A brief presentation on the primary characteristics of web books; the reasons they may offer a positive future solution for digital publishing in museums specifically; and some tools and examples already out there. This talk was first given at the National Museum Publishing Seminar, June 12–14, 2014, as part of the panel "Digital Publishing 101: The Complete Picture from EPUB to App". A comparative chart on the many digital publishing formats and resources discussed in the panel, can be found at http:bit.ly/digpub101.
17. The web offers a dynamic, universal,
and open publishing ecosystem for digital books
18. The web offers a dynamic, universal,
and open publishing ecosystem for digital books
1. You can do amazing things with it
19. The web offers a dynamic, universal,
and open publishing ecosystem for digital books
1. You can do amazing things with it
2. It’s connected to everything
20. The web offers a dynamic, universal,
and open publishing ecosystem for digital books
1. You can do amazing things with it
2. It’s connected to everything
3. There’s porn
41. Greg Albers
Digital Publications Manager,
Getty Publications
galbers@getty.edu
@geealbers
Questions?
Tina Henderson
Digital Publishing Consultant
and Production Artist
tina@tpub.net
@tinahender
Elisa Leshowitz
Director of Publishing
Services, ARTBOOK / D.A.P.
eleshowitz@dapinc.com
Edyta Lewicka
Designer, Potion
edyta@potiondesign.com
Beyond the Printed Page
digitalpublishingbliki.com
Digital Publishing 101 Chart
http://is.gd/digpub101
Notes de l'éditeur
This was a talk given at the 2014 National Museum Publsihing conference, held in Boston, June 12–14.
On any device with a modern browser
Responsive design means a web book could work on desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones wequally well.
Offline too, thanks to HTML5
For free. When was the last time you bought an upgrade to your browser?
• Open languages, for ANYONE to use, for FREE
• Standards based, and increasingly universal
• A growing number of people capable of coding this way, even if not within museum publishing programs
Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent AltarpieceSt. Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent
The Warhol: Timeweb
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Art Babble
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Walker Art Center website
My point here is that a healthy publishing platform shouldn’t be censored from the top down, and on some existing publishing platforms (books and otherwise) porn is the first thing to go.
The image here is Thomas Eakins, “George Reynolds: Seven Photographs”, 1883. In the book “The Nude in Photography”, Paul Martineau (Getty Publications, 2014)
Screenshot from the iOS app, “Twelve”, Ann Hirsch (Klaus_eBooks, 2013). This app was intially for sale in the Apple app store, but then removed by Apple for inappropriate content and is no longer available except in a limited-edition jailbroken iPad from the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. Read more about it at, http://bit.ly/1rd3Y4F
Google Images search for covers of “Lolita” by Vladamir Nabokov
EPUB
• A packaged website
• Intentionally limited
HPUB
• Takes the packaging idea of EPUB and deploys it to more complicated publications
• Can then be converted to App formats
• Essentially an open source Adobe DPS
OSCI Toolkit
• As distinct from OSCI overall
• Uses a popular web CMS, connects to existing museum databases, and publishes potentially to a variety of formats through an API, including web and epub
• Open source
Scalar
• Another open source tool, this time from USC
• Focused on scholarly publications with non-linear narratives
• Stringing together different media
Atlas
• In development from O’Reilly Media
• Built on Git for authoring version control
• Outputs to multiple formats, including epub and the web
GitHub
• Open, collaborative software writing and sharing
• Numerous digital publishing tools are already available there
Digital Publishing Toolkit
• Pictured here on their GitHub page, a project of the Institute of Network Cultures, Rotterdam
• A consortium seeking to build open digital publishing tools
• Also online at http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org
• A non-profit using online book publishing as an education tool and resource
• Five monographs online now, with seven more slated
• All books are free to read in dynamic, scrolling presentation online, or to download in PDF