 This is the network motion, the function of in-app style. And we're going to talk to you about hybrid publishing workflow and small publishers to create prints and digital both sufficiently simultaneously. This workflow is part of a two-year project. Some people here were also involved in I think I'll call Merkel. First, I think there's a fair share of publishing interested people here, but who knows what's, or who doesn't know what hybrid publishing is? Probably Gino. Well, just to us it means creating prints but also people and websites from the same source as well and the aim process is to make it as efficiently and open to collaboration. Traditionally, the workflow that's used in publishing is to create different outputs from one file, kind of looks like this to us. I guess there's two outputs but they're not really aware which are they don't, we just want to be together. We want to move in different directions not really allowing our own features to flourish and what we propose looks more like this. The different outputs are really allowed to have their own specific features and they build on top of each other and that exists in different grounds. Before we really go into the workflow it's good to consider that those different outputs have different, it means something different to your workflow if you're going to choose for, if you want to make something that's highly customizable and really rich then it's better to go on a website and not choose the equal purchase. This is kind of the traditional workflow that I talked about and the difficult thing here or the problematic thing is that the InDesign file is central and obviously InDesign is a proprietary software that's problematic but also it's not open to authors and editors, they don't know how to use it so it's kind of a lot of process for people involved in the workflow. What we propose is instead of using InDesign that's central and important when things come together we use Markdown and that's pretty good for why it was chosen because it's really good it's so plain and easy to archive it has a lot of sustainability and it's easy to convert and corrections that are made flow easily through to the different outputs you see on the box and the table print and online meeting that are kind of the standard things for us to focus on. So it's Markdown for us to open up the workflow to an iterative process and get places for different players on a level playing pool. InDesign are not so technical people and we are not here when the workflow was created but we are the people who use the workflow and who keep on developing it and at least with new ideas so we'll give you a small overview of how it works so basically here are the ingredients we need to create an EPUB so let's say we want to make an EPUB so of course you need a text editor and processor and the thing is that we work with lots of authors and writers who use Word and that saves dog expires so that's something that we need to take into account unfortunately people use that software so we need a text processor which can export a dog expire of course if you need to mark up it's something to write code and then Pondock library which is what we need to in our workflow to export all the files needed so I guess so much you know about Pondock but for people who doesn't know about it just quickly it's a document converter which can transform plenty of different formats to another and it understands a lot of different markup syntax extensions and also a lot of metadata for documents that are frequently stable also so we use it because it's really easy to work with text and so our difference is output through Pondock as a markup EPUB ICML file design and HTML so the first step the authors and the editors have to stylize the manuscript with software they want so we can use EPUB because it can also export dog expires and then with that simple command line you can convert that to a markup file and so you can see how it's really simple and I guess that you all understand what it's written but the thing is that it's very short and really easy for people that can just paste that line and export what they want and so then you create your own markup file and I guess you all know how to use markup but just to sum up quickly you can really like keep the status as you work inside your dog expires and then you can just save all the patents you put and so basically it's in the markup file that all of the modifications are going to be made if there is something to edit in the files and it has been proved that people that are familiar with coding of course can use markup very quickly so that's why it's really important to know how to work because we can make editors and others more involved in the process and then again use a command line to export your EPUB and we use Kaliuk a lot it's an open source software that can allow you to edit your EPUB and that's it and also of course we use a lot of GitHub to collaborate with a lot of people so you can look at our GitHub page and you can see all the process by every publication because everything is okay there and also since we use a speedpeak tree in the organization of the follow assist tree it's easy to duplicate whatever you want and keep that so it's very convenient for us and so at the Institute of Natural Futures we use AdWords for different series as a theory and demand series there's network notebooks and we use the data that works with Pondoc like for the different files we make accessible through the website but also there is one point with the print PDF we have to create the temporary ICNM files to import the content and create the layouts within design and get back to your alternative to that later yeah so what we've discussed up until now is part of a three year research project that I've said that was conducted by the Institute of Natural Futures together with people at the McDonald Academy and also a consortium of organizations really from the publishing field arts publishers and graphic designers and developers so we really try to work together even though we're in the university we try to use organizations to use things and so we were in part of it and the work that came out of it but we since joined and we are working on expanding it seeing where it can go and new avenues to take in and we just want to point you to documentation of that also these are the kind of people that were in it but it was all documented the process, the research process and we made a hybrid book and I have some with me that I've already taken on the free to take and then on our site you can just find all our blog posts and all the documentation from that period that will be accessible but when that project was finished the people that were involved in it thought well actually it's not finished we need to go on this really important topic and that's when publishing has to inform which is where I work and this is kind of a place for ongoing research and hybrid publication these are some of the projects that we work on like digital news publishing educational publishing, online reading stuff like that so our website basically is this big research of different topics that have to do with hybrid publishing you can see a name that's going to talk later as well and it's involved at the publishing as well and this one's out yeah, this topic right now because they have technical news and stuff like that and then also the sausage machine which is the topic of the next talk I think that we've had he kind of worked on a drag and drop web interface for those parts of the process where you have to use the terminal to produce the books so even making it more accessible again to non-technical people I'll leave the details up to him and so as I say I come back with an optional shift in design because we maybe he worked on improving the current workflow that was based on InDesign because lots of people that were working on creating the publications before were used to InDesign and also because like the switch to the workflow in itself was already a huge step for people to create the publications so I think that we over how hard it is to switch from one software and we are used to that to another so but now we want to go to more open source software of course so to make it so we have to take into account that of course the HTML file that we are exporting with the workflow doesn't work with Gribus but instead of that we have to import an HTML file so that we can keep the headings made and it's also great for us because we work on explaining the HTML branch of the workflow because basically the idea was to turn the current publications with each of the institutes of natural cultures to a more rosable and such able page so we thought about creating a new platform so we can see how it looks like for now so because now on the website you basically have the static files that are exported with the workflow as a PDF that you can download and also an e-mail that you can download but it was pretty hard to have another few of the content in itself of the books so instead we solved about creating an HTML file for each publication with the workflow so for now that's a lot of the website that is in its beta version so there are a lot of things to work on but the idea was to make it a bit more interactive also so you can have more and also a new project was to experiment with an audio output for the workflow that you work with audio books so for now the project is still in development but the idea was to basically create an mp3 file from the text content that would include metadata and then you can switch from one chapter of the book to another and then to produce an m4db file that can include those metadata of course the choice of devices is very important because it should be too problematic and for now the best voices we found were unfortunately made by amazing for the platform they have called ebona.com so for instance Amy and Brian are the top list but we tried to find alternatives and I think it's our favorite we're always looking for possible collaborations with people that are working on similar things so please contact us and we'll see you in the next books yeah