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Electronic Publications What, Why, HowGood Practice at Swiss Statistics
Armin Grossenbacher19.6.2014 UNECE
2 Electronic Publications| What, Why, HowArmin Grossenbacher, UNECE, June 2014
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Electronic Publications?
Electronic Publications: a broad field. Everything that is published electronically? Or only certain content that is published in a certain form?
A classification attempt by• formats• places• platforms• paradigms
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Classifying Electronic Publications #1
HTML Webpage HTML Webpage
pdf pdf
CDF CDF
ePub ePub
.folio DigiPub
mobi mobi
Stores:• Apple• Google
play Google books
• Amazon• Windows
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Classifying Electronic Publications #2
Desktop Tablet Mobile eReader
Desktop Tablet Mobile eReader
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Our Requirements at FSO
Start with the users and their needs: Find and help to understand statistics (in context).
An electronic publication should:
1 provide a coherent story (book paradigm) or a collection of separate stories (magazine paradigm).
2 be able to use all presentation forms that are electronically available. From simple text to tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet for updates and searches in encyclopedias.
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Our Requirements at FSO
3 enable social functions (at least sharing, possibly social reading) and analytics.
4 work on the main platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win).
5 be available in the major stores.6 be available in a format that enables requirements 2 to 5.7 be produced with as little effort possible by standardised
and available instruments.
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Our Choice at FSOIn our search for a form that fulfils the requirements, we selected .folio, an open format, part of Adobe‘s Digital Publishing Suite DPS.
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.folioHow did this format come about?Condé Nast is looking for channels for electronic publications. In-house costs unsustainable.Having Adobe as a partner creates a standard: the Digital Publishing Suite DPS with .folio
Known examples: The New Yorker, Wired, The Economist: Intelligent Life,
“The .folio file format has become the de facto standard for highly interactive digital publications. Because of the fast growth of the digital publishing industry, and the increase in marketplaces that want to leverage .folio, Adobe believes that the industry is better served through the licensing of the .folio specification.” (http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2013/12/readership-metrics-open-folio-format.htm l)
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.folio?
.folio: Standardised navigation philosophy Wide range of presentation possibilities Integration of internet content Publication in the major stores Production based on layout programs, editing
systems or web content management systems Open format (ZIP archive with PDF, HTML, XML).
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.folio Navigation
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.folio at FSO
Demo
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.folio & requirements
1&2 Presentation forms for storytellingText, tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet.
3Social functions: sharing Marketing functions: analytics, push notification, web preview.4Platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win).
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.folio & requirements
5Major stores. desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win)
7Integrated into existing production tools, through standardised and existing processes.
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.folio Production Process
• .folios are devised in layout programs or Content Management Systems CMS.
• .folios contain several articles of one or more pages with various multimedia and interactive possibilities.
• .folios are published and evaluated (analytics) using the Digital Publishing Suite DPS on different platforms.
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Looking Ahead
.folio Standard guarantees that further developments are carried out by the manufacturer. Easing of burden on users.
Stay open to other forms, special applications for special presentation forms. e.g. at the FSO: Stat@las Chronostat
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The be-all and end-all
Challenge: Rethink publication!
Authors and also publication specialists (layout designers, visualisers (storyboard artists), publishers) are challenged• in terms of concept with regard to the content that is to be
communicated and • in terms of the presentation due to the possibilities that the
medium is opening up.New ways of working, processes and also changing job descriptions are the result and necessary.
Electronic publication offers everything needed to make a story appealing.
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