Editing Digital Products
Digital services such as websites, e-books or other emerging platforms are key business opportunities in the current digital revolution. Spearheading development is the new and emerging role of the digital editor. Today’s competitive publisher needs to be able to accomplish key tasks such as sourcing, developing, producing and editing engaging digital content.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course you should be able to:
- show a clear understanding of editing content in the digital environment
- enable the the production of top-quality digital content and services
- demonstrate how to manage the digital editing process.
This course contributes to PUB 14, PUB 15 and PUB 19 of the Book & Journal Publishing National Occupational Standards.
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.
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.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as In-Company events.
- Dates: 13 October 2014
- Duration: A one-day course
- Price: £385+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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