| Berlin A to Z, a publishing project involving over 70 people, has been the trigger for the development of a system which should support content development, communication between all actors, and production. Authors, from a wide range of different backgrounds- writing in different languages, had to be provided with a simple interface for the submission of their text- and image-data. Also, the system should encourage communication between authors, allowing to witness the evolution of the book and conveying cues/inspirations for their own contributions. Simultaneous editions in Japanese and Korean asked for a consistent pooling of all data and a transparent workflow. | |
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| One of the finished spreads. Standard elements have been positioned, formatted, and color-coded automatically, allowing designers to concentrate on the essentials... | |
| Authors' profile | |
 linked to all the other relevant pages, such as the article's editing page and the listing of uploaded images | |
| Article | |
 Article page in editing-mode All Information requiring translation is displayed in three versions: the original - English/Japanese/Korean/German and two edited/and/or translated versions - Japanese/Korean. Address input can be verified by directly linking to a map-display, using street name and Zip code as reference. Only visible to he Author, Editors/Translators, and Administrators is a range of checkboxes to identify the actual status of the document within the overall workflow. This information is later used in the layout process: only confirmed articles are available to the designers for production. | |
| Image upload | |
 Entries for caption, photographer, and copyright holder. Only images with confirmed copyrights are available for production During production, selected images are downloaded to the local computer and processed for consistent resolution setting and/or colorspace conversions. | |
| Image listing | |
 Images with insufficient resolution are automatically marked up to provide authors with direct feedback; images can be viewed in their original size. | |
