Introduction

The Open Textbook Network shares Digital Hub access. Every member of the Co-op and their team will need to be given access to the Hub, so that they can login with their email and password.

The Digital Hub is where you can access a suite of tools designed to easily transform structured documents. This is in many ways where the Well Formed Document Workflow happens.

In addition to file conversions, such as converting a composed Word document to InDesign Tagged Text or converting a Scribe Markup Language file to e-books, the Digital Hub includes numerous features to help you review and adjust your files. These features include:

file checking and statistics reports
ePub validation
adjustments to images when uploading them for inclusion in e-books

Fields are available for required metadata (e.g., ISBNs and book titles) as well as extended metadata for enhanced accessibility (e.g., languages, DOI, and additional title information).

Key Words

Well-Formed Document Workflow (WFDW), ISBN, Scribe Markup Language (ScML), ePub, validation

File Types

The Hub can create the following file types:

Packaged e-books: ePub3, ePub2, mobi

These contain images, metadata, page lists, contents files and XHTML files of separate sections/chapters

HTML5 (converts the book to a single HTML file)
IDTT (a file used for typesetting, ingested into InDesign)
.sam (our abbreviated XML format)
.docx (helpful if converting from XML back to Word for future editions)
ScML (a robust XML file)

XML is considered the durable, archivable file. It contains all the text, linking information, and structure of the document, and can be used to go into all of the other formats noted above. As for PDF, that file type is produced using the IDTT file and InDesign, rather than the Hub, so that the document is print ready and professionally typeset.

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