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P&P Online:
One Library’s Adventure in Electronic
Publishing
By Bob PisciottaAssociate Director, Library Systems and
Technical Services,A.R. Dykes Library,The University of Kansas Medical Center
The Premise
Dykes Library, KU Medical Center, is the Publisher of the Electronic (WWW) Version of the E-journal Photochemistry & Photobiology.
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
Why Did We Do This?The “wrong” reasons: To make money Because I could I have an indulgent boss
The Principal Players ASP (American Society for Photobiology) KUMC (Dykes Library, University of Kansas
Medical Center) Allen Press
The Print Journal Monthly 2 volumes per year 15-20 articles per issue Typical STM fare: text, some photos, tables
and line art
The Proposal Prototypes Contract terms Cost estimates
Tour of the Periodical Front end Free content: Tables of contents and
abstracts
Tour of the Periodical Restricted content: full-text HTML and PDFs Search functionality Browse functionality
Ingredients SGML files Penta files Hi-res tiffs Gifs (symbols) PDFs
Tools WordPerfect 9.0 Renamer application Adobe Photoshop FrontPage (aargh) MS access ASP scripts
Tools (Continued)
Shell scripts combining Unix and Perl FTP app One Unix web server, and one NT web
server
Production Roadblocks Tiff files without extensions
(solution = Renamer) Greek characters
(solution = gif symbol files)
Output Html Low-res gifs PDFs Browsing database with associated scripts
Processes For documents For images Site processing
The Responsible Parties J.C. Scaiano, editor Dennis Valenzeno, electronic editor Bob Pisciotta, site coordinator Scott Tichenor, tech support Loretta Wright, production support
The Future XML Informix database Conversion on the fly
Lessons Learned Think long and hard before leaping
Lessons Learned Identify dedicated resources
Lessons Learned Solidify support throughout the chain of
command
Lessons Learned Don’t expect to make money
Lessons Learned SGML is a mixed blessing (but XML may
have a brighter future).
Lessons Learned Run in fear from FrontPage
Presentation is available athttp://www.aspjournal.com/ala/