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