Wayne State University Press identified a need for a system that would unify and manage its data feeds
Wayne State University Press identified a need for a system that would unify and manage its data feeds
2 Pages• Developing the Future of Publishing • Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press identified a need for a system that would unify and manage its data feeds: Virtusales’ BiblioLIVE hosted publishing software was selected. The Challenge Wayne State University Press was using an internal FileMaker Pro bibliographic data system that had been implemented in 1992, and partially rewritten in 2002, before the rise in eBooks and digital publishing. The problem with the legacy system was that it couldn’t effectively repurpose or distribute the data. This meant data was living in 10 different places as people would pull the data out of FileMaker, put it in Excel, edit it, and then merge it into the required format. Technical We have gained many weeks’ worth of staff time i
