By: E&P Staff For its Johannesburg flagship, The Citizen, large South African publisher Caxton CTP bought a 90-seat Tark archiving system from Milan-based Tera Digital Publishing to help expansion in online publishing.
Caxton, which prints two million copies of its titles per week at nine company-owned plants, already uses Tera's GN3 editorial content-management system across its 88 free and paid titles. It uses Tera's Ted editing program, Fred page-layout application and Topic OPI.
Following a trial of several months, Tark was selected for configurability, media-independent XML-based approach, and tight with GN3, which permits one-step archiving of all work without manual intervention, according to Tera.
Stories are translated into XML, color pictures are retrieved from the OPI and converted into JPEG format, while grayscale and line art are converted into GIF. Caxton will be able to run Tark in conjunction with its existing Tera Site Manager software, which organizes and manages content for digital publication such as Web sites and other presentation technologies using XML-based output channels.
At the same time as XML is generated, a PDF of each page is made. All links between the various elements, established when placing them in the page, are automatically recreated in the library, so that it is possible to search for a story and then jump to the page where it was published and from there to list all the pictures used on that page.
The 70,000-circulation daily uses GN3 not only for daily production but, with the help of Tera's Site Manager Web workflow system, also to feed content to www.citizen.co.za. The paper just ended a six-month trial of daily news podcasting through the GN3 system. Meanwhile, print-edition readership has increased by 15% in the last 12 months. The group now aims to add several Web sites, based on the Citizen's experience.
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