Beyond-Social-HP

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How to put Hybrid Publishing into practice?

With the Beyond Social project...

Beyond Social requirements

• online publication
• constant work-in-progress
• contributions from outside WdKA
• web and paper publication

Wiki - editing space

A web applications dedicated to collaborative content creation.

http://beyond-social.org/wiki

Interview with Ward Cunningham - inventor of the first wiki

Wiki - positive aspects

• anyone can become an editor
• all content is public
• revision system: keeps track of each edit
• enforces semantic structure. Making possible converting wiki pages to other formats: HTML, EPUB, ICML, etc
• API can request wiki pages's content and metadata programmatically

Wiki - down sides

• a flat space, made only of pages and users
  • how to organize a publication in this space
  • what structures to adopt?
  • how to organize a workflow of authors, editors and proofreaders ?
• messy and difficult to read.
  • necessity for alternative reading spaces

Reading spaces - publications

• Website http://beyond-social.org/
• Web-to-print paper publication
• Authors - articles map

Glue

Connecting editing and reading spaces with:

• Wiki API - fetches content from wiki
• Pandoc - converts wiki pages to HTML
• HTML templates - provide the structure and design for each page
• glue scripts - interlink all these elements

MA Media Design & Communication - Graduation Catalog

• Website
• Print Catalog

Refugee Phrasebook

An open phrasebook for refugees

http://refugeephrasebook.de/