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P&P Online:

P&P Online:. One Library’s Adventure in Electronic Publishing. By Bob Pisciotta. Associate Director, Library Systems and Technical Services, A.R. Dykes Library, The University of Kansas Medical Center. The Premise.

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P&P Online:

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  1. P&P Online: One Library’s Adventure in Electronic Publishing

  2. By Bob Pisciotta Associate Director, Library Systems and Technical Services, A.R. Dykes Library, The University of Kansas Medical Center

  3. The Premise Dykes Library, KU Medical Center, is the Publisher of the Electronic (WWW) Version of the E-journal Photochemistry & Photobiology.

  4. Why Did We Do This? The “right” reasons: • Test of scholarly publishing/ printing capabilities on the web • R&D test bed for new WWW technologies

  5. Why Did We Do This? The “wrong” reasons: • To make money • Because I could • I have an indulgent boss

  6. The Principal Players • ASP (American Society for Photobiology) • KUMC (Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center) • Allen Press

  7. The Print Journal • Monthly • 2 volumes per year • 15-20 articles per issue • Typical STM fare: text, some photos, tables and line art

  8. The Proposal • Prototypes • Contract terms • Cost estimates

  9. Tour of the Periodical • Front end • Free content: Tables of contents and abstracts

  10. Tour of the Periodical • Restricted content: full-text HTML and PDFs • Search functionality • Browse functionality

  11. Ingredients • SGML files • Penta files • Hi-res tiffs • Gifs (symbols) • PDFs

  12. Tools • WordPerfect 9.0 • Renamer application • Adobe Photoshop • FrontPage (aargh) • MS access • ASP scripts

  13. Tools (Continued) • Shell scripts combining Unix and Perl • FTP app • One Unix web server, and one NT web server

  14. Production Roadblocks • Tiff files without extensions(solution = Renamer) • Greek characters(solution = gif symbol files)

  15. Output • Html • Low-res gifs • PDFs • Browsing database with associated scripts

  16. Processes • For documents • For images • Site processing

  17. The Responsible Parties • J.C. Scaiano, editor • Dennis Valenzeno, electronic editor • Bob Pisciotta, site coordinator • Scott Tichenor, tech support • Loretta Wright, production support

  18. The Future • XML • Informix database • Conversion on the fly

  19. Lessons Learned • Think long and hard before leaping

  20. Lessons Learned • Identify dedicated resources

  21. Lessons Learned • Solidify support throughout the chain of command

  22. Lessons Learned • Don’t expect to make money

  23. Lessons Learned • SGML is a mixed blessing (but XML may have a brighter future).

  24. Lessons Learned • Run in fear from FrontPage

  25. Presentation is available at http://www.aspjournal.com/ala/

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