Digital Standards in a Hybrid Publishing World

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Digital Standards in a Hybrid Publishing World

• Alain Pierrot
• i2S

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readers
http//hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/var.1839
anywhere, anytime
http//hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.00099
want to read any way
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on any device
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readers
anywhere, anytime
want to read any way
Its a good thing, because
publishers
Authors/IP creators
want to provide their  content  to any reader,
everywhere!
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publishers
Authors/IP creators
want to provide their  content  to any reader,
everywhere!
But its difficult, because

• its difficult to create  content  without a
  specific target
• its risky to delegate customization to third
  parties
• its costly to customize
• its costly to manage a range of versions for
  one asset

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readers
As

• We are fairly unpredictable may ask for
  contradictory services
• We want choice any book, from any
  publisher/author
• We often dont want/cant afford to spend time
  to pick our choice
• We want advice  authority  i.e. a
  professional, set product
• We want to be free to use the  content 
• In fact, we want reliability customization
  interactivity

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Standardisation should

• help find, identify provide the right contents
  for any need
• Promotional data, catalogs ONIX OpenONIX
• ISBN/ISSN for products are too recent!
• DOI, URIs gt Web of data
• We need to identify  works  (ARROW ?)
• We need to identify authors, right holders!(Book
  Rights Registry)
• We need to provide/be provided the available
  products ONIX, DRM/Creative Commons
• Learn from librarians FRBR model

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ISTC
ISAN
Acide sulfurique Amélie Nothomb Texte
Acide sulfurique Bernard CARANT Film (daprès
le roman dAmélie N..)
A WORK






is instantiated in
V-ISAN
V-ISAN
An Expression
Texte original
Traduction en anglais
Film Version originale
Audio
Film Version sous-titrée
is realised in
EAN
EAN
ISBN
ISBN
ISBN
Ed. Faber and Faber
Livre Audio VDB
/
Ed. Albin Michel
35 mm
Le Livre de Poche
DVD
A Manifestation
Le Gd Livre du Mois
VHF
France Loisirs
Format PDF
Format ePub
is made available in
Film
CD1, 2, 3
Livre A-M
Livre Faber and F.
DVD
An Item (document)
Livre de Poche
Cassette
Livre GLM
Livre France Loisirs
Fichier Format PDF
Fichier Format ePub
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Standards can help everybody

• make sure you deliver/are delivered the right
   content 
• Unicode compliant, complete enough, fonts
• ePub (Daisy/DTBook for accessibility)
• reflowable formats with CSS rules to provide
  flexibility and ubiquity
• PDF, HTML5 to preserve significant layout
   readability  (still an issue!)
• Mime types for embedded media

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Standards can help everybody

• make sure you deliver/are delivered the right
   content 
• Unicode compliant, complete enough, fonts
• ePub (Daisy/DTBook for accessibility)
• reflowable formats with CSS rules to provide
  flexibility and ubiquity
• PDF, HTML5 to preserve significant layout
   readability  (still an issue!)
• Mime types for embedded media

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readers
buy
borrow
sales platforms
query
browse
libraries
booksellers
reference platform
promotion
fulfilment

publishers
technical services
Authors/IP creators
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Digital standards the p-book industry

• Which of these standards are relevant in a
  transitional phase, when content is delivered on
  both digital and physical media?
• Which standards could emerge and help build a
  digital publishing industry federating new
  industrial and commercial players?
• Do digital standards prepare a digital publishing
  world, where readers/consumers participate in
  content generation?

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A jungle of standards, models formats
ISSN
ISBN
EAN
Unicode
PostScript
OAI/PMH
XHTML
.epub
ISTC
ASCII
Mime
FRBR
.pdf
XML
DOI
HTML
ONIX
Unicode
ACS
OpenONIX
Dublin Core
OPDS
DocBook
TEI
Atom
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A matter of scopes

• Intersecting
• display devices
• authoring/editing tools
• marketing/retrieval tools
• countries, languages, time,
• passive/ active reading ?

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Open standards can help usbuild an ecosystem
where the printed book is justanother kind of
display device ?