Looking briefly at the definitions and conceptual models of books and code, presenting several companies building Git-based, start-to-finish book publishing tools, and sharing a sample of more than a dozen open source programs now on GitHub that could be applied to digital book publishing work today.
- Online version: http://geealbers.github.io/future-of-digpublishing-is-github
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/geealbers/greg-albers-githubtalkmcn2014
- Audio synched with the slides: http://youtu.be/SA8iww30pUI?t=9m50s
The talk talk was given at the 2014 Museum Computer Network conference in Dallas, Texas (#MCN2014). It was part of a panel of the same name, which also featured Curtis Fletcher talking about the Scalar publishing platform (http://scalar.usc.edu), and Avery Swartz speaking about the Art Canada Institute and its online books program (http://www.aci-iac.ca).
The slides were created with the open source program, deck.js (http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js)