Publishing Dashboard
DBL uses the term ‘publishing’ to refer to the process of uploading content to the Content Library. The Publishing Dashboard is the hub for managing content that belongs to your organization. Only content managers of a DBL contributor organization can access this dashboard.
This dashboard is used to publish revision 1 of an item, to draft and publish a new revision of an item, to delete an in-progress upload (unpublished), and to archive published content.
Sections of the content item:
- Descriptive: information about your content that makes it easy to find and identify
- Structural: description of the content, its formatting, and uploading of the actual files
- Administrative: connection to other systems or content as well as the status and visibility in DBL
Click on the Save and exit button at the upper right corner during the Upload Content process, so you can come back later to enter data or upload files for each of the three sections.
Publish Content
After you’ve completed all the sections, your main page will look something like this. After you’ve reviewed all your content, click Publish content to finish.
Delete Content
When you click on the Delete content link at the bottom of the Publishing Dashboard, it will delete all of the unpublished content that is currently saved by the in-app upload process. Please be cautious about this operation, since clicking Delete content will delete all saved work - and that data cannot be recovered.
Terms to Know
Revision 1 / In progress initial draft: As the content is actively being uploaded to DBL, the content item is in its initial revision, or revision 1.
Published: Once all of the publishing criteria are met and the content is published for the first time in the upload process, it will be published as Revision 1. For subsequent revisions, items will go from in progress to a published state.
FOBAI Standards ("Forum of Bible Agencies International" standards): a set of guidelines established by a coalition of Bible translation organizations to ensure accuracy, faithfulness, and clarity when translating the Bible into different languages. DBL requires users who upload content to affirm they have followed these standards. View the translation standards at https://forum-intl.org/resources/translation-standards/
Revision #: When content items are updated (e.g. changes to the metadata information, files added or deleted, book lists reordered, etc.), the updates are saved and republished as the next revision number. Only the current revision is accessible for download.
Archived: A content item can be archived, removing it from the browse content / list view. It will still remain documented on DBL for storage purposes.
Unpublished (tab): In the browse content / list view, the unpublished tab contains content items that are owned by an organization that is either in a state of in progress upload or archived.