Lesson plan
Database publishing
published the annual catalog of BMUG's software archive using Nashoba FileMaker output display templates on Macintosh computers to image direct to film from which the plates were burned, on a Linotronic 300 imagesetter. Frontispieces were made in Adobe Illustrator 88 and interleaved in plate compositing. It was set in Adobe Bookman, and printed in grayscale at a 60-line screen for an intentionally minimalist effect. Database publishing is an area of automated media production in which specialized techniques are used to generate paginated documents from source data residing in traditional databases such as product information management (PIM), digital asset management (DAM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms. Common examples are mail order catalogues, direct marketing, report generation, price lists and telephone directories. The database content can be in the form of text and pictures but can also contain metadata related to formatting and special rules that may apply to the document generation process. Database publishing can be incorporated into larger workflows as a component, where documents are created, approved, revised and released. The basic idea is using database contents like product information, article and price information to fill out pre-formatted template documents.…
Article summary
published the annual catalog of BMUG's software archive using Nashoba FileMaker output display templates on Macintosh computers to image direct to film from which the plates were burned, on a Linotronic 300 imagesetter. Frontispieces were made in Adobe Illustrator 88 and interleaved in plate compositing. It was set in Adobe Bookman, and printed in grayscale at a 60-line screen for an intentionally minimalist effect. Database publishing is an area of automated media production in which specialized techniques are used to generate paginated documents from source data residing in traditional databases such as product information management (PIM), digital asset management (DAM), and enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms. Common examples are mail order catalogues, direct marketing, report generation, price lists and telephone directories. The database content can be in the form of text and pictures but can also contain metadata related to formatting and special rules that may apply to the document generation process. Database publishing can be incorporated into larger workflows as a component, where documents are created, approved, revised and released. The basic idea is using database contents like product information, article and price information to fill out pre-formatted template documents.…
Key claims
No claims recorded.
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
Bibliography
No sources recorded.
Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.