As some of you saw at the table-top discussion on March 19, DLTS is standardizing its publication workflows. In the past, we built Web sites. Now, we run a publication service that puts content online according to its type. Image sets, books, and audio/video each have their own workflow and ultimate destination. These destinations are pools of resources, from which we can draw content for a Web site or a discovery engine.
The image set workflow is fairly mature, book publishing is nearly there, and audio/video publishing is in the works. Once we complete the necessary infrastructure changes, we will be publishing everything in our backlog. Ultimately, we hope to catch up to our digitization process, which continues to be far ahead of publishing.
Here is the workflow diagram:
