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Objectives:
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- To
raise awareness about international developments
in e-publishing and their implication for publishers
in the developing world.
- To
outline the management issues involved in undertaking
an electronic publishing project, including
target definition, infrastructure requirement,
human resources and technical needs.
- To
give hands-on practice in the basics of web
document authoring, layout, design, incorporating
graphics, links, etc.
- To
devise a means of communication and support
for the participating institutions, through,
for example, setting up a user group and developing
a model site.
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Participants:
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- Representatives
from publishers and/or institutions that are
interested in and ready to undertake electronic
publishing projects involving scientific information.
The workshop is designed for those who will
do the hands-on production, design and layout
for e-journals. Ideally, there should be a mix
of editors, authors and technicians, to discuss
the broader management issues.
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Facilitators:
Other
resource persons:
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Format:
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- Presentations
and hands-on practice. One computer for each
participant.
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Dates:
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- March
8-10, 09:30 to 17:30
- March
13-15, 09:30 to 17:30
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Venue:
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- Digital
Information Services Centre, Indian Institute
of Science, Bangalore
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Handouts:
(lists
handouts actually given; idea was to keep printed
handouts to a minimum and encourage participants
to find relevant material on the Internet)
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- Article
- Open
archiving opportunities for developing countries,
by Chan and Kirsop.
- Document
- Budapest
Open Access Initiative.
- List
of international
developments (BMC, SciELO, OAI, etc.)
with brief statement about each.
- Document - Draft
CEIC Best Practices (PDF file, 41 kbytes)
(from Kapil Paranjape).
- Article - Online
or invisible?, by Steve Lawrence (PDF
file, 65 kbytes) (from Subbiah Arunachalam)
- Article - Getting
started in electronic journal publishing,
by Sally Morris (from INASP)
- Flowchart - Process
and decisions in publishing online journals
(JPEG image, 114 kbytes).
- Information sheets - The Journal Server Trust
mission statement
(PDF file, 39 kbytes) and journal
list (PDF file; 41 kbytes) (from and distribution
requested by The
Journal Server Trust, not part of planned
workshop material).
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Resources
required:
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- Computer
workstation per person
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Internet access
- Scanner
with software able to output JPEG or GIF
- Scanner
with OCR
- Web
server so files can be stored centrally and
links built between them
- Software:
Image editing (PaintShopPro or similar), graphic
design, html editor, site management (Macromedia
DreamWeaver, Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Acrobat)
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First
day: Seminars and discussions
Morning:
9:00—9:30 Opening
remarks
Prof.
N. Balakrishnan, Chairman, Information Sciences
Division, Indian Institute of Science
Arunachalam
9:30
— 11:00
- Overview
of electronic publishing: trends and directions
(Chan)
PowerPoint
file, 28 kbytes | HTML)
- Electronic
publishing from the stakeholders’ view
(Kirsop)
- What’s
in it for developing countries?
(PowerPoint
file, 588 kbytes | HTML)
- What’s
is in it for the scientist?
(PowerPoint
file, 16 kbytes | HTML)
- What’s
is in it for the scholarly society publisher?
(PowerPoint
file, 31 kbytes | HTML)
- What’s
is in it for the library?
11:00
— 11:30 Tea Break
11:30
— 13:00
- Electronic
publishing in developing countries:
Case studies — SciELO (Chan and
Kirsop)
(PowerPoint
file sent by Abel Packer, 140 kbytes | HTML)
- Electronic
publishing in India: open discussion
13:00
— 14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon:
14:00
— 15:00: Demonstration
- Bioline
International (Kirsop and Chan)
(PowerPoint
file, 86 kbytes | HTML)
- Harmonization
of diverse file formats
- Integration
into host system (source files)
- Numbering/file
sizes
- Preparation
of abstracts (XML)
- Transfer
to host (ftp)
- Subscriptions
management
- Income
management and transfer
- Monitoring
usage
- Promotion
15:00
— 15:30 Tea Break
15:30
— 17:30
- Misra,
Pati and Patil
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Chan
- Open
Archive Initiative and server interoperability
- Setting
up an open archive
- Uploading
documents
- Demonstration
of an OAI-compliant eprints server
Second
Day: Hands-on workshop
Morning:
9:30
— 11:00
- Policy
and management issues in electronic publishing
(Chan and Kirsop)
- Technology
requirements
- Quality
assurance
- Document
management
- Copyright
issues
- Economic
models
(PowerPoint
file, 15 kbytes | HTML)
- Workflow
in the electronic environment (Chan)
- Comparison
of print and electronic procedures
- File
formats and document conversion
- Electronic
first and multiple outputs
- Document
encoding and transmission
- Display
and outputs
11:00
— 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30
— 13:00
- Distinction
of HTML, SGML, XML (Chan)
(PowerPoint
file, 34 kbytes | HTML)
13:00—
14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon:
14:00—15:30
- Creating
a simple web document (Participants to bring
a research paper for using as model)
- Adding
links (relative and absolute links)
- Adding
graphics (formats)
- Simple
interactivity (forms and scripts)
15:30
— 16:00 Tea Break
16:00
— 17:30
- Metadata
and bibliographic control (Chan)
Third
Day: Hands-on workshop
Morning:
9:30
— 11:00
- Planning
and co-ordination of complex e-journal projects
- Organization
- Tools
- Platform
- Archiving
- Rights
management
11:00
— 11:30 Tea Break
11:30
— 13:00
- Continuation
of morning session
13:00
— 14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon:
14:00
— 15:30
- Building
a 'scout' site for epublishing in India
Group effort in creating a portal of epublishing
resources and links to scientific publications
from India
15:30
— 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00
— 17:30
- Concluding
comments (Chan and Kirsop)
(PowerPoint
file, 16 kybtes | HTML)
- A
proposal for an Indian Journal Server Initiative
(by Dr D. K. Sahu (Journal of Postgraduate
Medicine), a participant)
(PowerPoint
file, 42 kbytes | HTML)
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