[…] device for less than $200). First came digital typesetting, then digital layout and design, and now we have full digital workflows, from authors submitting manuscripts electronically to peer-review systems that are entirely built on software to publishing systems that rely […]
[…] libraries, whether the accomplishment is the creation of a popular new service, a successful reorganization, the redesign of an important workflow, or even the elimination of a task formerly considered essential. Such presentations and articles are commonly referred to as […]
[…] (e.g., enhanced ebooks); Part Two lists the items he thinks should be at the top of the list (e.g., stem-to-stern workflow reorganization). It’s a good list (both parts), which I recommend to everyone. I know Linn professionally, and was struck […]
[…] the take up of the iPhone changed all that. The experience was so good that smartphones went from a niche/ workflow/business task oriented product, to mass user/future of the Internet overnight. And Steve Jobs and Apple discovered the truth in […]
[…] and settle around service contracts and content rental users would stop being researchers and start being fully informed participants in workflow and process and in order to make this happen, those who had formerly fought to the death about content […]
[…] with an editorial impulse. Although much talk about publishing today is about technical matters and such things as “integrating the workflow,” no publisher ever started out by focusing on production or process engineering. Publishers begin by asserting what kind of […]
[…] first phase draws to a close, expect to see more and more integration of social tools into the traditional science workflow rather than attempts to make networking an end unto itself. (article updated 4-30-11 to remove incorrect statement that CiteULike […]
[…] the legacy operations that derived from print. The wormhole program, precisely because it is born-digital, will include a complete XML workflow, digital interfaces for authors and editors, digital sales and marketing, digital everything. Over time, this newly evolved infrastructure will […]
[…] Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), recently released a commissioned report on Social Media and Research Workflow. The study is based around a survey of active users of social media and provides an informative picture of […]
[…] your investment strategies — there is probably a better way to spend your money. An integrated approach based on user workflows and practical applications of information tools — however close you can get to that — will probably be more […]
[…] it is well nigh impossible to do that if the end purpose is to defend the rigid linear internal production workflow model of the publisher, who cannot conceive of relinquishing his containers or his pricing models, or the accident-waiting- to-happen […]
[…] news, trade book, or recording industries, for example). Our industry embraced these new technologies early and adopted them into our workflows and business models. Scholarly publishers have been very good at taking print containers and moving them to the Web. […]
[…] paraphernalia of old-fashioned publishing. It wasn’t long ago that publishers were still in the process of moving to pure digital workflows and getting used to not sending film anymore. I’m old enough to remember three distinct recording speeds — 33 […]