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.
Interview with Ward Cunningham - inventor of the first wiki
Wiki - positive aspects
- anyone can become an editor
- all content is public
- revision system: keeping track of each page edit
- enforces semantic structure - making possible converting wiki pages to other formats: HTML, EPUB, ICML, etc
- API (Mediawiki) can request content from pages programmatically
Wiki - down sides
- a flat space, made only of pages and users
- how to create a structure?
- how to organize a workflow of authors, editors, proofreaders ?
- messy and difficult to read.
- necessity for alternative reading spaces
Reading spaces - Public manifestations
- Website http://beyond-social.org/
- Web-to-print paper Publication
- Authors - articles map
Glue scripts
Connecting editing and reading spaces with:
- Wiki API - fetches content from wiki
- Pandoc - convert wiki pages to HTML
- HTML templates - provide the structure and design for each page
- gluing scripts - interlink all these elements
Spin-offs
Master of Media Design & Communication - Graduation Catalog
- Website
- Print Catalog
Refugee Phrasebook
An open phrasebook for refugees
