Hybrid-Publishing

Hybrid Publishing

Two or more outputs

Two or more outputs (publications) from a single workflow, that branches out the end.

Updatable

Connection between source and outputs

Re-usability

Template based design.

With similar mechanics, but different templates - which results in different identities.

Hackers & Designers wiki

Small costs - large audiences

Publishing to a wide audience, under multiple formats, at small costs.

W3C Portable Web Publications for the Open Web Platform full convergence between online and offline/portable document publishing

Form producing meaning

Not specific to hybrid publishing. But as at least 2 outputs are produce the influence of form over meaning becomes more apparent.

(Beyond Social - Authors and Pages; Table of contents)

EPUB from Graduation works

Epub

• poor medium
• inconsistently rendered across readers
• lack of experimental, radical or utopian works or discourses

• readable and writable
• accessible: open-standards (HTML, CSS, Dublin Core metadata); Only requires a text-editor, and religious belief (to write it form scratch).
• a book space?

Hybrid Publishing - tools

• Structured text - HTML, Markdown, Mediawiki, styled docx
• Collaborative distributed tools - [Git http://git-scm.com/] / Mediawiki
• Document format converter - Pandoc
• Ebook viewer, manager, editor - Calibre
• CSS - for styling
• Custom made scripts: to gather and assemble content, transform the outputs programmatically, generate experimental outputs , ...

A quick Epub using Pandoc

• using Thematic-Making_It_Public page as content

Ingredients:

• 1 folder for project
• text file with wiki content
• images locally stored

Quick recipe: `pandoc --from mediawiki --to epub3 --self-contained --output=mybook.epub page.md`

Long recipe: `pandoc --from mediawiki --to epub3 --self-contained --epub-chapter-level=1 --epub-stylesheet=styles.epub.css --epub-cover-image=cover.jpg --epub-metadata=metadata.xml --toc-depth=1 --output=mybook.epub page.wiki`

• `--epub-chapter-level` - at what heading level will the chapter brakes occur
• `--toc-depth` - what heading level will be present in the Table of Contents

`ebook-viewer mybook.epub`