Substance.io - Content is data

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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 documentsralph@server-a.org betta@server-b.org

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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