What is database publishing?

The term "database publishing" is generally used for the automated transformation of database contents into presentable formats. A typical database publishing application aggregates content from multiple sources for publishing to multiple formats and output media such as paper, electronic paper, HTML, XML, electronic catalogs and/or CD-ROM based applications etc.

Database publishing software applications are in general add-ons, plug-ins or other types of enhancements to one of the major DTP (desk-top-publishing) software applications such as QuarkXpress, Adobe Framemaker or InDesign. Not so ElePub, which is different in more than just this respect.

In other words database publishing can be regarded as the effort to combine the different worlds of "art and science" in publishing long documents, like product catalogs. The art is in designing the professional layout, needed to preserve the very valuable Corporate Identity throughout all publications and all media. The science is the data, coming from databases, that is to be visualized in these documents. In today's database publishing applications these two worlds are still very much separated - not so in ElePub as you will see from the other pages of this web site.

ElePub is the first object database publishing software