Digital Publishing

The course is divided into two parts, one institutional in nature, aimed at providing the student with an introduction to the discipline considered in its fundamental aspects, and another monographic, which will be dedicated from year to year to topics of particular relevance in the field of multimedia publishing. On the one hand, the sociological, technical-informatic and humanistic aspects of the discipline, which are dealt with in Unit A, are decisive; on the other hand, an all-round in-depth study of individual topics with the support of projects will be carried out by the instructor and some of his students in Unit B. Both modules aim to offer the student an articulated, multidisciplinary, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the discipline: which, by its peculiar nature, is particularly subject to change.

By the end of the course the student will have to have an adequate measure of Knowledge and Skills and will be able to use some work tools, now essential:
Knowledge: HTML, XML, and CSS encoding fundamentals; DTD, XML, and Namespace formats; Academic coding languages: TEI, EAD. Languages for commercial publishing: Epub3. How to manage and display a dataset (from excel/CSV to view). Web Writing and SEO Copywriting Bases. Web Design Fundamentals: Usability, Information Architecture, Responsive Web Design.
Skills: design and implementation of static and dynamic websites, design of eBooks and multimedia magazines; design and implementation of Data Visualization from data collection.
Tools: Encoding: HTML, CSS, and XML Editors; Web Design: WordPress; EBook: PubCoder, ViewPorter, or IbooksAuthor2; Data Visualization: Tableau Public.