eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel:
EPUB 3.0 and PSV
Dianne Kennedy, VP of Emerging Technologies, IDEAlliance
Peter Meirs, VP, Production Technologies, Time Inc. and nextPub WG Chair
February 12, 2013
IDEAlliance Position Paper
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel with EPUB 3.0 and PSV
Managing digital source content with PRISM
Source Vocabulary (PSV) facilitates
automated delivery of magazines to the
EPUB 3 eReader channel
About IDEAlliance
• IDEAlliance is a global community
• More than 1,300 member companies
• Identifies specifications and best practices for
efficient end-to-end digital media workflows
• Focus on real-world solutions
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Association Partners• Magazine Media Association (MPA)
• Ad-ID (a Company of 4A’s & ANA)
• JMPA (Japanese Magazine Publishing Association)
• IDPF
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Publisher Partners• AARP/Publications
• American Media, Inc.
• Hearst Magazines
• Meredith Corporation
• National Geographic Global Media
• Rodale, Inc.
• Source Interlink Media
• Time Inc.
• U.S. News Media Group
• Wolters Kluwer
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
PSV & EPUB
• Coordination Meeting at Time Inc. May 2010
– Leadership:
– IDEAlliance: Dianne Kennedy
– IDPF: Garth Conboy, Bill McCoy, Michael Smith
– Publishing representative: Peter Meirs
• Agreement to collaborate on cross-association
specification efforts
– EPUB 3.0 (packaging, delivery & display for eReaders)
– PRISM 3.0 (source content format)
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
• Metadata specification created by IDEAlliance Working
Group members to extend PRISM beyond print.
• Built on the PRISM metadata specification and its
controlled vocabularies.
• Can serve as core metadata model for managing assets
or transforming and delivering them to multiple
platforms (EPUB 3.0, web, mobile and tablet apps).
• PSV is Royalty Free and open.
• Facilitates a design-neutral approach to content
creation.
About PSV
PRISM 3.0
PCV
Namespace
PIM
Namespace
Dublin Core
Namespace
PAM
Namespace
PMI
Namespace
PUR
Namespace
PRM
Namespace
PSV
Namespace
Controlled Vocabularies In-line markup Basic metadata elements
Packaging and delivery Usage rights
Image metadata Recipe metadata Multi-platform source
Foundations of PSV
• Built on existing repositories and technologies (PRISM 3.0)
• Leverages emerging technologies (HTML5)
• Flexible/Modular Framework or “Building Blocks”
• Source content that can be transformed dynamically for
multichannel delivery (including EPUB 3 eReaders)
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
It’s all about the MetadataPSV provides a standard metadata schema that is:
• A blueprint for quickly configuring content object repositories
• A common layer for federating and mapping between existing
repositories
• Semantically constructed to facilitate automated
layout and design
• A standardized framework for integrating
repositories with creative, production,
workflow and delivery systems
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
PSV Building Blocks
Content and Metadata Model
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Content and Metadata Model
EPUB 3 Building Blocks
Packaging PSV as EPUB 3
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
Platform Neutral Content Creation
PrintEPUB3TabletMobileWeb
Programmatic transformation and packaging
Dianne Kennedy, VP of Emerging Technologies, IDEAlliance
Peter Meirs, VP, Production Technologies, Time Inc. and nextPub WG Chair
eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards
February 12, 2013
Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel:
EPUB 3.0 and PSV