Scoop-in-a-Box

The package comprises a complete editorial system. Included are news and resource planning, and text editor with style sheet support. Permission levels can be set to all folders and the page supervision system with DTP is web-based. The article archive supports text, images and PDF. An automatic e-paper production system is included.

Everything is tightly integrated and easy to install and use. Scoop-in-a-Box is the perfect edtiorial solution for small and medium-size newspapers.

A typical workflow may be like this:

1.
Planning news and resources with NewsPlanner. Plan which articles to write when and by whom. The assignments are supplied with necessary background information. All staff can add proposals.
When the task list is ready it is sent to production with drag-and-drop. Each task is assigned as an empty article with all background info in an attached note.

2.
Reporters or editors see their assignments, write text and organise articles with Scoop Edit or WebEdit. The text editor features all style sheets needed. All images, fact box texts and possible comments are attached to the article. The article is forwarded in the directory structure for editing, with drag-and-drop. WebEdit is same as Scoop Edit but entirely web based.

3.
In PageTrack the planning editor enters the number of pages to produce and which templates to use. The page documents are generated with the pre-defined name standard.

4.
From the PageTrack web overview the page editor opens the page of choice to DTP, accessing all pages in their most recently saved versions.
In QuarkXPress/InDesign the page editor has a Scoop palette, displaying all articles available for placing (from step 2). Text and images are placed on the page with drag-and-drop from the palette.
When a page is finished, the page editor executes a command that extracts all articles and images, creating XML and PDF versions of each article and page, sending these files to the eLibrary/ePaper server, as well as sending PDF to print.

5.
eLibrary, the newsroom's web based archive, is updated with text, images and PDF, using the extracted files from step 4. All search results include a summary list where the articles are highlighted on small page images.

6.
The extracted files from step 4 are used to auto-create pages in ePaper. Subscribers can now read the entire newspaper on the web, just like the paper version.

7.
Content Manager automatically cleans up the daily production baskets (folders/directories), e.g. moving used articles and keeping unused articles, as you prefer.