EBOOKS WITHOUT VENDORS

Using Open Source Tools to Create and Share Meaningful Ebook Collections

Who am I?

Matt Weaver

Systems Medical Librarian – Cleveland Clinic

Who am I?

Matt Weaver

FormerIT Manager - Westlake Porter Public Library

This talk is not about ebooks

as products

Not an alternative to Overdrive, ebrary, 3M, etc.

EBOOKS AS TOOLSTo be created by:

• the library• the community

Opportunities for:• collaboration• connection

An Experiment: Library as publisher

USAGE: late Oct. 2013 through Jul. 2015

More than 2,000 ebook downloads

More than 60,000 recipes downloaded/printed

15% by cardholders

Costs:

Content: $0

Software licensing: $0

Staff time: 4-7 hours per ebook (estimated)

Mostly editing

An Experiment: Library as publisher

SECURING ACCESS TO CONTENT

DIY: Copyright

Disclaimer:I am not now, nor have I ever been a lawyer.

I am not a copyright expert.

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DIY: Copyright - Resources

http://cocatalog.loc.gov/

DIY: Copyright - Resources

http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

Digital Copyright Sliderhttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/

DIY: Copyright - Resources

Section 108 Spinnerhttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/spinner/

DIY: Copyright - Resources

Copyright Geniehttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/

DIY: Copyright - Resources

Orphan Works

: http://bit.ly/1WRC8ck

“…the Copyright Office rejects the idea that fair use can provide an adequate solution [to the problem of orphan works]”… Krista Cox, Association of Research Libraries

DIY: Copyright Because of digital distribution,

and

because the library does not own titles to be digitized…

o no Fair Use case, o no section 108 protections

Documention ofcopyrightresearch

ContentPermissionagreements

DIY: Copyright

EBOOKS DISSECTED & DIGITIZED

ePub as zip file

ePub as zip file

ebook markup

HTML & CSS

Everything has been digitized, right?

Bad OCR: hours, fractionsScanned ≠ Digitized

CorrectedWPPLEpubpage

Everything has been digitized, right?

Curation/editing takes time.Who else would invest such time?

CorrectedWPPLEpubpage

PRODUCINGEBOOKFILES

Homer ebook project

http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/40965440/FrontPage

HomerThe following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:

ImageMagick (for manipulating images) Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation) JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images) Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition) RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language) Hpricot (HTML parser) RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language

and ImageMagick) Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF) Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer) ScanTailor (post-processing tool) Homer (command-line bash script)

HomerThe following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:

ImageMagick (for manipulating images) Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation) JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images) Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition) RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language) Hpricot (HTML parser) RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language

and ImageMagick) Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF) Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer) ScanTailor (post-processing tool) Homer (command-line bash script)

EbookProduction Workflow

EbookProduction Workflow

or

Homer: ScanTailor

Preprocess tiff-format images of book pages

Deskewing De-speckling Correcting warp

Right-to-left language support

Outputs images for Homer

Homer: ScanTailor

Homer: ScanTailor

OCR challenges

HOMER BASH SCRIPT

It looks like command-line…

HOMER BASH SCRIPT

but it’s drag-and-drop!!!

Homer: tesseract-ocr

Optical Character Recognition

Multilingual support -From Afrikaans to

Vietnamese

Homer: pdfbeads

Outputs a searchable PDF

Homer & pdfbeads

Outputs a searchable PDF

Sigil

https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

Epub Validator

http://validator.idpf.org/

Calibre

http://calibre-ebook.com/

COMMUNITYCOOKBOOKCOOKING.WESTLAKELIBRARY.ORG

Drupal

Open source content management system

drupal.org

Drupal

Ability to create

custom fields for

metadata – can be

hidden from users

drupal.org

Drupal – Controlling Access

Private files

vs

public files

drupal.org

Drupal Controlling Access – ILS authentication module

Drupal – Controlling Access

Taxonomy Control Lite

module: permissions based

on taxonomy terms

drupal.org

Drupal – Recipe module

3 content types:•recipe•ebook•organization

Drupal 7 “Responsive”

layout

Drupal - Omega 3 Responsive Theme

PHASE TWO(WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?)

Drupal – ePub module

Drupal – ePub module

Drupal – PDF module

Drupal – HTML import module

Merging Content

The Community Cookbook – mapping

Bonus:Capturing Original Content …with one more open-source tool, we can even help them design print versions:

Bonus: Capturing Original Content

We can do everything but the printing.

Further Reading

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9911

Further Reading

Jarret Buse Epub from the Ground UP:A Hands-on Guide to EPUB2 and EPUB3

Excellent guide to the guts of ebooks

Features many of the open-source programs I have discussed

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837954536

Further Reading

Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use – Charts and Toolshttp://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts-and-tools/

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Image creditsOpen Source Sign Timothy Appnel -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/tappnel/5798812875/“Librarian from Turn of the Century” -

http://www.moyak.com/researcher/Clients/male_librarians/index.html?id=34

Ereaders - Michael Porter https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5052936803/

Apples & oranges http://mrg.bz/n1xLHgTechno_background2.jpg (ones and zeroes)

http://www.morguefile.com/creative/GrafixarRicoh Copier:

http://www.itinstock.com/ekmps/shops/itinstock/images/ricoh-aficio-mp-4001-fast-photocopier-copier-printer-scan-fax-5598-p.jpg