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Reading Is A Social Activity
Todd A. Carpenter, NISO Executive Director
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual MeetingMay 31, 2012 - Arlington, VA
@TAC_NISO Twitter Highlights
• Will be discussing social reading today at #SSP2012 =>Socially, on twitter too!
• Trying to be funny & helpful. Pre-tweeting presentation. Slides on Slideshare! #SSP2012
• #NISO = 1/3 Publishers, 1/3 Libraries, 1/3 automation vendors - where communities converge to develop standards #SSP2012
• There are lots of ways that standards apply to content distribution, many you don’t think of. #ssp2012
• No, I’m not going to talk about social media apps. Sorry! #ssp2012
• Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World http://bit.ly/L7tK4Y #ssp2012
• Liza Daly @liza The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati (2010) http://nyti.ms/L7tYJk #ssp2012
• Page “147” is meaningless in a world of reflowable text? #ssp2012
• Some (imperfect) location methods of text location: Chapter/verse, char count, X-Path, pre-post text hash #ssp2012
• If finding text marker is same edition is hard, try different editions, different versions of a text #ssp2012
• Sharing between walled gardens is also an incredible problem #ssp2012
• There is more to annotate than simply text. There are also photos, audio, videos more... #ssp2012
• Information about two Mellon Foundation funded meetings on Social Reading: http://bit.ly/oKoeIB #ssp2012
• Work underway at #NISO to develop an open and extensible standard for location and sharing of annotations #ssp2012
Image: DanTaylor Image: Joel Washing
Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice
Is this what you thought I meant?
Reality or Myth?
Larger part of reality
“Books have been held hostage offline for far too long. Taking them digital will unlock their real hidden value:
the readers.”Clive Thompson - The Future of Reading in a Digital
World in Wired Magazine 17.06 (2009)
A truly modern e-reader is one that is intimately connected to the Web and
allows a user to make queries as a series of asides, while reading or after immersive reading has ended.
Liza Daily - Threepress Consulting, Inc
Connected by our devices on a network talking to each other
What’s so hard about sharing annotations?
How do we find what we want to share?
What does page “147” mean in a re-flowable
text?
Version Control and
Edition variations
Chapter & verse? Character count?
X-Path?Pre/post mark hashing?
Some (imperfect) location methods
Sharing between walled gardensWalled garden, Intwood Hall by Katy Walters
Annotation issues we shouldn’t
ignore
Annotation ≠
Bookmarking
Annotations
Bookmarks
More than just text
Cross Media Annotation
NISO Working Group on Standards for Open Annotation
Two Incubation Meetings in 2011
Funded through the generous support of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation
Goal
Develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in a digital text, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or
mutable.
Robert Bolick (Unaffiliated)E. Ann Caldwell, Brown UniversityMeira Chefitz , University of IllinoisSamantha Cohen, Simon & Schuster
Gary Coker, MetaPressCasey Dougherty, Apple Inc.
Markus Gylling, IDPFKenneth Haase, beingmeta, incBaden Hughes, Cabahu Pty LtdMegan Hurst, EBSCO Publshing
Takeshi Kanai, SonyGeorge Kerscher, DAISY Consortium
Caren Milloy, JISC Collections
Bill McCoy, IDPFErin McKean, Wordnik
Andrea Mercado, Copyright Clearance CenterRandall Leeds, hypothes.is
Karina Luke, Book Industry CommunicationAlejandro Rodriguez, Apple Inc.Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe, Inc.
Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Sorotokin, Adobe, Inc.Dan Whaley, hypothes.is
Mohamed Zergaoui, Innovimax SARL
Working group members
Describing an annotation
Slide image from Dr. Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Lab, on SlideShare
Use cases vary wildly between people, and even within people. It all depends on
the particular need, goal or subject. ... You'd have public and private,
disconnected and connected. Just flick a switch for your desired experience.
Mac Slocum - O'Reilly's Online Managing Editor
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
Todd CarpenterExecutive Director
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)