{"title":"Collection-level analysis tools for books online","authors":"C. Marshall","doi":"10.1145/1458412.1458426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458426","url":null,"abstract":"Efforts to develop ebook-based functionality have focused thusfar on the individual artifact--the hardware and software reader--and on promoting user engagement with the page by supporting annotation, clipping, and navigation. In this position paper, I will discuss collection-level analytic functionality that will take advantage of the characteristics of online bodies of literature. This functionality includes (1) wisdom-of-crowds tools; (2) analytic tools for gathering; and (3) form- and function-based discovery tools.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124818247","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 integrated eBook: the convergence of ebook, companion web site, and elearning","authors":"Riccardo Mazza","doi":"10.1145/1458412.1458414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458414","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, universities have adopted eLearning solutions as part of their learning resources to provide students with digital and multimedia content. The effect of this strategy is that the educational materials in electronic format are replacing in part (or as a whole) the classic printed books. In this paper we present our strategy of integrating in a single resource an electronic book with a companion eLearning website. Instead of considering the textbook and the eLearning website as two distinct resources that have to be adopted by the students of the course, here we propose a unified approach that integrates both in a single resource.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128633709","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":"Sharing knowledge across language barriers: a universal approach for online books.","authors":"M. Nagi, T. D. Senta","doi":"10.1145/1458412.1458428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458428","url":null,"abstract":"Our focus is on a real case of a massive collection of online books (e-books), the case of EOLSS (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems). It is a massive collection of documentation, under constant change, aiming at different categories of readers coming from multiple linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The current paper aims at presenting a system to navigate bibliographical information of books as well as their contents in any natural language. The system has three modules. The first module deals with the semantic representation of the content of the book using UNL technology. The second module deals with representation of cataloging information. The third module deals with the interface through which the user will read both of the bibliographical information and the content of a given book in his/her native language.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123420277","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":"Reading in the office","authors":"G. Golovchinsky","doi":"10.1145/1458412.1458420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458420","url":null,"abstract":"Reading online poses a number of technological challenges. Advances in technology such as touch screens, light-weight high-power computers, and bi-stable displays have periodically renewed interest in online reading over the last twenty years, only to see that interest decline to a small early-adopter community. The recent release of the Kindle by Amazon is another attempt to create an online reading device. Has publicity surrounding Kindle and other such devices has reached critical mass to allow them to penetrate the consumer market successfully, or will we see a decline in interest over the next couple of years echoing the lifecycle of Softbook™ and Rocket eBook™ devices that preceded them? I argue that the true value of online reading lies in supporting activities beyond reading per se: activities such as annotation, reading and comparing multiple documents, transitions between reading, writing and retrieval, etc. Whether the current hardware will be successful in the long term may depend on its abilities to address the reading needs of knowledge workers, not just leisure readers.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132589807","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 active reading task: e-books and their readers","authors":"M. Landoni","doi":"10.1145/1458412.1458423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1458412.1458423","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the Active Reading task, a recent addition to the INEX Book Search track1. This task aims at exploring how people interact with e-books in different scenarios of use. Besides, it has been designed to take into account a corpus of research on e-book usability and make sure this does not become obsolete but actually inform the design of better, and more usable, e-books and e-readers in the future. This paper starts introducing the relevant research context in order to justify the crucial role of the Active Reading task. It then describes the rational behind the task and its origins. It goes on to examine its aims and objectives, by exploring its related research questions and looking at expectations it should raise, and the positive impact such initiative could have on the e-book research community.","PeriodicalId":258166,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126120274","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}