CONTENT IN A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 
@karenmcgrane
PRINT
WEB
MOBILE
TABLETS
SMART TV
IN-CAR
STAR TREK COMPUTER
GOOGLE GLASS
WATCHES
STADIUM SCOREBOARDS
DIGITAL SIGNAGE
REFRIGERATOR
TOAST
CONTENT 
EMAIL 
INTRANET 
SOCIAL 
MEDIA 
MICROSITES 
MOBILE 
WEBSITE WEB 
TABLET 
APPS 
PRINT 
MOBILE 
APPS 
BLOGS 
SMART 
TV 
IN-CAR 
SYSTEMS 
GOOGLE 
GLASS 
DIGITAL 
SIGNAGE 
DELICIOUS 
TOAST 
WATCHES
PROTECT OURSELVES
TRUE SEPARATION OF 
CONTENT FROM FORM
The future of content management 
systems is in their ability to 
capture the content in a clean, 
presentation-independent way. 
—Daniel Jacobson, Netflix
THE WEB IS NOT A LASER PRINTER
Imitating paper on a 
computer screen is like 
tearing the wings off a 747 
and using it as a bus on 
the highway. 
—Ted Nelson
BLOBS vs. CHUNKS
CONTAINER FIRST
WE BEGAN BY 
IDENTIFYING 
COMMON 
BREAKPOINTS 
DEVICE TYPE WIDTH 
Small screens (portrait) 320px 
Small screens (landscape) 480px 
10" tablets (portrait) 768px 
10" tablets (landscape), 
“desktop” 1024px 
Widescreen 1200px 
(A suggestion: do NOT do this!) 
via Ethan Marcotte, @beep
http://insideintercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/
Accordion 
Article 
Carousel 
Deals 
FAQs 
Flash Wrapper 
HTML Block 
Page 
Press Release 
Rewards Detail
CONTENT MODELING
CONTENT 
PROVIDERS 
CREATE ONCE, PUBLISH EVERYWHERE 
MUSIC 
PARTNERS 
NPR, Open Content and API’s, O’Reilly Oscon 32
TYPE 
article, product spec, recipe, 
medical condition, radio program
Article (generic 
type) 
Bio (doctors, 
other roles) 
News 
Patient stories 
Programs 
Services/ 
Specialties 
Locations 
Condition content 
Clinical pathways 
Events 
Resources (family, 
professional, 
community) 
Forms 
Newsletters 
Quotes 
FAQs 
Clinical trials 
Continuing 
medical education 
Press releases 
Clinical 
publications 
Media placements 
Outcomes and 
volumes 
e-Learning 
PFEs 
Product ordering 
Ask a doctor / 
Q&A 
Donations 
Health tips
ATTRIBUTES 
“fields” or “content objects”
Recipe 
Ingredient 
Step 
Technique 
Category Cuisine 
Chef Diet 
Equipment 
Holiday 
Effort 
Occasion 
Method 
Season 
Servings 
Theme 
Awards
https://www.lullabot.com/blog/podcasts/insert-content-here/14-jared-stoneberg-and-lark-cookbook
Plate Media 
MMMeeedddiiaiaa 
Recipe 
Step 
Ingredient 
Technique 
Season 
Varietal 
via Jeff Eaton, @eaton
And here is an ugly truth 
about structured data: 
there are substantial costs 
to waiting. 
—NY Times
“For example, because our recipes were 
never properly tagged by ingredients and 
cooking time, we floundered for about 15 
years trying to figure out how to create a 
useful recipe database. We can do it now, 
but only after spending a huge sum to 
retroactively structure the data. 
—New York Times Innovation Report 
http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/
THE PDF
33% 
Never 
downloaded 
40% 
Downloaded 
fewer than 
100 times 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/08/the-solutions-to-all-our-problems-may-be-buried-in-pdfs-that-nobody-reads/
✘ Not digital 
✘ Not responsive 
✘ Not searchable 
✘ Not accessible 
✔ Familiar tool 
✔ Simple workflow 
✔ Charts, tables… 
✔ Unstructured flow
While standard HTML is rich enough 
for a designer to represent complex 
content, it isn’t precise enough to 
describe and store the content in a 
presentation-independent fashion.
6,250 PDFs MODELED 
Modeling 
3 weeks 
Pilot Copy&Paste Total 
1 week 5 months 6 months 
4 people 
@ $175 
$84,000 
4 people 
@ $175 
3 people 
@ $75 
8 people 
total 
$28,000 $210,000 $322,000
25,000 PDFs MIGRATED 
Shoveling 
1 week 
1 person 
@ $175 
$2,800
OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON 
ESCAPING FROM THE BLOBS
OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON 
STRUCTURED CONTENT
OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON 
FIGHTING OFF THE ZOMBIES
THANK YOU 
@karenmcgrane 
karen@bondartscience.com 
www.bondartscience.com 
+1 (917) 887-8149

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