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Harvard Digital Publishing CollaborativeMeeting Notes 12/4/14========= link(s) to presentations listed belowSign up for membershipCheck out our Flipboard magazine: =========INTRO DECKDeck: DigPub_120414_meetingdeck.pdf===========DEMOS"Harvard's Online Learning Website"—Acacia Landfield, Digital Learning Project Manager; Michael Rutter, Director of Communications, Harvard Public Affairs & Communications?.Deck: Online_Learning_Portal_1214.pdfProvost decided to commission a site to make visible the many gateways for the public to gain access to digital learning resources (not just courses – it’s a broad set of learning objects).Goal of site is to be an aggregator, with an additional goal of driving folks not just to free but to revenue-generating, fee-based opportunities.Not all online offerings are through EdX – there are Canvas, proprietary platforms, SoundCloud, etc. Goal is to be platform-agnostic – whatever makes sense for the content.Want to get away from the word “course” –a learning object can be a 3-week object, a tool, itself. Not everything is the 13-week calendar item.Soft launch Sep 2014. Drupal back-end, responsive front-end done w/ Genuine Interactive (high marks).Using site as a benchmark for complying to accessibility best practices.Contact Acacia to submit content. Acacia_lanfield@harvard.edu ?."Digitization and Distribution Solution for Print Copyright Materials"—Carol Kentner, Digital Course Content Manager, Harvard Graduate School of Education?.Deck: Gutman iPac 1214.pdf“Gutman library iPaC Service”. Delivers a collection of course materials that are not available via other sources.Students can choose electronic access or print.Backend challenges. “iPac Knowledge Center” – FAQs for students. But behind the scenes need to manage permissions, etc. Migrating from iSites to Canvas is challenging in this regard.This is not really a content management system – redundancies of files across system/courses. It was never meant as a long-term solution. So looking for CMS that can handle efficient management of repository of files, w/ metadata, tagging, licensing. Suggestions ???Carol_kentner@gse.harvard.edu?“Harvard Business Review: New Website”—by Daigo Fujiwara, Web Developer, Harvard Business School Publishing.Deck: Newly-relaunched site. Daigo focused on the ability to focus content to “all your devices”. Responsive design.Instead of page-based designs, we need “design systems”They use Atomic Web Design – coined by Brad Frost. Atoms on web are HTML elements like tags, colors, fonts. Combine them to get molecules, and groups of molecules create organisms. Each level needs to be responsive on their own. You combine like legos to create templates/pages. Lab – the tool they use. Open source. After a production tool, it becomes a front-end style guide. Many companies make their style guides public. The benefits are that you can test responsiveness right on the browser, get feedback, improve workflow, share vocabulary, etc.Had a big challenge of how to set all these tools up together on everyone’s different machine configs – ended up setting up a Virtual Machine.Bonus: Google’s “mobile-friendly” sites are now labeled in search results.For more see: Daigo.fujiwara@ "The Dataverse Network and the Public Knowledge Project: Data Sharing and Preservation in the Journal Publication Process"—Eleni Castro, Research Coordinator, Faculty of Arts & Sciences.Deck: Dataverse 1214.pdfLooking to integrate data set publishing workflow with journal workflow. Makes it easier for researchers to collate everything in one place.What does Dataverse do? Develop an open source software application that is a repository for data set. researchers deposit data sets associated with articles (and doesn’t have to just be Harvard researchers). About 830 dataverses exist w/ over 1.1 million downloads.And provides a persistent identifier to all of these – allows for a data citation for others to use.Want to reduce rate of non-compliance that occurs with journal data availability more widely. Open Journal Systems project – creates open source tools for publishing. More here: Dataverse has integrated with them so that datasets associated with articles can be submitted to editors, etc, at the same time that the article is submitted via open journals. Piloting w/ 50 journals. – expanding API to connect to other publishers. Dataverse community meeting: June 9-11.?“HBSP’s Online Catalog of Digital Content: What’s In There, Who Uses It, & How Is EPUB Format Being Used Thus Far?”?—William Reilly, Technical Business Analyst, Harvard Business School Publishing.Harvard Business School > Harvard Business Publishing > Higher Education unitA look inside our Catalog at our Educator’s website () Cases (traditional, multimedia), Harvard Business Review articles; eLearning (simulations, courses, online exercises); Core Curriculum readings.Lots of formats, including now ePub. Still do ship hardcopy. And content is in several languages.Our Educator’s site is really geared to registered users. Set of roles, both for B2C customers (faculty who order content for schools) and B2B (program admins).We provide community via blog/forum, ratings & reviews – more to come.Content – traditional business ‘case study’ was in PDF, now also add re-flowable ePub format.Detailed landscape diagrams both for HBP as a content provider and also the content consumers (where iOS app and LMS integration are new channels for HBP).Denis added: our integrations are based when possible on Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI). Same protocol uses as basis for Canvas environment at Harvard () We store everything in an Alfresco-based content management system (‘product inventory management’ system). Use Endeca for metadata.Also showed Digital Rights Management (DRM) that is put on PDFs. “Developing a Content Management Strategy”—Sue Brown, Production Director; John Brigham, Project Editor, Digital Content Development; both from Macmillan Higher Education.Deck: Macmillan 1214.pdfMacmillan is a textbook pubisher. Higher Ed group has 4 imprints.But not just textbooks – there are complementary media products. But 77% of their students are buying ‘print’ – but media is growing very fast.The challenge is workflow-based. Production workflow was Word > InDesign > Textbook. Now add in fork from ID to go to XML and then HTML, ePub.Future state – idea of a central content management system that can then be transformed out into multiple formats. Very clued into Accessibility – trying to add that into content structure.Also rights/permissions – hogtied by 3rd party content that can be tied up here.Sue and John developing a new team to focus on:Content structure – global styles, transition to DITATech improvements – centralized CMS, conforming to industry standardsProcess changes – communication among groups, holistic approach to content lifecycle.Denis note: we’re lining up some potential accessibility guests for the future, including Benetech’s Bookshare program () and also CAST (). Denis note: also in the future could discuss content development workflow – processes like Agile, tools like Jira, etc. “The Digital Loeb Classical Library”—Tim Jones, Director of Design and Production; Adriana Cloud, Production Project Manager; Emily Arkin, Sr. Editor for Digital Production. All from Harvard University PressLoeb Classical library – 100 years old, greek/latin translations. Talked years ago about turning this into a digital library.Very challenging – much of the content had to be keyed in for first time.Site went live a few months ago: HYPERLINK "" : XML in TIE format. It’s built on PubFactory, now owned by Safari Books Online.Huge innovation – can search all volumes. Free text, by author, etc.Built innovative tools like being able to choose how to render greek/latin vs. English, both, etc.Also annotation, sharing, bookmarks, etc.Subscription-based for perpetual access (part of the mission to fund Loeb foundation, who give out millions annually to fund classics research). But then pay options to see full content, etc. (but Harvard folks have full access). Already exceeded year 1 budget projections in 6-weeks.Pros/cons w/ Pubfactory. Highly-customized. Good relationship with them. ===========NEXT MEETING2/5/2015?3:00pm?to?4:30pm, Lamont Library Forum RoomScheduled speakers:Sanders Kleinfeld, Director of Publishing Technology, O’Reilly MediaHTML, CSS, and JavaScript aren't just for web developers anymore; as books go digital, web technology skills are becoming more and more essential to the publishing industry. In this session, I'll discuss how publishers can leverage the open-web technology stack to builddigital-first publishing workflows, and transition their content development and production toolchains to web-native technologies.Joshua Tallent, Chief eBook Architect, & Jenifer Lyman, Content Services Chief, Firebrand TechnologiesPractical considerations and potential hurtles in ebook production and distribution.Joshua will give you a survey of the various production-related tools that are currently available to publishers. This survey will include basic utilities that do one function or solve one problem, QA and validation tools, code editors, automated conversion tools, workflow enhancement tools, and full-fledged CMSes. In addition, Joshua will discuss some of the major differences between the more popular reading systems, including current support for EPUB 3, enhanced features, and common styling issues.?Jen will draw on her years of experience distributing ebooks on behalf of Firebrand's Content Services clients to review the complexities of distributing your ebooks out to your trading partners, such as conveying the proper territorial rights and prices to each partner and keeping each partner up to date on all of your file or metadata changes.? She will also give an overview of the different types of retailers in the market – subscription vendors, libraries, international, etc. ................
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