closer to metal - ebookcraft 2016 - greg albers

Good Morning! @geealbers #digpublishing and #musetech @GettyPubs. Formerly, Beyond the Printed Page, Hol Art Books, The People's E-Book. Working on it.

The Getty’s new online collection catalogues

getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics

getty.edu/publications/terracottas

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The Press at Colorado College @geealbers

S2 Editions @geealbers

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Closer to Metal *or, Code and Colleagues* Greg Albers, Digital Publications Manager J. Paul Getty Trust @geealbers

•  ACTIVITY  1  

Why does knowing something abut code matter? And what is that something we should know?

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Why does knowing something abut code matter? And what is that something we should know?

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Why does knowing something abut code matter? And what is that something we should know?

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Read and Write HTML Manipulate CSS Recognize and wonder at JS

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Read and Write HTML Manipulate CSS Recognize and wonder at JS Act like a coder Write like a coder Think like a coder

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LESSON 1: Act like a coder Share everything

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.epub -> .zip -> open @geealbers

// Comment your code @geealbers

README.md & Documentation

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Duh, colophon!! @geealbers

Duh, colophon!! @geealbers

LESSON 2: Write like a coder Operate in plain text, see the abstraction

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Separation of content and style @geealbers

Everything is interface @geealbers

Proofreading and encoding Word docs @geealbers

Markdown and YAML @geealbers

Previewing @geealbers

https://github.com/gettypubs @geealbers

The command line @geealbers

LESSON 3: Think like a coder Look for patterns & variables, See text vs. data

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<a href="\.\./cat/(.*?)/">

Regular expressions @geealbers

<%= partial "partials/citation" %> {{ chapter.title }} @mixin perfectimage()

Embedded Ruby, Liquid, Sass @geealbers

Text vs. Data @geealbers

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REPEAT 4 [FD 100 RT 90]

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HESITATE = [FD 50 RT 180] VICTORY = REPEAT 2 [RT 360 LT 360] FD 100 RT 90 REPEAT 2 [HESITATE] FD 100 RT 90 FD 100 RT 90 FD 100 VICTORY

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Thanks! @geealbers galbers@getty.edu