Single source publishing

Created: 2015-01-01
Status: notes; belief: possible

As part of this website, but also with publishing information in general (e.g. with my school projects, for instance), I’ve been very interested in things like digital preservation, durable links, and single source publishing (SSP).

Some thoughts:

• One approach is to write in a language whose set of features is the intersection of all the sets of features of output formats one is considering. This way, for each thing one writes, there will be an equivalent in each of the output formats.

• Another approach is to take the union of the same sets of features. This way, one has in a sense a “super language” that can deal with a lot more stuff.

Some promising tools:

• Pandoc (used for this site)
• Madoko

Tags: content creation, digital preservation.

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