{"id":390,"date":"2005-07-07T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T21:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=390"},"modified":"2005-07-07T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T21:41:32","slug":"institutional-web-management-workshop-2005-publish-and-be-damned-re-purposing-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2005\/07\/institutional-web-management-workshop-2005-publish-and-be-damned-re-purposing-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Web Management Workshop 2005: Publish And Be Damned: Re-purposing In The Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2005: Publish And Be Damned: Re-purposing In The Real World<\/a><\/p>\n

This session is going to describe a project at UCL about repurposing content.<\/p>\n

Is this the ‘holy grail’? Seamless re-purposing. Looking at the ability to share a data source in real time. They are looking for consistency, accuracy and economy.<\/p>\n

Started with a small pilot with a generic approach. The Study Abroad Guide – a booklet produced on a annual basis.<\/p>\n

Looking for the print and web versions to use the same content without cutting and pasting etc.<\/p>\n

Trying to define who owns the processes:
\nUCL – the institution
\nCommittee for the Recruitment of Students
\nDepartments (who autor their own entries)
\nCommunications and Design – the look and ‘voice’
\nWeb Services – the Web look and CMS
\nInformation Systems
\nManagement Systems<\/p>\n

Their were both cultural and technical problems:
\nResistance to changing long-standing proven processes
\nLack of resource for training and implementation
\nCulture change – paper to electronic – particularly in academic departments
\nRe-skilling<\/p>\n

Multiplatform and multi-application process (Quark, Zope, MySQL, Oracle, Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows)
\nMutl skill-base
\nDiffering text needs for print and web (e.g. “see page 10” vs “follow this link”)
\nMany attempts in the past to pass data through to Quark from databases\/Word – but no dynamism from Quark side – so it hasn’t been possible to edit it in Quark, then pass back those changes to the source data<\/p>\n

What are the solutions?
\nGet workflow right – identify essential processes
\nReskill staff – make sure they are given appropriate time for this.<\/p>\n

I’m going through a bit of a post lunch dip – not sure I’m adding much to the slides here (available from the IWMW 2005 website).<\/p>\n

The interesting thing to me is the integration with Quark – the speaker has said that he knew nothing about Quark – and I’m in the same position. Perhaps this is a fundamental failing (and a market opening?) – why is there no crossover here between the applications for paper and online publishing.<\/p>\n

For integrating Quark there seem to be a number of options, but they ended up using something called ‘LinkUP! Enterprise’ (Xcatalog Pro is another – and cheaper – alternative – but US based without so much UK support)<\/p>\n

They prototyped the data structure in MySQL but intended to use Oracle for live. This is interesting, and I wonder if we could use this as a model for rapid development in some areas?<\/p>\n

Anyway, this caused problems because the technical issues of connecting MySQL to Quark turned out to be different to connecting Oracle to Quark – and so they are still running on MySQL!<\/p>\n

Now a live demo – some slight teething problems with the network at the moment…<\/p>\n

OK – now someone in the audience is updating the entry on Anatomy and Developmental Biology – changing the tutor details. This is immediate on the web site – and then a refresh of the document in Quark Express updates the file for print publication. Not only this – but then updating it in Quark, and the data flows the other way as well.<\/p>\n

This is a really good example of making the content independent of the publication process – and also that the user doesn’t care where the content lives – they update it wherever they are working with it.<\/p>\n

Really good to see a real life demonstration of how this stuff can work.<\/p>\n

Having done this with a single publication – they now want to do their prospectuses, departmental booklets, cholarships information and accommodation information. However, not all publications are as structured as their initial pilot publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2005: Publish And Be Damned: Re-purposing In The Real World This session is going to describe a project at UCL about repurposing content. Is this the ‘holy grail’? Seamless re-purposing. Looking at the ability to share a data source in real time. They are looking for consistency, accuracy and economy. Started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-iwmw-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}