Lodel

logiciel ddition lectronique electronic publishing software

Users training session

Revues.org - Books - Hypotheses - Calenda

Centre pour ldition lectronique ouverte (Clo)

Licence GPL 2001-2013

Schedule
1st part: 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m.
Lodel, a Content Management System for the humanities and social sciences: presentation and exercices

2nd part: 11:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

Editorial preparation: the document template for Word and the configuration of the working space.

3rd part: 2 p.m. 5 p.m.

Editorial preparation and online publishing: Styling with Word and good practices in online publishing

Training session schedule

1st part: 9 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Lodel: a Content Management System presentation and manipulation
Lodel : a Content Management System for the humanities and social sciences Presentation of the software interface: how to organize the content on the journal website How to create and publish a journal issue online with Lodel: presentation and exercises

Training session schedule

2nd part: 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Editorial preparation

The document template for Word

Configuration of the working space How to upload a file with Lodel: presentation and exercises

Training session schedule

3rd part: 2 p.m. 5 p.m. Editorial preparation & online publishing

Styling with Word article review Exercices

Good practices in online publishing

1. Overview

OpenEdition, an umbrella portal

Revues.org platform
Revues.org 300+ journals online 80+ journals in preparation

Editorial support
http://maisondesrevues.org

2. Lodel
Logiciel pour ldition lectronique An electronic publishing software

Lodels features
A software dedicated to the academic electronic publishing in the humanities and social sciences
Paragraph numbering Footnotes Strong structuration of the texts

Long texts Management of the restricted access duration Bibliography Index: authors, keywords, geography, subjects, etc. Management of the PDF (facsimile) Interoperability Multilingual

Content and style are distinguished

Source document 1. Database 2. Mock-up

3. Web page XHTML

One document, many ways to display it

XHTML

PDF

CSS print

Plain CSS for visually impaired and voice machine

Lodel editorial workflow

DTP
Print version

Online Website

Email version

Word styling

Offline Users personal computer

RSS feeds

generated PDF and ePub

Online Editing interface

Other file formats and protocols: OAI PMH, XML, etc.

Uploading Editing Publishing

ePub

Generated for each journal issue Available for download, DRM-free, upgradable

3. Main notions about Lodel

Example of a chronological tree structure for a website (issues)

ISSUE

SUBSECTION
ISSUE SUBSECTION

SUBSECTION ISSUE SUBSECTION

SUBSECTION ISSUE SUBSECTION

SUBSECTION ISSUE SUBSECTION

Example of a thematic tree structure for a website (sections)

News of the month

SECTION

SECTION

SECTION

News & Reviews

SECTION

SECTION

SECTION

Articles

SECTION

SECTION

SECTION

The folders
Folders are containers of documents. There are several types of folders. The choice of a type will depend on your contents.

1st level
First entity, located at the root of the website. Will be displayed in the navigation menu.

2nd level
ISSUE SECTION SECTION (news collection type) DIRECTORY OF WEBSITES DIRECTORY OF PERSONS MEDIA LIBRARY

Similar to a journals print issue. Suitable for a chronological online publishing. Specific to digital publishing, suitable for an online thematic publishing. Contains news: Colloquium announcements, Call for papers, etc. Contains website presentations Contains biographical presentations as, for instance, the editorial team. Contains photo libraries, sound libraries, etc.

3rd level
SUBSECTION

To separate group of articles inside a folder Not available by default at the 3rd level with Lodel 1.0

The documents Texts and persons

The documents are uploaded inside the folders. They form the website content. There are different types of documents

TEXTS
EDITORIAL ARTICLE CHRONICLE ANNOUNCEMENT

BOOK REVIEW
CRITICAL NOTE INFORMATION NOTE

Upload an editorial, or the introduction to an issue. Upload an article. Most common type of document. Upload chronicles, or short articles. Upload announcements (colloquium, seminar, call for papers, etc.) Upload reviews (books, films, thesis, colloquium, etc.) This type is used for information documents: journal's presentation, committees, contacts, subscription, etc.

SIMPLE TEXTS
NOTE COMMENT

This type is used for short texts via the interface (no upload). This type is used to add a comment linked to an article.

PERSONS
BIOGRAPHICAL PRESENTATION

This type is used to describe a person, for instance, the members of the editorial team.

To be continued

online:

http://formations.lodel.org/10/1/
(login: lodel / password: lodel)

Training session schedule

2nd part. 11:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Editorial preparation

The document template for Word

Configuration of the working space How to upload a file with Lodel: presentation and exercises

Editorial preparation

The document template for Word

Cf. http://maisondesrevues.org/300 (in French)
Windows Vista and Windows 7
Word 2003: C:\Users\User name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Models Word 2007/2010: C:\Users\User name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

Windows XP

Word 2003: C:\Documents and Settings\User name\Application Data\Microsoft\Models Word 2007 and Word 2010: C:\Documents and Settings\User name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

Mac OS:

Word 2011 and 2008: /Users/User name/Library/Application Support/Microsoft Office/User models/My models/ Word 2004: /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/User models/My models/

Editorial preparation
Configuration of the working space
1. Use the draft mode (Windows + Word 2010)

2. Show paragraph marks and other formatting symbols

3. File > Options > Advanced > Display section

Style area pane width in Draft view

4. Show the styles window

Training session schedule

3rd part: 2 p.m. 5 p.m. Editorial preparation & online publishing

Styling with Word article Review Exercices

Good practices in online publishing

4. The steps of the publishing process

Styling Importing Documents treatment

First step: styling the documents

DTP FILES

WORD PROCESSED FILES

Conversion/Export Orphan Notes

Cleaning up Structuring into logical components

Example of a file before styling

.

The same file after styling

Well ordered metadata

Cf. http://maisondesrevues.org/108 (in French)
1. Title (mandatory) 2. Additional title 3. Subtitle 4. Author 5. Author description 6. Rights 7. Translator 8. Academic editor 9. Language 10. Title of the reviewed document 11. Author of the reviewed document 12. Bibliographic description of the reviewed document 13. Date of publication of the reviewed document 14. Abstract 15. Keywords 16. Translated title (fr) 17. Rsum 18. Mots cls 19. Translated title (es) 20. Resumen 21. Palabrasclaves 22. Geographical index 23. Chronological index 24. Document number 25. Pagination 26. Date of publication (online) 27. Date of publication (print edition) 28. Bibliographical reference

Second step: uploading the file into Lodel

Third step: managing and changing the documents

Edit the metadata Reload the document Move the document Publish

Good practices

Always use the same norm to name your files Be rigorous with the typography and the editorial standards Never delete a document when its published

Thank you for your attention

sandra.guigonis@openedition.org