Survey of Newspaper Production Flow for E-paper - Kungliga ...

Johan Danckwardt
Survey of newspaper production flow for e-paper 4 Results
4.3 Internal systems and content capabilities
This is the result of the capabilities of the internal content systems at Sundsvalls Tidning.
4.3.1 Newspilot
The Editorial Content Management System Newspilot is a modern system with the intention
to publish parallel in several different media channels. The system contains several functions
that before were the sum of several different systems. The reporters use the text editor when
writing their texts and the photographers upload their images directly into the systems image
database.
The articles are stored in a table with additional information. To each article it is possible to
ad up to nine images. As for the webpage it is possible to make Newspilot generate XML files
of the articles and information. According to Sundsvalls Tidning it is not hard to make the
system generate suited XML files for other purposes.
The XML files intended for the web looks like the following code:
Newspilot webexport, (C)Infomaker Scandinavia AB,
www.infomaker.se
Name of the article
Name of newspaper, in this case ST
2005-05-10 00:00:00, When to publish the article
Inget
true
64141
63890
Name of reporter
Department at Sundsvalls Tidning
Section in the newspaper
StockholmTT
Hedline of article
Here the reporter writes his text.
Here the text continues in a new paragraph.
For an as automated production flow for an e-paper edition as possible it is important that the
system can understand the importance (news value) of an article. The system must be able to
understand that an event of major world importance, like the terrorist attacks on September
11:th, is more important than an article about the coltsfoot that has been sighted in the city
park. Newspilot has a priority index function where the reporter states the importance of the
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