Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories最新文献

{"title":"The sBook: towards social and personalized learning experiences","authors":"Myriam Ribière, Jérôme Picault, S. Squedin","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871858","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the widespread use of Web 2.0 techniques in our entire surrounding environment, which tend to make it more social, more dynamic and driven by users, some domains have not really changed yet. This is the case for (e-)books which reading remains mainly a solitary activity - or which is done at least without appropriate collaborative tools. However, the benefits of making this activity - and especially active reading - more social and digital are huge - in particular for people having learning reading goals - leading potentially to a wide range of new services: faster access to information, possibility to interact with people sharing similar concerns or able to provide relevant explanations, determining most interesting areas in a book, or even helping users accessing faster the information that will make them progress in their learning curve. Thus, in this position paper, we describe a set of concepts and features about a \"sBook\", which consists in making e-books more social, more communicative, in order to sustain students in a learning activity, and leverage collective intelligence from social interactions to make students' learning experience more efficient.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114576688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Real-time document collaboration using iPads","authors":"Jennifer Pearson, G. Buchanan","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871859","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a real-time collaborative interface for reading groups. We exploit the light and portable properties of iPad hardware to facilitate an intimate interaction experience that gives users the ability to simultaneously mark up their own copy of a document, while instantly viewing notes made by other members of the group. We also introduce a tool that allows group members to quickly `point out' information within a document to other members without physically gesturing with their hands. We finish with a short explanation of a study proposed to test the implemented system.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"67 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130877643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating e-books","authors":"M. Landoni","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871869","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we discuss the importance of evaluation and in particular the impact of user studies on the progress and improvement of e-books and their usability, with particular attention to their design and functionalities aimed at increasing overall user experience. While there is a consensus on the importance of good design and few authors have already been publishing guidelines and provided advice on good practice, still no much attention has been paid to evaluation and its impact on e-book quality. It would indeed be extremely useful for designers to have a common platform in terms of bench-marks, agreed procedures, criteria and measures to evaluate the impact of their products on users but this is far from happening. The reality is that quite a few researchers are setting up evaluation experiments and collecting evidence of good practice but mostly in isolation from other previous or current similar initiatives. Under the INEX Book Track a specific task called Active Reading Task (ART) has been designed to gather efforts across the e-book community. Over the last two years we have tried to raise awareness in related communities but we are still facing serious problems in terms of participation. Indeed, we understand how demanding taking part in ART maybe, as working with users, real or surrogates, always has a high cost in terms of time and resources, this is why we are working to make the overall experience as rewarding, efficient and painless as possible. We strongly believe that such initiative would bring lots of benefits to the e-book community at large, in terms of improved design and quality of e-books. This paper starts with a description of ART, as part of the INEX initiative. We will then point out known problems with participation and discuss how to increase visibility, awareness and participation to ART by involving as many members of relevant communities as possible and by providing them with support and examples of good practice.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114448713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Biblioteca de livros digitais': the privileged space of a transliterate experience for children reading online","authors":"Fernanda Bonacho","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871868","url":null,"abstract":"When you digitalize a different version, or even when you create a book digitally, that implies choices of format, codification and standards which are going to definitely change our experience as readers. Whilst analyzing the Portuguese project 'Biblioteca de Livros Digitais'[2], I question how the use of new technologies has been translating aesthetic innovations into the every day most sensitive reading experience. I believe that important questions about reading comprehension on the digital realm need to be addressed if we want to effectively understand online reading today. In this paper, I will closely examine the skills and abilities needed to interact with e-books on BLD while exploring the answers to these three questions: Is the reading process different on BLD? If so, what new processes are used beyond those needed to comprehend conventional print? And if we are talking about another type of reading, what implications do these differences have for today's literacies? To explore the changing nature of reading, I draw upon the unifying concept of transliteracy created by Sue Thomas and the Production and Research in Transliteracy group (PART)[8]","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127237449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working with first nations: on-demand book service","authors":"Nadia Caidi, M. Lam","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871863","url":null,"abstract":"The \"On-Demand Book Service (ODBS)\" is a collaboration between First Nations communities in Northern Ontario and academic researchers from the University of Toronto. The aim of the ODBS is to bridge the gap between physical and digital libraries. This position paper will provide some history as to how the project began, its use within graduate level courses since 2009, and a follow up workshop held in March 2010, which culminated in funding being allocated to sending technological and human resources, which created more opportunities for the stakeholders to find out solutions together. Using the ODBS as a case study, we will share our experiences and relating them to three themes at this conference: sensitivity to social context, designing across cultural boundaries, and the integration of content and service.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125495661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A system for the collaborative reading of digital books with the partially sighted: project proposal","authors":"W. X. Snelgrove, R. Baecker","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871870","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a collaborative reading environment for digital books for use by and with individuals with failing vision. The system would record the audio of the person reading aloud and synchronize it with the text. The proposal includes two major components; the design of a tablet-based recording and reading system that feels like reading a book rather than using a complex application, and an environment for the intuitive re-reading of these digital books that has few to no visual requirements for the partially sighted individual. The DAISY standard would allow these audio-enhanced books to be interoperable with a variety of existing digital book systems.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"4 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Implementing new knowledge environments: building upon research foundations to understand books and reading in the digital age","authors":"R. Siemens, Julie Meloni","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871864","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present an overview of the first year work and plans for the second year work of the INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) research group, a large international, interdisciplinary research team studying reading and texts, both digital and printed. The INKE team is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefronts of fields relating to textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management. We aim to contribute to the development of new digital information and knowledge environments that build on past textual practices. We discuss our research questions, methods, aims and research objectives, the rationale behind our work and its expected significance - specifically as it pertains to our first year goals of laying a research foundation for this endeavour - and the concrete steps to be undertaken in our second year of the project.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131547814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The metadata challenge: promoting discovery, access, and usability for online books","authors":"J. Ockerbloom","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871856","url":null,"abstract":"With millions of books, serials, and other documents now digitized, rich troves of information and culture can now be made available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. But these riches are worthless if they cannot be found, accessed, and effectively used by the readers who need them. The key to unlock these treasures is metadata. Networked computing enables techniques for making metadata more effective than ever; yet in practice, online collections all too often either do not have or do not take full advantage of the best metadata they could use.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125275155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ebooks children would want to read and engage with","authors":"M. Landoni","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871862","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an effort to build a bookshelf of electronic books for children. This will then be made available for researchers to run user studies. Reading is a very personal experience and, when considering children 6-9 years old, even reading for pleasure is intertwined with learning and getting essential lifelong skills. As children in the Western world are increasingly interacting with technology from a very young age, it is often the case they are exposed and enjoy playing, browsing and searching the web, even before their reading and writing skills are fully developed. Besides, we have experienced in previous studies how extremely positive is children's attitude toward technology and this is worth exploiting when considering an essential and demanding skill such as reading. On this basis, we believe electronic books have lot of potential in engaging and getting children more enthusiastic about reading. Of course proper interfaces have to be designed to take into account young readers' specific needs. In order to involve children in the design process we need a collection of titles that children would want to read. Copyright free material has a role to play with classics that can be presented in appealing editions to children but it is also important to offer content children really want to read. We also need to consider the social side of reading at that young age and how children rely on each other suggestions. This is why we believe the bookshelf we aim to build in consultation with al relevant stake-holders: librarians, book sellers, parents, children and educators, will play a crucial role in getting us a real picture of how children interact and enjoy reading electronic books. In this paper, we will describe a cluster of interrelated projects, all aimed at offering children innovative and engaging e-books. None of these projects has started yet, but in here we will explore their mutual implications and related expectations. Building a bookshelf of children titles will provide us with a collections to be used during the co-design and testing of innovative interfaces for e-books as in project HEBE. It will ensure children taking part in the design process would engage with books they are willing to read for real. This will, in turn, enable us to study and build a social network for children to share and search book reviews made by their peers.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The present and future of google books","authors":"James Crawford","doi":"10.1145/1871854.1871866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1871854.1871866","url":null,"abstract":"The Google Books project has the modest goal of scanning all of the world’s books, converting them to digital form, and making them searchable and accessible. To date over twelve million books, containing over four billion pages, have been scanned and digitized. This is an impressive number but it turns out that scanning is only the beginning of the challenge. One part of the challenge in making books searchable and accessible is that a scan produces an image of a page, and often a blurred or partially obscured one at that, but searching requires a digital representation of the text on the page. Converting the image to text is also critical to creating a good reading experience since the text can then be reformatted to match the display size and the user can control the font size and layout. This is especially important for tablet devices and smart phones.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133173466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}