Nick Bogaty

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Presentation to PRISM WG 1/16/2003

• Nick Bogaty
• Executive Director
• Open eBook Forum
• nbogaty_at_openebook.org
• 212-924-9081
• www.openebook.org

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What is the OeBF?

• Trade and Standards Group for eBook Industry
• 70 Members Worldwide
• Independent Organization Guided by Board of
  Directors and Membership
• Based in New York City

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Membership

• Publishers Random House, HarperCollins, AOL Time
  Warner Book Group, McGraw-Hill, St. Martins
  Press, Simon Schuster, Elsevier Science etc.
• Technology Companies Microsoft, Adobe, Palm
  Digital Media, OverDrive etc.
• Advocacy Groups Daisy Consortium, RFBD etc.
• Other Associations AAP, ALA

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Trade Work

• Conferences
• Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference (Dec.
  2002)
• Book Expo America The eBook Experience (May
  2003)
• Surveys
• Consumer Survey on Electronic Books
• Industry Statistics 2003, Library eBook Survey
  2003 plus others
• Advocacy
• Open an eBook Campaign
• Press Relations

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OeBF Trade and Advocacy Groups

• Business SIG
• Accessibility SIG
• Library SIG
• IP Policy Committee

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Standards Work Leaders

• Metadata and Identifiers WG
• Chair Vacant
• Vice Chair Rebecca Guenther Library of
  Congress
• Publication Structure WG
• Chair Allen Renear, University of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign
• Vice Chair Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto
• Rights and Rules WG
• Chair Amanda Kimmel, Random House
• Vice-Chair Tom Diaz, Adobe Systems Inc.

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Standards Architecture
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Working Groups Process
Requirements
Evaluation
Development
Delivery
Requirements
Publication Structure
Identifiers
Metadata
Rights and Rules
Systems
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Official Guides to OeBF Activity

• OeBF Bylaws
• OeBF Policies Procedures
• OeBF Anti-Trust Documents
• OeBF IP Policy (in draft)

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Real Work! Publication Structure

• Intended Business Goal Make functionally rich
  eBooks cheaper to produce
• XML-based format for content of electronic books
• Combo of existing standards html, xml, xhtml,
  CSS, Unicode etc. w/ oebps package and
  fallbacks
• Upstream Standard. Input PageMaker, inDesign,
  Quark to Output Palm, Microsoft .lit,
  GemstarevenPDF. Input Output NOT Input x
  Output

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Publication Structure Progress

• Version 1.0 released 9/1999
• Accuracy in presentation over numerous eBook
  formats
• One format, multiple reading systems
• Version 1.0.1 released 6/2001
• Bug/Ambiguity Fixed
• Version 1.2 released 8/2002
• Increased Presentation Control
• Markup subset of xhtml 1.1
• Greater CSS control
• Version 2.0 target 5/2003
• Metadata Modularization
• Navigation for Accessibility
• International Character Sets
• Increased Linking between Docs

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Real Work!Rights Rules

• Intended Business Goal Vendors sell product w/
  consistent features, Publishers get more options
  to grant rights to consumers, Consumers see
  eBooks as more valuable
• Standard for a rights grammar which would allow
  for
• Transfer of object and rights among vendors
• End-user view of rights
• Library lending
• Rights to read chapters or other portions
• Giving and lending by consumers
• Printing all pages or selections
• Expiration at absolute or metered time
• Accessibility
• 69 more where these came from

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Rights Rules Progress

• May 2001 RRWG formed.
• June 2001 Call for requirements.
• September 2001 400 requirements received, began
  normalizing and prioritizing.
• Coordinated requirements statement September
  2002, pending member approval. Vote within this
  month. MPEG Liaison.
• RRWG vote on rights language selection, September
  23-30, 2002. Selected XrML.
• Collecting Use Cases now and target for
  completion of 1.0 is May 2003!

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Real Work!Metadata Identifiers

• Intended Business Goal Make Discovery,
  Identification, Organization, Administration,
  Selection, Location and Preservation of eBook
  easier.
• Strategy to endorse and/or adapt a framework for
  modular metadata and identifier standards that
  will enable the effective use of electronic books

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Metadata Identifiers

• No Published Spec
• Possible PRISM Cooperation

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OeBF/PRISM Commonalities

• Membership Types Publishers, Technologists
• Member Companies Adobe, ContentGuard, Publishing
  Dimensions, McGraw-Hill etc.
• Scope Creation of standards to make it easier
  for publishers and technologists to promote an
  industry for electronic content

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Ways to Work Together

• Liaison OeBF Metadata/Identifiers Group
• Liaison OeBF Publication Structure Group
• Liaison OeBF Rights and Rules Group
• Trade Work
• Standards Promotion/Marketing

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For more information

• Nick Bogaty
• www.openebook.org
• nbogaty_at_openebook.org
• 212-924-9081