As a publishing technology pioneer and SVP, Global Production and Manufacturing at one of America’s largest educational publishers, Ken Brooks presents lessons for the publishing industry at large based on his experiences implementing successful, large-scale XML production processes.
1. How to S
StartwithXML:
A View from the Front Lines
StartwithXML (why & how)
January 13, 2008
Ken Brooks
SVP,
SVP Global Production & Manufacturing Services
ken.brooks@cengage.com
2. Calling of the Roll after the Charge of the Light Brigade
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3. Cengage Learning Overview
Cengage Learning: Total Revenue $1 8B
$1.8B
Academic &
Gale International
Professional Group
Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors,
students, libraries, government agencies, corporations and professionals around the world. These
solutions are delivered through specialized content, applications and services that foster academic
excellence and professional development and provide measurable results to its customers.
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4. Initiatives
Production Manufacturing
• Divisional consolidation • Manuscript standards • Divisional consolidation • Print on demand
• Production automation • Certified PDF workflow • Demand planning • XBITS
• Design standardization • Soft proofing • Inventory planning
• R&P process integration • Standard rights basket process
• Metadata standards
Vendor Management
• Performance standards
• Vendor consolidation (print, prepress,
• Compliance reporting (LCV, offshore,
image vendors, photo-research)
etc.)
• Offshoring (India, China)
• Requirements planning (Prepress,
Print, Paper)
Technology
• Enterprise system usage • SGML to XML conversion
• Content management system • XML standardization
• Rights management system
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8. The need for XML grows as formats and re-use increase
Formats
Increasing
Relevance
Rl
of XML
Textbook
Trade
STM
Scholarly
Revisions / Re-use
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9. Stages of XML implementation from easy to hard…
• Post publication formats
Post
Production
• Outsourcing / offshoring
• Page makeup automation
g p
Production
• Standardized designs
g
• Authoring templates
Pre
Production
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10. Publishers of different sizes will incorporate XML at different
places
$3.0
$2.5
Annual Cost ($mm)
$2.0
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Traditional
$1.5
Offshore
XML
$1.0
Standardized
A
$0.5
$0.0
- 100 200 300 400 500
Annual Titles
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11. View from different functions
Author Editorial Design Production
• New vendors
n/a n/a n/a
Post
Production
• n/a • n/a • Minor • (More) new
vendors
• Mss prep
Production
•NNew makeup
k
technologies
• XML QA
• Authoring
g • Workingg • “Meta”
templates within design
Pre
templates • Template
Production
selection
• Variable
specification
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12. Themes for successful implementations
“Big bangs make big holes.”
– Gloria Samuels
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13. Themes for successful implementations
“You don't have to be great to get started,
but you have to get started to be great ”
great.
– Les Brown
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14. Themes for successful implementations
“You can pick your friends,
and you can pick your vendors,
but you can’t…”
– George Carlin (paraphrased)
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15. Themes for successful implementations
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
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16. Themes for successful implementations
“If you don’t like change,
you re
you’re going to like irrelevance even less”
less
– General Eric Shinseki
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17. How to S
StartwithXML:
A View from the Front Lines
StartwithXML (why & how)
January 13, 2008
Ken Brooks
SVP,
SVP Global Production & Manufacturing Services
ken.brooks@cengage.com
