Digital Media Initiatives:

XML Workflow for Publishers, Part - 4

Welcome back! The point in concern is not only to convert the traditional assets to the new standards driven formats such that these could become mainstream publications and bringing continuous revenues to publishers, another concern is how to seek c [Read More]

XML Workflow for Publishers, Part - 3

Publishers are confronted with three situations - (a) backlist titles which are mostly in print and no digital copies exist; (b) backlist where titles are available in PDFs; and (c) Frontlist titles which are currently in production. There ma [Read More]

XML Workflow for Publishers, Part - 2

In the part 1 of this topic, we discussed text processing as a critical activity for a publisher and a gradual evolution of generalized markup languages for single-source multiple-format publishing and searcheable documentation databases. Differences [Read More]

XML Workflow for Publishers, Part - 1

Text processing is a critical activity for any publisher which helps in automating parts of document creation and publishing process. The first wave of automated text processing was computer typesetting. The same file contained content and the rendit [Read More]

Digital Media Initiatives is now a member of IDPF

Digital Media Initiatives has become a member of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), formerly Open eBook Forum [www.idpf.org]. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) is the trade and standards association for the digital pub [Read More]

DMI undertakes distribution of print books in India

Digital Media Initiatives has created a country-wide network for distributing print book. This is a sophisticated online application which takes care of an entire life-cycle of distribution of a book in the Indian subcontinent. This is called BookNet [Read More]

Digital Media Initiatives adopts ITIL v3

Digital Media Initiatives (DMI) has adopted IT Infrastructure Library, ITIL (registered trademarks of OGC ) framework of Best Practice guidance for IT Service Management which is the most widely accepted approach to IT Service Management in the world [Read More]