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Substance.io Towards an open approach to digital publishing. Sunday, April 29, 12
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Substance.ioTowards an open approach to digital publishing.
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Documents create networks.
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Substance
• Everyone can publish
• Collaboration (Annotations, Patches)
• Write once, publish everywhere
• Ensuring privacy and overcoming censorship
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Writing is thinking on paper.William Zinsser
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Content is data.Michael Aufreiter
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Content is data
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Not Presentation
Content is data.
Content is data.
CONTENT IS DATA.
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Imitating Paper
• Pages
• Footnotes
• References [1, p245]
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There is no paper.
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Betty
Ralph
Could we illustratehow plugins work?
Sure.
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Betty
Ralph
Boss
*Zomg* This document -
it’s alive!
Could we re!ne thisparagraph? It could
be clearer.
Okay Boss.
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Betty
Ralph
Guys this islooking good.
Go for it!
Boss
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Send to world.
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Why is it important to consider documents as data?
Create once
Publish everywhere
WEB PDF EPUB LATEX
Cross Media Publishing
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Change Management
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Send to world (again).
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Extensibility
Biologists Journalists Mathematicians
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Claim:
Building an editor for everyone is impossible.
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Build your own editor.
Solution:
Provide an easy way for communities to build their own editor.
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The Substance ComposerA toolkit to build your own editor:
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• Document manipulation through Operations.
• Even programmatically through an API.
• Add domain-specific content types. Scientists, go for formulas!
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Censorship / Privacy?
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Store documents on a server you trust.
Hosted data
Unhosted data
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Substance Composer
Doc R1 Doc R2
Ralph’s documents Betty’s [email protected] [email protected]
Doc B1 Doc B2 Doc B3
Doc R2
Betty
Ralph SupervisorActive in this session:
Ralph (Author)Betty (Co-author)Supervisor
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Substance
• An ambitious idea
• An open and extensible document format
• A toolkit for building your own editor
• 100% Open Source Software
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http://substance.iohttp://github.com/substance
@_substance@_mql
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