Digital Editing
Digital services such as websites, e-books, or other emerging platforms are fast becoming key business opportunities in the current digital revolution. Spearheading development is the new and emerging role of the digital editor. Tasks such as sourcing, developing, producing and editing engaging digital content are vital skills for today’s competitive publisher.
This course is designed to:
- increase knowledge and understanding of editing content in the digital environment
- enable the production of top quality digital content and services
- demonstrate how to manage the digital editing process.
Every student will have use of a computer, pre-loaded with all the latest software.
Programme
- In context
- Differences between print and digital
- New roles of producer and consumer
- New ways to communicate
- Stages of workflow
- Print vs digital
- Phases of transition to digital
- Terminology and processes
- Creating an effective product
- Getting the structure right
- Working with authors
- The user’s perspective
- Accessibility
- Editing content
- Developing and editing digital content
- Integrating content
- Methods of content integration
- Using templates
- Creating briefs
- Essential elements of a brief
- Metadata
- What is it and why is it necessary?
- Managing the process
- Content management
- Bug control.
Who will benefit from this course?
All members of the in-house and freelance digital publishing team, particularly commissioning editors, development editors, copy-editors, proofreaders, producers and developers.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 04 July 2012, 11 October 2012
- Duration: A one-day course
- Price: £385+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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