the printed book are not [...]

Importing HTML into InDesign (via XML)

By Silvio Lorusso, May 15, 2014

As part of the INC subgroup research, we are looking into hybrid workflows that employ Markdown/HTML. While Markdown remains the source, it is also used to generate HTML files that form the EPUB files. Generally, the source files for InDesign are Word files. In the new workflow Word files are not central anymore, instead they [...]

Miriam Rasch: ‘E-books kunnen de leeservaring naar een ander niveau tillen’

By haroldkonickx, May 14, 2014

Miriam Rasch is one of the speakers at the Off the Press conference. She works at the Institute of Networkcultures and teaches at the school for media and communation (MIC) of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Furthermore she is a passionate reader and literary critic. Starting off with Barbara Hui’s online mapping of W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn [...]

Vasilis van Gemert: ‘Over 100 jaar kunnen we nog HTML lezen’

By haroldkonickx, May 7, 2014

Developer and Designer of the Amsterdam Design School for Multimedia (CMD) makes a passionate plea for publishing on the web (in Dutch). ‘Over honderd jaar kunnen we nog HTML lezen’; Vasilis van Gemert over digitaal publiceren from network cultures on Vimeo.

During the recent Digitial Publishing Toolkit hackathon, the proposal, made...

Mark me up, Mark me down!

By Michael Murtaugh, April 30, 2014

During the recent Digitial Publishing Toolkit hackathon, the proposal, made in the context of the INC project, for a using a browser-based editing workflow centered on HTML as the core “document” format was challenged in a discussion initiated by Florian Cramer who proposed focusing instead on the Markdown format. The resulting spirited discussion began focussed [...]

DPT Hackathon Results

By Michael Murtaugh, April 30, 2014

Thursday and Friday April 24 & 25 a hackathon took place at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Over the course of 2 days, some of the developers of the Digital Publishing Toolkit initiative gathered to work on their projects and to share experiences, code and tools and discuss the (devil-is-in-the) details of developing for [...]

You can find the program booklet below. Check out the...

Program booklet

By vince, April 14, 2014

You can find the program booklet below. Check out the conference program, sessions descriptions and workshops. Then, be sure to book your ticket for the conference here. #Conference Content Thursday 22 May @Museum Boijmans van Beuningen p. X 09:30 – 10:00 doors open p. X 10:00 – 11:00 session 1: Today’s Book Publishing p. X 11.00 – 13:00 session 2: One Thousand and One Publishing Workflows, Tools, and Platforms p. X 13:00 – 14:00 lunch break p. X 14:00 – 15:00 session 3: Introducing the Digital Publishing Toolkit p. X 15:00 – 15:30 tea break p. X 15:30 – 17:00 session 4: Showcases Thursday 22 May @WORM p. X 20:00 – 22:00 ‘Digital Arts & Crafts in the Field of Publishing’ curated by Silvio Lorusso Friday 23 May @WORM p. X 09:30 – 10:00 doors open p. X 10:00 – 14:30 workshop: Paper to Code: Transforming the Future of Reading p. X 10:00 – 14:30 workshop: Electronic Publishing Workflows: (Multi)Markdown & Pandoc p. X 10:00 – 14:30 workshop: Superglue: Reshaping the web? p. X 14:30 – 15:00 tea break p. X 15:00 – 16:30 session 5: Underground e-Publishing p. X 16:30 – 17:30 bazaar and drinks /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////