Web directions-south-2010

PARLIAMENTARY

LIBRARY

WEB DIRECTIONS SOUTH 2010

Bobby Graham, Director PublishingDepartment of Parliamentary Services

October 2010

Parliamentof Australia

Departmentof Parliamentary Services

Conference tracks

Design:

jQuery <3s designers

Development

HTML5 for audio and video

Big picture

How digital affects books and publishing

W3C

RDFa everyone

“the creative's need for triage, the crucial role of incremental design improvements, and the importance of getting back to the hand and keeping things simple.”

Simon Pascal Klein

“I'm a writer, (book) designer, publisher and developer (in whatever order makes sense for that day). As of 2011 I'm working with Flipboard to make real many of the things I think and write about here.

Craig Mod

I'm an editor, publisher, writer, consultant, producer, programmer, designer and cook. Sometimes.

James Bridle

The Iraq War: A Wikipedia historiography

“This particular book—or rather, set of books—is every edit made to a single Wikipedia article, ‘The Iraq War’, during the five years between the article’s inception in December 2004 and November 2009, a total of 12,000

changes and almost 7,000 pages.”

“It amounts to twelve volumes: the size of a single old-style encyclopaedia. It contains arguments over

numbers, differences of opinion on relevance and political standpoints, and frequent moments when

someone erases the whole thing and just writes ‘Saddam Hussein was a dickhead’.”

graphic & web designer, rampant typophile and UI aficionado

Simon Pascal Klein

“Setting type all pretty” limiting your palette of type families using a combination of families, styles, and weights using tracking and small caps for acronyms and tabular data sizing type in relative terms — in ems or percentages — and sticking it to a

scale being careful when mixing different typefaces using the proper glyphs, e.g. proper punctuation playing with alternate styles for ampersands marking paragraphs setting and sizing horizontal flow via measures (line lengths) setting and sizing vertical flow via leading (line heights) playing with hanging punctuation treating text as part of the UI and setting it all in and/or around a good and organised grid

I’m a Canberra based Web designer and developerat the National Library of Australia and have been working on the web in cultural institutions since 1999.

Paul Hagon

Enriching large data setsResource Description Framework attributes (RDFa) add attribute level extensions to XHTML for embedding rich

metadata within web documents.

Flipboard for iPad

What’s the message?

Books are not dead; just different.

Questions?

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