Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing

Markus Gylling, IDPF, and Ivan Herman, W3C

BiB Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA

2014-10-23

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Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing: EPUBWEB

Markus Gylling, IDPF, and Ivan Herman, W3C

BiB Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA

2014-10-23

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, with attribution to W3C and IDPF
Copyright ©2014 IDPF® and ©2014 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang)

The vision

EPUBWEB is a vision for the future:

The vision

In other words:

The vision

Why bother?

For example: book in a browser

Joseph Reagle's book as a web page
Extract of Joseph Reaggle’s PhD on the Web

For example: book in a browser (cont.)

Joseph Reagle's book as an ebook in a browser
Extract of Joseph Reaggle’s PhD as ePUB

For example: I may not be online…

Person sitting in a station with a mobile in hand
Photo credit: Bryan Ong, Flickr

For example: scholarly publishing

Screen dump of a PLOS 1 page
Screen dump of “Web based applications” on PLOS 1

For example: in-house publishing

Bookshelf full of documentation
Photo credit: Petdro Agüera, Flickr

For example: archival and preservation institutions

Image of a hall at the Bibliothèque National de France
Photo credit: Vincent Dejardin, Flickr

For example: educational materials

University hall with students, most of them with a tablet
Photo credit: Merrill College of Journalism, Flickr

Synergy effects of convergence

Advantage for publishers‘ community

Photo of two javascript books
Photo credit: Nathan Smith, Flickr

Advantage for the Web community

image of a medieval manuscript
Photo credit: e-codices, Flickr

How do we get there?

How do we get there?

In what follows some of the main technical issues will be highlighted

Archival format

Overall document structure

Identification

Identification (cont.)

Improvement on styling, pagination

Presentation control

Conclusion

What is next?

What is next?

If there is consensus

Thank you for your attention

These slides can be accessed on the Web (in HTML):

http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/1023-SF-IH/

Markus Gylling, IDPF
mgylling@idpf.org
Ivan Herman, W3C
ivan@w3.org