MPublishing has gradually been rolling out a redesigned interface for many of our publications, including digitalculturebooks, The Journal of Electronic Publishing, and Feminist Studies. In addition to looking and behaving a whole lot nicer, this new design also incorporates some important new functionality. Each article or book now contains Dublin Core metadata stored in metadata tags and RDFa. One reason for doing this was to provide search engines with additional information about our collections. This helps the search…
Posts By: Bryan Smith
Reports from the Field: This post is by Bryan Smith, applications programmer in the Publishing Technology Group at MPublishing, who recently attended DrupalCon 2011, an international conference about the open source content management software, Drupal. Approximately 3,000 DrupalCon 2011 attendees took over the Chicago’s Sheraton Hotel and Towers between Tuesday, March 8th through Thursday, March 10th. The conference was tremendously educational and fun, featuring countless sessions, code sprints, lightning talks and birds-of-a-feather sessions. Many content…
Last week, Thijs Niks (@ThijsNiks) tweeted enthusiasm for the Journal of Electronic Publishing‘s combined use of browser- and print-friendly layouts. (Thanks, Thijs!) “How do you do that?” he asked. In reply, Bryan Smith of MPublishing’s Publishing Technology Group explains how we prepare content for consumption on screen(s) and in print: The Journal of Electronic Publishing, like other journals we publish, goes through an extensive digital workflow before reaching a reader’s screen or printer. Central to…