contributors, and each other, transforming the magazine from a solitary experience into a more collaborative one.
Competition The Boar is one of many publications on campus. While The Boar seeks to serve a niche group (students from the Faculty of Arts), other publications are still vying for this group’s readership. Having an online presence with the three points above can help The Boar compete effectively for readership.
Archiving Going digital is a cheap and easy way to archive. Rather than maintaining physical archives which can be costly (especially over time, given the cost and competition for high space on the University campus), digitized versions of the magazine’s issues can provide equally as effective and, in fact, a more efficient means of content availability for the future.
The goal is to create an online portal that provides ready access to the entire magazine’s content, current and past, in a format that is familiar and efficient. As such, a traditional web portal will be employed. However, this limits the presentation of the magazine’s content. To preserve the entirety of the magazine and provide readers with a rich experience that closely mirrors physical interaction with the magazine, by creating a digital edition of the magazine. The idea is to transcend beyond the standard HTML page and incorporate up‐and‐coming technologies such as iPaper (www.scribd.com) and Issuu (www.issuu.com), and find some middle ground that transforms the online magazine reader’s experience.
Mohammad Jangda | http://digitalize.ca University of Waterloo (DAC 400) Page 3