IEEE-LTSC DREL Meeting

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IEEE-LTSC DREL Meeting

• The Open eBook Forum
• Overview
• Standards Process
• 2002 Work Plan

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Overview

• Founded 2000
• International, not-for-profit Organisation
• Membership
• Publishers
• IT Companies
• Libraries
• Intermediaries
• Authors
• Mission
• To promote the development of a thriving
  epublishing market
• Structure
• Board of Directors
• Working Groups
• Committees
• Special Interest Groups

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OeBF Activities

• Business
• Committee driven
• Regular bi-weekly Conference Calls
• Events to promote the industry
• Standards
• Working Group driven
• Publication Structure
• Metadata
• Rights and Rules
• Systems
• Requirements

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Publication Structure WG

• OeBPS Specification
• to ensure fidelity, accuracy, accessibility,
  and adequate presentation of electronic content
  over various electronic book platforms
• XML based
• 1.0.1 published
• 1.2 under review
• 2.0 due end 2002

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Metadata and Identifiers WG

• Requirements Process
• Information gathered 2001 mid 2002
• Working towards specifications for
• Identifier for eBooks
• Core Metadata set
• Metadata modularisation process
• Specifications due end 2002

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Rights and Rules WG

• Building on EBX work (integrated Spring 2001)
• Requirements Process
• Information gathered 2001
• Requirements produced October 2001
• Rights Expression Language
• Trust Model
• Other Requirements for Rights and Rules
• Working towards specifications for
• Rights Grammar
• Security
• Rights Expression Language specification due end
  2002

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The OeBF Standards

• Package
• OeBPS
• Define
• Identification
• Metadata
• Rights Language
• Discover
• Identification
• Metadata
• Rights Language
• Consume
• Rights Language
• Security
• OeBPS

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OeBF and other Standards

• MPEG
• Begun mid-2000
• Three formal meetings (2001/2)
• Rights Grammar Requirements Aligned
• Daisy Consortium
• Disability SIG
• Special interest in Rights Expression Language

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OeBF Contacts

• President Steve Potash
• Executive Director Nick Bogaty
• www.openebook.org