Les technologies d’édition numérique sont-elles des documents comme les autres ?
Digital publishing technologies are the mean of production of documents such as articles or books, these technologies are therefore original examples of born-digital object. Dynamic, modular, protean. Several recent examples of these technologies tend to question their status. Our starting point is the comparison between documents and digital publishing technologies. However, we will separate them by emphasizing the reflective dimension of these technologies. This paper presents three examples : Distill, a journal whose articles are managed as computer programs ; Quire, a publishing framework that generates multiform books ; Stylo, a semantic text editor that allows writing in a scholarly publishing context. Our methodology consists in the analysis of these three publication systems, emblematic of the digital transformations at work, based on three criteria (structure, registration and reflection). The main interest of these three initiatives is to bring together many of the specificities of born-digital objects that now surround us, whereas traditional editing technologies rely mainly on print workflow.
Publication Document Publishing Digital publishing technologies