Courses/Hybrid Publishing
PROPOSAL
Course Description
Title
Hybrid Publishing
Instructor
André Castro
other possible instructors
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Station
Publication Station
About
Based on the experience gained from developing the Beyond Social publishing structure around a wiki, with a website and printable PDFs as outputs, this course will introduce participants to the concept of hybrid publishing, its tools, and encourage them to explore it in different contexts.
Fundamentally, any process that makes public two or more instances of the same content, under different forms, can be described as a hybrid publishing workflow. Outputs can take the form of a website, a fanzine, a book, an ebook, an animated gif, a sound piece or a video, yet they all derive from the same workflow, instead of isolated efforts. It is also essential that both content and its public manifestations are interlinked, so that changes in content can propagate to the its outputs. From this situation a new dynamic can emerge, where the publication's design does not need to wait for the content to be finalized, but both processes can develop at the same time, promoting a dialogue between content and form.
To achieve such goals an array of tools such as Wikis (online environment for collaborative editing), Markup languages (HTML, Markdown and wiki syntax), Git (distributed versioning system), Pandoc (document converter), CSS (styling for web and print), can be employed and adapted to creation of specific publishing workflows, which best suit content and outputs.
Participants will become acquainted to these tools and will explore them through simple exercises (e.g. transforming a MSWord document onto to an EPUB; or creating a nice looking PDF from a webpage), which will aid them in building hybrid publishing workflows.
Planning
- length: 1 kwartaal
- sessions per week: 1 session per week
- duration of each session: 3 hours
Course Goals
Previous Publication Station's courses on hybrid publishing
- Courses/Hybrid_publishing_resources
- Courses/Wikis-Publishing_Platforms
- Courses/Web_to_Print - research; not a course
For whom
Anyone interested in the potentialities publishing and willing to challenge its limitation. Participants should be familiar with HTML and CSS.
