Substance.io - Content is data

Substance.io Towards an open approach to digital publishing.Sunday, April 29, 12

Sunday, April 29, 12

Documents create networks.Sunday, April 29, 12

Substance • Everyone can publish • Collaboration (Annotations, Patches) • Write once, publish everywhere • Ensuring privacy and overcoming censorshipSunday, April 29, 12

Writing is thinking on paper. William ZinsserSunday, April 29, 12

Content is data. Michael AufreiterSunday, April 29, 12

Content is dataSunday, April 29, 12

Not Presentation Content is data. Content is data. CONTENT IS DATA.Sunday, April 29, 12

Imitating Paper • Pages • Footnotes • References [1, p245]Sunday, April 29, 12

There is no paper.Sunday, April 29, 12

Could we illustrate how plugins work? Ralph Sure. BettySunday, April 29, 12

*Zomg* This document - it’s alive! Ralph Okay Boss. Betty Could we refine this paragraph? It could be clearer. BossSunday, April 29, 12

Ralph Betty Guys this is looking good. Go for it! BossSunday, April 29, 12

Send to world.Sunday, April 29, 12

Why is it important to consider documents as data? Create once Publish everywhere Cross Media Publishing WEB PDF EPUB LATEXSunday, April 29, 12

Change ManagementSunday, April 29, 12

Send to world (again).Sunday, April 29, 12

Extensibility Biologists Journalists MathematiciansSunday, April 29, 12

Claim: Building an editor for everyone is impossible.Sunday, April 29, 12

Solution: Provide an easy way for communities to build their own editor.Sunday, April 29, 12

A toolkit to build your own editor: The Substance ComposerSunday, April 29, 12

• Document manipulation through Operations. • Even programmatically through an API. • Add domain-speciﬁc content types. Scientists, go for formulas!Sunday, April 29, 12

Censorship / Privacy?Sunday, April 29, 12

Store documents on a server you trust. Hosted data Unhosted dataSunday, April 29, 12

Ralph’s documents Betty’s documents ralph@server-a.org betta@server-b.org Doc R1 Doc R2 Doc B1 Doc B2 Doc B3 Load document Substance Composer Ralph Doc R2 Active in this session: Supervisor Ralph (Author) Betty (Co-author) Supervisor BettySunday, April 29, 12

Substance • An ambitious idea • An open and extensible document format • A toolkit for building your own editor • 100% Open Source SoftwareSunday, April 29, 12

Contribute http://substance.io http://github.com/substance @_substance @_mqlSunday, April 29, 12

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