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Bill KasdorfVP and Principal Consultant, Apex Content Solutions
Agile Processes, Agile PublicationsMaking the Most of New and Upcoming Technologies and Standards
First, a few givens . . .. . . along with
some helpful things* you should know about them.
*Too many to go into detail in the time we have here.My presentation will be available;
e-mail me if you need links: [email protected]
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.
E-Book Readers EPUB is the consensus standard
Tablets and Phones Responsive design via CSS Media Queries
Platforms and Retailer Apps iBooks, Google Play, VitalSource, etc.
Online Increasingly, the books, not just their metadata.
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.Web technology is ubiquitous.
The Open Web Platform W3C standards like XML, HTML, CSS, MathML
are the basis for virtually all digital publishing:Online via browsersApps and Platforms
E-Books All are increasingly HTML5-based
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.Web technology is ubiquitous.
Print isn’t going away.
InDesign Upcoming release: greatly improved EPUB export
CSS-Based Rendering of PDFs from XML/XHTML via Formatters
O’Reilly’s Atlas uses Antenna House Hachette uses PrinceXML via Infogrid Pacific
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.Web technology is ubiquitous.
Print isn’t going away.Metadata matters.
Thema Global subject headings; international collaboration,
20+ national groups, 15+ languagesschema.org
Enables faceted search, entities in the browser
ONIX 3.0 Modular, frequently updated, optimized for digital
products and series; ONIX 2.1 support ends in 2014
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.Web technology is ubiquitous.
Print isn’t going away.Metadata matters.
So does accessibility.Diagram Center
Great “how to” resource for accessibilityAccessible Image Sample Book
Examples for maps, charts, diagrams, math, etc.
Benetech / Bookshare Partners with publishers to create accessible versions
and provide them to qualified recipients
A Few Givens
It’s a multichannel world now.Web technology is ubiquitous.
Print isn’t going away.Metadata matters.
So does accessibility.What’s not online is invisible.Interoperability is essential.Standards make it all work.
Lots is happening! Key organizations are actively working
to address issues in these areas
NEWS FLASH:The Web was not
created for publishing.
NEWS FLASH:The Web was not
created for publishing.
NEWS FLASH:The Web was not
created for publishing.It was mainly created for
communication, finding stuff,
and selling stuff.
The W3C has formed the
Digital Publishing Interest Groupto explore how
Web technologies can be improved for publishing.
Why should I care?I hardly ever think about
my website.
The basic options for delivering digital publications:
An App. Programmed for a specific OS.
The Browser. Standard online delivery.
E-Reader. Getting closer to
one-file-works-everywhere.
The basic options for delivering digital publications:
An App. Programmed for a specific OS.
The Browser. Standard online delivery.
E-Reader. Getting closer to
one-file-works-everywhere.
Behind almost all of these:
The Open Web Platform (OWP),
colloquially referred to as
HTML5.
The Open Web PlatformOver 100 W3C specs:
XML, HTML, CSS, SVG, MathML, many more.
HTML5 The structure.
CSS3 The styling.JavaScript
The functionality.
W3C Digital Publishing Interest Group
Main mission:Document use cases
for things publishers need to do using web technologies.Work with appropriate W3C Working Groups
to update the specifications and standards.
Current Areas of Work in the DPIG:
Typography and LayoutAchieving print-quality rendering via CSSAnnotations and Social Reading With W3C and EPUB Annotations WGs
Accessibility and Personalization Very broad, overlaps all other areas
Behavioral UI Standardizing things like pop-ups
Metadata Optimizing schema.org for publishing
Drop Caps! Intensive activity in W3C CSS WG;
implementation interest from Google, Mozilla, AdobeFootnotes! Headers and footers!
High interest, high priority; these intersect with “regions,” annotations work
DPIG is helping to get these things to happen.
Current Areas of Work in the DPIG:
Typography and LayoutAchieving print-quality rendering via CSSAnnotations and Social Reading With W3C and EPUB Annotations WGs
Accessibility and Personalization Very broad, overlaps all other areas
Behavioral UI Standardizing things like pop-ups
Metadata Optimizing schema.org for publishing
schema.org
A standard set of properties and terms for describing “things” on the Web.
Faceted search natively in the browser.Governed and agreed to by the major
search engines and browsers.Enables “rich snippets” via microdata: names, dates, events, addresses, etc.
Properties recently added for education and accessibility.
Remember: it’s not just about your website.
The Open Web Platform is fundamental
to the how content isDevelopedDiscoveredDelivered
The basic options for delivering digital publications:
An App. Programmed for a specific OS.
The Browser. Standard online delivery.
E-Reader. Getting closer to
one-file-works-everywhere.
Behind almost all of these:
The Open Web Platform (OWP),
colloquially referred to as
HTML5.
The free, open, non-proprietary
standard for delivery of
publications based on the
OWP is EPUB 3.
The Mandate for EPUB 3
Based on open standards, royalty freeSupport all types of publications
Enable multimedia and interactivityGlobal language support
AccessibilitySophisticated design, layout, typographyBackwards compatible with EPUB 2.0.1
Extensible, modular architecture
But wait . . . does this actually work
anywhere yet?
Yes. (Are you surprised to know that?)
iBooks is EPUB 3-compliant.So is Kobo. So is Google Play.
And VitalSource and CourseSmart.Many others now support EPUB 3.
Best right now: READIUM.(Note the use of the word “best” . . .)
READIUMOpen source project
to implement all features of EPUB 3.Readium plug-in for Chrome is the best reference platform.
Readium SDK makes it easy (& free)
for developers to implement EPUB 3 in their systems.
The New BISG EPUB 3 Support Grid:(epubtest.org)
What features work on which systems. Interactive, dynamic, continually updated.
epubtest.org
Second generation of BISG EPUB 3 GridUses IDPF’s EPUB 3 Compliance Test Suite
A master set of authoritative files designed to test reading system compliance
for each specific EPUB 3 feature.View current results for a reading system,
or compare implementation of a feature by RSs.Adding accessibility support
reporting this summer.
Okay, so we’re done, right?They aren’t going to be
making any changes, are they?
Of course we’re not done! EPUB 3 was designed to be
modular and extensible.The key is that what is in EPUB 3.0
won’t change, it will just be augmented.
Upcoming Improvements to EPUB 3
EPUB 3.0.1 in final stages of approvalMost changes are spec clarifications/corrections
Most important changes:Integration of Fixed Layout specifications
New <collection> element groups componentsAdditions to Structural Semantics Vocabulary and enabling changes without spec revision
EPUBCheck will support EPUB 3.0.1 in August.
Upcoming Improvements to EPUB 3
New specification for Indexes in EPUBsSpec final, working on implementation roadmap;
accommodates back-of-book or embedded indexes, link to page breaks or specific pointsDraft specification released for
Dictionaries and Glossaries in EPUBsWill enable standalone dictionaries and
glossary or dictionary content as part of an EPUB publication
Upcoming Improvements to EPUB 3
Specification in development for Advanced Hybrid Layout
Enables combination of fixed layout and reflowable EPUBs
Multiple renditions in a single .epub container“Region of Interest” definition and navigationDesigned for manga, comics, graphic novels
Also includes Magazine Vocabulary
Upcoming Improvements to EPUB 3
Developing EDUPUB EPUB Profile for Educational Content
Based on contributions from Pearson & O’ReillyIncludes detailed “Structural Semantics
Vocabulary” for textbooks/educational contentDesigned as delivery format, including metadata, widgets, customizable CSS,
and “distributable objects”An EDUPUB is by definition an EPUB 3
THE EDUPUB ALLIANCE
IDPF Developing EDUPUB EPUB Profile and Open Source Widget Library
IMS Global Key educational/pedagogical standards: QTI (Question and Test Interoperability)
LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) Caliper (Analytics framework)
W3C Responsible for Open Web Platform
Upcoming Improvements to EPUB 3
Announced at IDPF Digital Book on May 29, Public Drafts of four specifications:
EDUPUB Profile
Open Annotation in EPUB
EPUB Distributable Objects
EPUB Widget Packaging and Integration
In conclusion, remember three TLAs and one FLA:
XMLW3COWPEPUB
Watch this space!