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Electronic Publications   What, Why, How Good Practice at Swiss Statistics

This document explores the field of electronic publications and attempts to classify them based on formats, places, platforms, and paradigms. It also discusses the requirements for electronic publications at FSO (Swiss Statistics) and introduces the use of the folio format as a solution. The advantages and navigation capabilities of folio are highlighted, along with the production process and future developments. The document concludes by challenging authors and publication specialists to rethink their approach to electronic publication and embrace the possibilities of the medium.

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Electronic Publications   What, Why, How Good Practice at Swiss Statistics

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  1. Electronic Publications  What, Why, HowGood Practice at Swiss Statistics Armin Grossenbacher 19.6.2014 UNECE

  2. Electronic Publications? • Electronic Publications: a broad field. • Everything that is published electronically? Or only certain content that is published in a certain form? • A classification attempt by • formats • places • platforms • paradigms

  3. Classifying Electronic Publications #1 pdf ePub • Stores: • Apple • Google play Google books • Amazon • Windows .folio DigiPub CDF mobi Publishing Places Publishing Formats HTML Webpage

  4. Classifying Electronic Publications #2 Book Magazine Encyclopedia Desktop Tablet Mobile eReader Publishing Platforms Publishing Paradigms

  5. Our Requirements at FSO • Start with the users and their needs: Find and help to understand statistics (in context). • An electronic publication should: • 1provide a coherent story (book paradigm) or a collection of separate stories (magazine paradigm). • 2 be able to use all presentation forms that are electronically available. From simple text to tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet for updates and searches in encyclopedias.

  6. Our Requirements at FSO • 3enablesocialfunctions (at least sharing, possibly social reading) andanalytics. • 4 work on the main platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win). • 5be available in the major stores. • 6be available in a format that enables requirements 2 to 5. • 7beproduced with as little effort possible by standardisedandavailableinstruments.

  7. Our Choice at FSO • In our search for a form that fulfils the requirements, we selected .folio, an open format, part ofAdobe‘s Digital Publishing Suite DPS.

  8. .folio • How didthisformat come about? • Condé Nast is looking for channels for electronic publications. In-house costs unsustainable. • Having Adobe as a partner creates a standard: the Digital Publishing Suite DPS with .folio Known examples: The New Yorker, Wired, The Economist: Intelligent Life, “The .folio file format has become the de facto standard for highly interactive digital publications. Because of the fast growth of the digital publishing industry, and the increase in marketplaces that want to leverage .folio, Adobe believes that the industry is better served through the licensing of the .folio specification.” (http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/2013/12/readership-metrics-open-folio-format.htm l)

  9. .folio? • .folio: • Standardised navigation philosophy • Wide range of presentation possibilities • Integration of internet content • Publication in the major stores • Production based on layout programs, editing systems or web content management systems • Open format (ZIP archive with PDF, HTML, XML).

  10. .folio Navigation

  11. .folio at FSO • Demo

  12. .folio & requirements • 1&2 • Presentation forms for storytelling • Text, tables, pictures, interactive graphics, sound and video, connection to the internet. 3 Social functions: sharing Marketing functions: analytics, push notification, web preview. 4 Platforms: desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win).

  13. .folio & requirements • 5 • Major stores. desktop (Win, Mac), tablet (iOS, Android, Win), mobile (iOS, Android, Win) 7 Integrated into existing production tools, through standardised and existing processes.

  14. .folio Production Process • .folios are devised in layout programs or Content Management Systems CMS. • .folios contain several articles of one or more pages with various multimedia and interactive possibilities. • .folios are published and evaluated (analytics) using the Digital Publishing Suite DPS on different platforms.

  15. Looking Ahead • .folio Standard guarantees that further developments are carried out by the manufacturer. Easing of burden on users. • Stay open to other forms, special applications for special presentation forms.e.g. at the FSO: Stat@las Chronostat

  16. The be-all and end-all Electronic publication offers everything needed to make a story appealing. • Challenge: Rethink publication! • Authors and also publication specialists (layout designers, visualisers (storyboard artists), publishers) are challenged • in terms of concept with regard to the content that is to be communicated and • in terms of the presentation due to the possibilities that the medium is opening up. • New ways of working, processes and also changing job descriptions are the result and necessary.

  17. Thank you! • armin.grossenbacher@bfs.admin.ch • dominic.thomas@bfs.admin.ch

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