XML: the key to multi channel publishing

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XML the key to multi-channel publishing

• How Tijd will enhance its operations through the
  use of XML

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Agenda

• Some background
• XML in the real world
• The use of XML within Tijd
• Vision multichannel publishing
• Conclusion
• Q A

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Background

• What is Tijd?
• Our bottomline

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Background

• What is Tijd?
• Our bottomline

• 1968 start
• 1983 investors newsletter
• 1986 Tijd Electronic Services
• 1990 CD-ROM
• 1993 data broadcast (DBC)
• 1995 internet site
• 1997 Net it be - Internet ISV
• 1998 TIJD Beursmedia - Flemish Dutch JV
• 1999 Net it be Sold to Alcatel

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Paid circulation
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Revenue (mio BF)
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Cash Flow (mio BF)
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Background

• What is Tijd?
• Our bottomline

• Content is king
• but expensive to create
• Content recycling
• Create once
• Re-use many times
• Content syndication
• in our own publications
• sell it to others

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XML in the real world

• What is XML?

• A data format?
• A text format?
• The new ASCII?
• Revolution???

XML, XSL, Schemata, XPath, XML-RPC, SVG
XML a building block of your IS
infrastructure Nothing more, nothing less a
facilitator
Something your architects should care about
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XML in the real world
security
data
Source Simon Phipps, IBM
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XML in the real world
security
data
Source Simon Phipps, IBM
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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Where are we going to?

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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Where are we going to?

• Information intake
• editors / analysts
• feeds
• stock
• financial news (AP/DJ)
• Management
• SGML server (file based)
• Information distribution
• paper
• CD-Rom
• TijdNet (relatively disconnected)

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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Information intake
• Where are we going to?

• People
• Integration with publishing system
• Text can be exported to SGML-server
• Systems
• Several newsfeeds
• News quotes
• Used for TijdNet, daily and DBC
• a lot of systems glueware

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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Management
• Where are we going to?

• SGML-server
• The mythical mammoth
• File repository
• Accessible through HTTP en CGI-scripts

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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Information distribution
• Where are we going to?

• De Financieel Economische Tijd (daily)
• De Belegger (serial)
• Beursplein 5 (serial)
• DBC
• TijdNet (with internet only publications)
• Tijd CD-ROM

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The use of XML in Tijd
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The use of XML in Tijd
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The use of XML in Tijd
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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Information distribution
• Where are we going to?

• Multiple media
• No single source
• editorial system
• website content tool
• some centralized archival
• SGML-server

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The use of XML in Tijd
Editorial system
paper
newsfeeds
SGML server
Other databases
articles
CD ROM
chain of events
Website content
annual reports
Tijd Net
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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Where are we going to?

• A lot of systems
• with integration when needed
• SGML used as an archival format
• Editorial workflow chain of events

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The use of XML in Tijd

• The current status
• Where are we going to?

• An XML-centric data exchange center
• Single source, multiple media
• optimized for
• content re-purposing(or recycling)
• content syndication
• multi-channel publishing

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Multi-channel publishing

• Philosophy
• Infrastructure

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Multi-channel publishing
Fund. dB
Central Customers dB
Daily
Text dB
Newsletters
Internet
audiotex
Quotes dB
TV
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Multi-channel publishing

• Philosophy
• Infrastructure

• A different mindset
• Centralization of content
• Data enrichment for multi-channel publishing
• Event driven publishing

XML
XML workbench
XLibris
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Multi-channel publishing

• Philosophy
• Infrastructure

• Based on open standards
• Flexible extensible
• Designed for
• optimal throughput
• integration with publishing system
• multi-channel publishing

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Multi-channel publishing
XLibris
?
paper
newsfeeds
?
articles
Tijd Net

syndication
CD ROM
Tijd news feed
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Multi-channel publishing

• Re-purposing
• Syndication

• Write, edit, manage media-independent content
• Enrich for multiple media
• link to quote
• related articles
• keywords
• Re-use and re-sell your content

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Conclusion

• Content is king
• Integration of content and transactions
• XML made it all easy
• A publication house becomes a multi-channel
  content publisher