About the Virtual Conference
The Web, as a publishing medium, is increasingly important. We live in an age when a publication or an app may not be a self-contained object or artifact, but rather a combination of browser functionality and HTML-formatted content. On the one hand, providers may be able to offer a more interactive and engaging reading experience than is currently possible with a static page. On the other hand, there are challenges in delivering that experience. Some genres (poetry, mathematical expressions, etc.) have highly specific requirements for placement, expression and rendering. How will content providers deliver that to the reader? What are the workflow considerations for production? For libraries -- both those with publishing responsibilities as well as collection or archiving responsibilities -- what new complexities are introduced for long-term preservation? For support of different devices? This six hour virtual conference will examine next steps in moving beyond what we think of as being the "printed page".
Agenda
11:00 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. – Introduction
Jill O'Neill, Educational Programs Manager, NISO
11:10 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. Keynote Presentation: The Web Imperative: How Web Technologies Are Transforming the Publishing Ecosystem
Confirmed Speaker: Bill Kasdorf, VP and Principal Consultant, Apex Content and Media Solutions
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Impact on the Content Provider: Platforms & Workflows
Confirmed Speakers: Thomas Beyer, Director of Platform Services, O'Reilly Media and Todd Toler, Vice President, Digital Product Management, John Wiley & Sons
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch Break
1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Impact on the User: Design, Form & Function
Confirmed Speaker: Michael Jon Jensen, Director of Technology, and Scott Keeney, Manager, Composition and Digital Production, both of Westchester Publishing Services
2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Impact on the User: Accessibility
Confirmed Speaker: Charles LaPierre, Technical Lead of DIAGRAM and Born Accessible, Benetech
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Impact on the Library: Collections & Preservation Concerns
Confirmed Speaker: Corey Davis, Systems Librarian, University of Victoria
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Scholarly Publishing Case Study
Confirmed Speaker: David Kuilman, Director of Content and Data Architecture, Elsevier
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Beyond XML: Making Books With HTML
Confirmed Speaker: Dave Cramer, Senior Digital Publishing Technology Specialist, Hachette Book Group
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion
Moderated by: Jill O'Neill, Educational Programs Manager, NISO
Event Sessions
Keynote Presentation: The Web Imperative: How Web Technologies Are Transforming the Publishing Ecosystem
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Until very recently, publishing technology and web technology developed largely in parallel. Although the Web became essential for communication and commerce, it had very little impact on the nature of publications and how they were produced. That’s rapidly changing. Increasingly, web technologies have become essential to all parts of the publishing ecosystem. The convergence of publishing and the Web over the past few years passed a major milestone this year when the IDPF became part of the W3C and its EPUB family of standards became first class citizens of the Web. The Publishing@W3C initiative is designed to ensure that the wealth of features and functionality offered by the Open Web Platform are advanced to address the needs of professional publishing and complex publications that work both online and offline. And this is not just about publications; it’s also about platforms and processes. Today’s educational platforms are richly interactive, providing multimedia and assessment features that dramatically improve the educational experience. The move toward open source, standards-based software results in tools and systems that enable publishers to avoid the costs and risks associated with proprietary systems. All of this is designed to have accessibility built in. At the heart of the convergence is interoperability: breaking down the barriers that create so much friction in the publishing supply chain, streamlining everything about how we create, produce, disseminate, discover, and consume publications. In this session, Bill Kasdorf will provide an insider’s view of this exciting and dynamic new publishing landscape.
Additional Resources:
Web Publications for the Open Web Platform:
ACCESSIBILITY
WEB ANNOTATIONS
ANNOTATING ALL KNOWLEDGE
INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK
REDLINK REMARQ
VITALSOURCE CONTENT STUDIO
EDITORIA
MANIFOLD
Impact on the Content Provider: Platforms & Workflows
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Impact on the User: Design, Form & Function
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Impact on the User: Accessibility
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Earlier this year the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) created a global accessibility specification (Accessibility 1.0 Specification, Conformance and Discovery Requirements for EPUB Specifications) based on the IDPF’s baseline standard for accessibility. This specification serves as a guide to publishers on how to create born accessible content and enable the discovery of these materials. Further, the specification offers procurement offices a means of ensuring that the ebooks they purchase are accessible. Some states are already writing into their procurement policies that ebooks must be accessible and certified by a third party. Benetech and the DIAGRAM Center helped create this accessibility standard and have been working with publishers to help ensure their content meets this specification. With the recent merger of the IDPF and the W3C, accessibility is being built into the foundation of publishing standards. This presentation will also touch on the work that Benetech is piloting to create a higher level of certification that leverages the full accessibility capabilities of EPUB.
Impact on the Library: Collections & Preservation Concerns
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Scholarly Publishing Case Study
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Beyond XML: Making Books With HTML
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For the last seven years, Hachette Book Group has been producing both print and ebooks directly from HTML. We’ve published a thousand different titles. We've sold more than fifty million print books, and untold numbers of ebooks. Doing this work ourselves in Manhattan saves large amounts of money over offshore conversion. By leaving the page layout metaphor behind, and treating print and digital as aspects of the same content, we work faster, better, and cheaper.
Additional Information
- Cancellations made by Wednesday, May 17, 2017 will receive a refund, less a $35 cancellation. After that date, there are no refunds.
- Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the virtual conference via e-mail the Friday prior to the event. (Anyone registering between Monday and the close of registration will receive the message shortly after the registration is received, within normal business hours.) Due to the widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact the NISO office if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the webinar.
- If you have not received your Login Instruction e-mail by 10 a.m. (ET) on the Tuesday before the virtual conference, please contact the NISO office at nisohq@niso.org for immediate assistance.
- Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the conference. You may have as many people as you like from the registrant's organization view the conference from that one connection. If you need additional connections, you will need to enter a separate registration for each connection needed.
- If you are registering someone else from your organization, either use that person's e-mail address when registering or contact nisohq@niso.org to provide alternate contact information.
- Conference presentation slides and Q&A will be posted to this event webpage following the live conference.
- Registrants will receive an e-mail message containing access information to the archived conference recording within 48 hours after the event. This recording access is only to be used by the registrant's organization.