What Next?In Digital Publishing

陳啟亮 xxc.chen@gmail.com 2005-10-07 NTNU.資訊學研究所.數位出版研究

What is digital

publishing ?� For scientific publishing

� For commercial publishing

� For casual publishing, for entertainment

� etc…

Digital publishing is not only digital book publishing.

The Internet(1980s)� Net before INTERNET:

�ARPANET (1950s)

�Usenet (1980) (protocol: NNTP)

� TCP/IP (1984) (first TCP/IP network : NSFnet)

� IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, PPP, SLIP, ICMP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, SSL, and TLS.

The WWW

(1990s)� world wide web

� URI - Uniform Resource Identifier (IP, DNS)

� HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Web server, Web browser)

� HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

XML, PDF,

DOI, &

Unicode

(1980-1990)

Personal

Computer

(1987) (2005)

E-books

� Electronic books

� Digital books

� Networked books

� …

DRM

� Digital Rights Management

Linking

� Hyperlink

� XLink

Metadata

� Data about data

JDF

� Job Definition Format

� XML

(1999)

Digital printing

Broadband

Accessibility

� Make web content accessible to disabilities

� Whatever using any agent (e.g., desktop browser, voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based personal computer, etc.)

� Wherever using (e.g., noisy surroundings, under-or over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free environment, etc.).

(2003 perspective)

The Semantic

Web� To make web more smart.

� RDF, OWL

� RDF is everywhere (e.g., RSS, JPG from Photoshop CS, XMP)

� Vocabulary structure is everywhere (e.g., DC)

Web Service

� SOAP, XML-RPC, JAX-RPC: (Between client & service provider) (Simple Object Access Protocol, XML-Remote Procedure Call, Java API XML-RPC)

� XML: (Information Object)

� WSDL: (tell How to using WS) (web service description language)

� UDDI: (Service broker) (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)

(2002)

XSL-FO

� XSL: eXtensible Stylesheet Language

�XSLT: (語言轉換) (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)

�XSL-FO: (視覺呈現) (XSL Formatting Object)

�XPath: (XML Path Language)

(2001)

E-Paper

XMP

� eXtensible Metadata Platform

� By Adobe

� It provides a way to embed metadata right in the binary files associated with specific applications.

(2001)

SVG

� Scalable Vector Graphics

� XML, describing 2D vector graphic.

(2001)

Taxonomies

� The structure information about a publication.

� To describe the taxonomy information inside a publication.

Mapping

information� information visualization information

Dog YearsBubble or Bible

CMS, Wiki, collaborative publish

� Web publishing

� Collaborative CMS

� Version Control

(1995) (ubiquitous publishing)

Personal Publish:

Weblog� Market: Weblog Inc. (AOL: $25 million; Oct-05’),

Weblogs.com (VeriSign: $2.3 millions; Oct-05’)

� To Define Weblog:

� Tool perspective – CMS ; RSS, Trackback, XML-RPC, permalink

� Behavior perspective -

(1997, 2003) (ubiquitous publishing)

Citizen

journalism� Personal web publishing: Website, CMS, Blog

� South Korea, Ohmynews.com 2004 (founded 2000)

�Taiwan, 明日報 (Ttimes)

�其他批評

� Media role transformation

(1997, 2003)

Podcasting

� Not only tool,

� Accessibility solution

� Videocasting, screencasting, etc…

(2004) (ubiquitous publishing)

Folksonomy

� Folks + taxonomy

� Categorization and social network

� Del.icio.us, Flickr, 43Things, LibraryThing, Read2, etc…

(2003-) (semantic web & taxonomy)

Microformat

� Based on XHTML & CSS

� First microformat is XFN (XHTML Friends Network)

� hCard, hCalendar, VoteLinks, hReview, XFN, relLicence, relTag, XOXO, etc…

(2003-) (metadata & semantic web)

XHTML 2.0

� Based on XHTML & CSS

� Mixed up metadata and semantic web

(2006?) (metadata & semantic web)

SKOS (simple knowledge organisaztion

system)

� porting (“Webifying”) thesauri:

�classifications, glossaries, thesauri, etc. (e.g., DDC)

�as developed in the “Print World”

(2006?) (semantic web & taxonomy)

Findability

� Enormous indexing: Google Print

� Morville, Peter (2005). Ambient Findability

(2005)

Publish /pub’lish/ (v.t.)

1. To make known or announce publicly; promulgate; proclaim.

2. To print and issue to the public.

3. [Law] To communicate to a third person.

4. To print and issue the work of

-- Webster comprehensive dictionary