Digital publishing workflow

In the context of XLP, all participants' learning results collected over space and time, is considered to be publishable raw material, to be processed by the publishing workflow.

A digital publishing workflow, often requires the following three components:

1. An event scheduler, where all work items done are time-stamped, or coordinated by the scheduler.
2. A set of initial publishing tasks. Each should use logic model to specify the final publication product.
3. A set of digital tools to edit or distribute digital content.

Due to the maturity and popularity of networked data services, digital publishing workflow can be thought of as a generalized abstraction of product development processes, or even a networked digital marketplace. By adopting a disciplined mechanism to organize digital assets and data services, digital publishing workflow is a way to engage many participants to compose new functions out of resources across the global network.