Hi,
I'm with the Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology. One of the things we specialize in is developing open source applications and support content for people interested in self publishing,
One of our projects, Page2Pub (http://opl.rit.edu/project/page2pub), can be used in conjunction with a wiki platform, to enable some interesting publishing solutions. Page2Pub is a pair of open source applications that gather content from the web and assemble it into an epub document. The second application can then reformat that epub doc for publication in other media. The current version of the platform is optimized for gathering content from wikis and using it to generate a print ready PDF book that can then be sent to any print on demand service.
This fall we are hoping to run a test of the platform with a professor at RIT who has developed a wiki based coursebook. Each quarter, the prof and his class, use and expand upon the previous classes work. He's planning to use Page2Pub to develop short primer books/pamphlets from that course material (and content on other sites like the Wikipedia).
If you have questions about Page2Pub or self publishing in general, feel free to drop me a line,
- Matt (Open Publishing Lab at RIT, http://opl.rit.edu/ e. mbernius@mail.rit.edu)
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Hi, I'm with the Open Publishing Lab at the Rochester Institute of Technology. One of the things we specialize in is developing open source applications and support content for people interested in self publishing, One of our projects, Page2Pub (http://opl.rit.edu/project/page2pub), can be used in conjunction with a wiki platform, to enable some interesting publishing solutions. Page2Pub is a pair of open source applications that gather content from the web and assemble it into an epub document. The second application can then reformat that epub doc for publication in other media. The current version of the platform is optimized for gathering content from wikis and using it to generate a print ready PDF book that can then be sent to any print on demand service. This fall we are hoping to run a test of the platform with a professor at RIT who has developed a wiki based coursebook. Each quarter, the prof and his class, use and expand upon the previous classes work. He's planning to use Page2Pub to develop short primer books/pamphlets from that course material (and content on other sites like the Wikipedia). If you have questions about Page2Pub or self publishing in general, feel free to drop me a line, - Matt (Open Publishing Lab at RIT, http://opl.rit.edu/ e. mbernius@mail.rit.edu)