English 5387: Publications Management - Progress Posting 5

Question 1: Identify the single-sourcing level for your two forthcoming single-sourcing project deliverables. Discuss specific strategies or methodologies you might consider for effective content reuse.

The levels of single sourcing are as follows:

• Level 1: Identical content, multiple media (same content, different use).
• Level 2: Static customized content (multiple media/users/information products/product families).
• Level 3: Dynamic customized content (some context sensitivity, user profiles, user selection, personalization, database).
• Level 4: Electronic Performance Support System / EPSS (context sensitivity, content management systems, anticipating user needs, AI).

At a minimum, my project will meet Level 1 being that it will be the same content, the Notice to Authors document in two different formats, one web-based and one printer-friendly. I may also make Level 2, but this depends on the definition of customized. The user will be choosing the print-based product or the web-based content. The user should also be able to choose which links to follow in the web-based product, which provides some static customization. The user would get the same result each time, but would be making a selection. Level 3 may be achievable in a larger scale version of the project in which work resources would be involved. For example, when an author logs into the ParagonPlus/ScholarOne application a larger version of the product could provide that author with the Notice to Authors documents for the journals to which that author most commonly submits or even separate the different portions of those documents. Level 4 may be beyond the requirements for this document. The document rarely changes and there is little anticipation that can be done with legal documentation.