Thematic-Making It Public/publication workshop

Goal: hands-on work session to help develop the publication. We'll work towards getting everyone to integrate their contribution in the publication and see the result from his/her contribution right away.

State of matter

Where are we with the publication:

roles & tasks

• • Natalya: content transformations from videos onto still images ( pixel scan) + code snipets
  • Pleun: design
  • Colm: gathering and preface
  • Samira: write, editor
  • Nadine: coordinator
  • Max: translation onto code
  • Stone: content translation
  • Julia: reflective text (TBA)
  • Sara:

==content== What content will make it to the book?

structure

What is the structure of the book? thinking through its organization

generative & interactivity

"""Will the book contain generative or interactivity elements?""" If so, which and why?

Resources

git repository

https://github.com/pietzwart/making-it-public

.
├── book
│   ├── ashes.epub
│   ├── assets
│   │   ├── epubcover.jpg
│   │   ├── jquery-1.11.3.min.js
│   │   ├── jquery-1.7.0.min.js
│   │   ├── jquery-1.7.0.min.txt
│   │   ├── jquery.js
│   │   ├── script.js
│   │   └── script.txt
│   ├── chapter1.html
│   ├── epubcover.jpg
│   ├── generatebook.sh
│   ├── meta.xml
│   ├── mybook.epub
│   ├── _old
│   │   └── report.html
│   ├── report1.html
│   ├── report.html
│   ├── styles.css
│   └── title.html
├── Index_Sketch.ai
├── intro.md
├── Makingitpublic-report - Media Design- Networked & Lens-Based wiki.pdf
├── README.md
├── report.html
├── report.wiki
├── scans
│   ├── OCR
│   │   ├── archivingbooklet.jpg
│   │   ├── MER_3586.pdf
│   │   └── scanepud.rtf
│   └── wordexchange
│       ├── index.html
│       └── script.js
├── Screen Shot 2016-01-28 at 3.28.22 AM.png
└── test-mip
    ├── iTunesMetadata.plist
    ├── META-INF
    │   ├── com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml
    │   └── container.xml
    ├── mimetype
    └── OEBPS
        ├── cover.xhtml
        ├── css
        │   └── style.css
        ├── images
        │   ├── book_cover.jpg
        │   ├── img_p01.jpg
        │   ├── img_p02.jpg
        │   ├── img_p03.jpg
        │   ├── img_p04.jpg
        │   └── img_p05.jpg
        ├── p01.html
        ├── p02.html
        ├── package.opf
        ├── report.html
        └── toc.xhtml
11 directories, 47 files

Sofware

• ebook reader:
  • Calibre - http://calibre-ebook.com/ (Calibre is also useful as an

EPUB editor)

• • Readium - (optional) - http://readium.org/ - plugin for the

Chrome/Chromium browser that aims to be "a reference system for rendering EPUB 3 publications".

• • ibooks (if you have Mac)
• Pandoc - Markup (file) converter http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html
• Git
  • (Mac) git is included in [Xcode https://developer.apple.com/xcode/download/], so install XCode.
  • Linux- download the package using the package repository
• Github
  • Create an account on Github https://github.com/ (we might move away

from github, but right now the repository is there)

• epub validator
  • online http://validator.idpf.org/
  • program epubcheck

Git

• current repository

• a new repository, based on Hybrid Publishing Resources structure

Hybrid Publishing Resources

• contribute, integrate, make

Future dev

• what will be done by Open day?
• wish-list
• plan