About Agate Depot
Agate Depot is a subscription service that gives newspapers an easy-to-use and economical new source of sports agate and news for their print publications.
XML Team and The Sports Network have been supplying dynamic sports data solutions to the online newspaper community for years, and this exciting and groundbreaking product builds on the technology alliance maintained by the two companies.
Editors and agate clerks at newspapers simply log into Agate Depot, view the content that's available, and click. That content then gets pulled down and dropped right into the newspaper's pagination system, wherever the user would like to place the content.
Agate Depot converts the content automatically into input formats suitable for popular pagination systems such as Adobe InDesign and Quark XPress. At this stage of the Beta, only InDesign is supported. Quark will be enabled soon.
Using Agate Depot
Simply browse through the content using the navigation at left. The current Agate Depot beta supports MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL -- and results are best for Standings and for Box Scores. A subset of news stories is also presented (click the "news" link above the League Tabs at left).
Your Feedback Welcome
This is still the early stages of our public beta, and we expect more content and pagination-system support to be rolled out over the next few weeks.
Email feedback and questions to support (at) xmlteam.com -- and include "agate" in the subject line.
Release Notes for Agate Depot
This alpha-testing phase of Agate Depot works with Adobe InDesign.
If you have that software installed, then all you have to do to
import live sports content is:
- Configure the PaginateThis! open-source plugin for InDesign
- Download a sample InDesign page with built-in stylesheet support for Agate Depot's style tags
- Customize the InDesign stylesheet as desired
- Click on any "InDesign" link at left
Note: Preview links at left provide a typical web-based layout of the content, and are not indicative as to how the content is presented within your pagination system. They are provided solely to allow curious sports editors to review the substance of available content.