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| | IT News Report: Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report |
 | | The statistics and analyses in the report focused on the number of users who are adopting e-books and related software, the creation of new technologies, and the increasing use of e-books by publishers as marketing tools that work in tandem with traditional book sales efforts. | | | OeBF members include businesses that publish and sell e-books, as well as technology companies that offer e-book software, such as Adobe Systems, Microsoft, and OverDrive. | | | The OeBF members that contributed data include Adobe Systems, AOL Time Warner Book Group, HarperCollins, Microsoft, OverDrive, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Palm Digital Media, and McGraw-Hill. |
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http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep02/Hane.htm
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| | Surpassing Gutenberg--Access to Published Information for Blind Readers - American Foundation for the Blind |
| | National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), OEBF is the electronic publishing industry's effort to define a cross-platform standard for electronic files. | | | As publishers begin to author their data with both electronic books and print books in mind, their markup requirements will need to be met by a more sophisticated markup scheme. | | | There is general recognition within OEBF that the current 1.0 specification is actually adequate only for conversion of legacy documents (such as PDF files). |
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http://www.afb.org/section.asp?Documentid=1224&Mode=Print
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| | CIMI Publications - eBook Report |
| | The OeBF is an association of hardware and software companies, publishers, authors and users of electronic books seeking to establish common specifications for eBook that will increase acceptance of the emerging electronic publishing industry. | | | The OeB format is being developed by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) which is an association of hardware and software companies, publishers, authors aiming to establish common specifications for electronic book systems. | | | The OeBPS has been developed by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) and is based on XML, in fact it is an example of the Warwick framework in action. |
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http://www.cimi.org/public_docs/ebook2000.html
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| | Cover Pages: Open Ebook Initiative |
| | For example, the OeBF took over the eBook Exchange (EBX) initiative in March 2001, and EBX defined a standard for e-commerce and DRM in eBooks, but it was only implemented in one software product: that which is now known as Adobe Content Server. | | | The OEBF, organized by representatives of some 35 organizations in December 1999, invites all stakeholders involved in electronic book publishing to attend meetings on May 22 and 23 to discuss standards, digital rights management, and 'dual-stream' publishing - the simultaneous publication of print and electronic versions. | | | The Framework is currently under development by the OEBF's Digital Rights Management Strategy working group. |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/openEbook.html
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| | Interoperability: Digital Rights Management and the Emerging EBook Environment |
| | The OeBF Publication Structure ensures that content can be viewed on any reading system which is OeB-compliant, so long as the owner of the reading system has the right to read the content on that reading system. | | | In attempting to craft some sort of DRM eBook interoperability, the approach of OeBF’s Publication Structure might well be a useful guide. | | | Still, such questions must at least be approached if we are to gain an understanding of DRM in the emerging eBook environment. |
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http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january01/mooney/01mooney.html
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| | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home |
| | Even some of the OeBF's present sponsors from the software industry might be more willing to be generous if they knew that a different approach would help move e-books better than the present organization has. | | | Instead of pandering to the prejudices of certain uninformed publishers, the way OeBF has done under Steve Potash, the IEA could encourage the use DRM Lite (or in some cases no DRM). | | | If nothing else, since the most influential funders would come from the book community, not the software one, there would not be the standards-corrupting conflicts that have afflicted the OeBF. |
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http://www.teleread.org/blog/2003_12_21_archive.html#107211109931503392
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| | D26 - Metadata Watch Report #5 |
| | And further to eBook developments, the EBX Working Group (www.ebxwg.org) formally combined with the Open eBook Foundation (www.oebf.org) in March, with a plan to concentrate their efforts toward the efficient development and widespread adoption of electronic publishing standards. | | | As an example of the use of this idea, the existing keyword system in NITF could be complemented with suitably developed concept references. | | | The idea is that the requirements thus collected can be debated and considered for incorporation into the e-publishing standards to be developed by the OeBF. |
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http://www.schemas-forum.org/metadata-watch/fifth/section5c.html
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| | Workshop on Digital Rights Management |
| | In order to implement any standardized scheme for the management of rights in a digital environment, it is first necessary to develop a common ontology that facilitates discussion of complex issues by parties with widely divergent vantage points and vocabularies. | | | The OeBF has a SIG dedicated to the investigation of identifier systems most suited for use in various aspects of electronic publishing. | | | Environments created by combinations of hardware and software are often the deciding factors, since DRM solutions are usually designed and implemented by technology providers. |
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http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/pp/versaware-hahn.html
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| | Edwards to Chair Open eBook Forum |
| | Further information on the OeBF is available at http://www.openebook.com. | | | The OeBF Rights and Rules Working Group involves representatives of more than a dozen leading software and information companies, including Adobe, ContentGuard, Digital Goods, Digital Owl, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, IBM, InterTrust, McGraw-Hill Companies, Microsoft, Random House and Rightscom. | | | The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the new chair of the Rights and Rules Working Group of the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), an international coalition working to create an open and commercially viable standard for interoperability of digital rights management (DRM) systems. |
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http://dc.internet.com/news/print.php/2141_771521
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| | creativepro.com - Open eBook Forum Announces Library Special Interest Group and Survey |
| | One of the first goals of the Library SIG will be to develop the survey methodology, oversee the distribution of the survey and analyze and publish the results. | | | In addition, the OeBF, in conjunction with the American Library Association (ALA), is developing a comprehensive survey called eBook Usage in Libraries. | | | In forming the SIG, the OeBF has made an important step in helping libraries and the industry move into the eBook era," said Rick Weingarten, Director, Office for Information Technology Policy at the American Library Association. |
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http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/19540.html
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| | Pocket PC eBooks / iPod Watch: find free and commercial eBook sites, and technology coverage for Pocket PC ebook and ... |
| | The OeBF has broken the original promises to come up with a universal consumer format that could be read by a number of machines. | | | You can also read the latest version of the proposal for two new groups to serve book people better than the OeBF does, with its "Gold Sponsor" system that let Potash and his software friends bully others members. | | | It's time to remainder the OeBF and replace it with a real trade association for book publishers of all sizes, not just prominent software vendors. |
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http://cebooks.blogspot.com/archives/2003_12_01_cebooks_archive.html
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| | Open eBook |
| | This group will focus primarily on initiating discussions, among stakeholders involved in electronic book publishing, regarding standards, digital rights management, and "dual-stream" publishing - the simultaneous publication of print and electronic versions. | | | SGMLNY on eBooks: "With major vendors such as Adobe, Microsoft, Palm and Gemstar (of Rocket eBook and SoftBook Reader fame) lending credibility to e-books, and the recent popularity of Stephen King's novella on the Web, e-books are becoming more popular with consumers and more of a challenge for publishers. | | | Fortunately, the Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) has recently published its new XML-based standard for e-books "that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and, most importantly, consumers." |
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http://www.dclab.com/DCLTP.ASP?FN=open_ebook
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| | eBook Article @ eBookAd.com |
| | The OeBF survey as it is currently defined will provide the basis of a more accurate data collection instrument,” said Micheal Segroves, Director of Business Development at Palm Digital Media. | | | The statistics program is sponsored by OeBF Gold Sponsors: Microsoft Corporation, Adobe Systems Inc., Palm Digital Media and OverDrive, Inc. | | | For more detail, see the survey methodology at: |
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http://www.ebookad.com/story.php3?storyid=167
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| | eBook FAQs |
| | If you plan to create an "electronic book" you should care as you want to make that book available to as many distributors and end users as possible by creating an electronic book that meets OeBF standards, you can expect many distributors to support that book with hardware and software. | | | The Open eBook (OEB) Forum represents a coalition of interested parties who are working together to promote a standard for creation and distribution of electronic books. | | | The story of electronic books has been one of starts and stops with a commitment to standards and an organization to enable content creators (authors), publishers, distributors, and technology suppliers to work together or at least collaborate, its very likely that this time, electronic books can be successful. |
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http://www.chartula.com/ebookfaq.htm
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| | A New Look for the Book: Overview of Digital Talking Book Technology - AccessWorld® - May 2001 |
| | The Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF; see http://www.openebook.org) is currently at work on its 2.0 publication file format specification, and key features from the Digital Talking Book are under consideration for inclusion in this specification. | | | Time will tell, but the probability that OEBF 2.0 will include most of the features of the NISO/DAISY Digital Talking book is very high. | | | Our blindness may separate us from the rest of the world in some ways, but it doesn't need to separate us in electronic environments. |
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http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pub.asp?DocID=aw020302&select=1#1
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| | eBooks Get Serious: Sales expected to top $10 million in 2003 |
| | Libraries are a huge growth category as they look to revitalize themselves in the age of Google; school systems are finding that todays kids like to read when the media is digital; and consumers are snatching up better devices and more titles as fast as they can. | | | The survey methodology and data aggregation process was developed and supervised by Chartula, Inc., an independent consultant retained by the OeBF. | | | Membership information can be found on the OeBF website at http://www.openebook.org/membership.htm. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0308/msg00242.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Technology Under the cover story |
| | Ebooks may help with this, says the OeBF's Rogaty, pointing out that several American libraries now lend out ebooks via the net, to users who type in their library card number. | | | But the figures show that electronic publishing is slowly growing into a viable business. | | | Early response has been good, although some librarians argue they should be able to buy one ebook and lend it out to multiple users, which would be commercially disastrous for publishers used to selling libraries several print copies of popular titles. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1133013,00.html
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| | Disclaimer |
| | Reasonable efforts are taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all information provided here, but OeBF is not responsible for misprints, out-of-date information, or errors. | | | Information, text, graphics and other content that make up this Web site ("Content") reside on a computer operated by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) or its representative. | | | OeBF is not responsible for the contents of any such referenced Web sites or for the availability of access to such Web sites. |
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http://members.openebook.org/requirements/docs/disclaim.asp
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| | Liaison with other standards groups |
| | The OeBF followed on from the earlier Open eBook Initiative, formed in late 1998. | | | From that initial goal, however, it is likely that the group will extend its horizon to encompass more general electronic publishing. | | | Essentially, the OeBF is looking standardising the data formats and metadata associated with the publication of books and periodicals. |
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http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200105/msg00076.html
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| | Open eBook Forum Announces Ebook Usability Study |
| | A frequent lecturer on electronic publishing, Henke is serving as a Research Fellow to the OeBF while on sabbatical from IBM to finish his doctorate dissertation on the Design of Electronic Books. | | | Henke conducted usability research on electronic books and led IBM's Integrated Product Development Team to define and implement IBM's global electronic book strategy. | | | The results of the survey will be made available at the OeBF website. |
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http://www.writenews.com/2002/012202_ebook_usability.htm
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| | diglib: Fw: Open eBook Forum Metadata/Identifiers Call for Requirements |
| | This group has several participants from ALA (as well as others in the publishing, software, and related industries). | | | Sincerely, Liisa McCloy-Kelley Chair, Metadata/Identifiers Working Group The Open eBook Forum For more information about requirements and the OeBF's systematic foundation for critical thinking, discussion, standards development and decision making in the world of electronic publishing, please see, The Framework for the ePublishing Ecology, at http://www.openebook.org/framework/. | | | Though the OeBF is best known for its work with the Publication Structure, the organization has been expanding its efforts to develop standards in other areas including those of Metadata and Identifiers. |
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~jqj/diglib/archive/msg00209.html
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| | Interview - Women On Writing e-zine |
| | Our goals are to establish specifications and standards and to advance the competitiveness of the electronic publishing industry. | | | With companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Overdrive, Palmdigital Media supporting OEBF what are the plans in the near future for ebooks in libraries*? | | | Another 62% said they would read a book from their library. |
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http://www.womenonwriting.com/interviews2003/070303.shtml
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| | eBokNorge |
| | Arbeidet med en felles publiseringsstandard og Publication Structure WG var på mange måter opphavet til hele OEBF. | | | DRM-gruppen er den nyeste og gruppen kom med sin første innstilling 25.sept (i forbindelse med Electronic Book 2000-konferansen i Washington DC): "A Framework for the Epublishing Ecology". | | | OEBF har to arbeidsgrupper i sving: Digital Rigths Managment Strategy Working Group (DRMSWG) og Publication Stucture Working Group (PSWG). |
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http://www1.his.no/ebok/ebnorge/hisoeb.htm
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| | XML: OeBF Fall Working Group Summit and AAP ETC Meeting |
| | For questions and to RSVP, contact Nick Bogaty at nbogaty@openebook.org. | | | Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages snapshot archive. | | | Numbers for joining the meetings listed above are as follows: OeBF Publication Structure - 512-225-3050 OeBF Metadata and Identifiers - 512-225-3050 OeBF Rights and Rules - 512-225-3050 OeBF Systems - 512/225-3050 |
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http://xml.coverpages.org/OeBF-FallSummit2002.html
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| | Planet eBook - eBooks Community - Where's the OeBF? |
| | Here's the first of the OeBF's stated values: "Providing a forum for the discussion of issues and technologies related to electronic books." | | | Let's go to OeBF Value #3: "Promoting industry-wide participation of electronic publishing through training sessions, guidelines, and demonstrations of proven technology." | | | The specification defines the format content takes when it's converted from print to electronic form, allowing publishers and authors to convert their material once and make it readable by any number of different software programs and/or devices. |
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http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=287
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| | E-Books - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The Openberg project (open-source implementation of the OeBF's recommandations). | | | Attempts are underway to create a standard format for ebooks, notably by The Open eBook Forum (OeBF), based on XML/XHTML. | | | These formats are not nearly as popular as others (notably PDF, PDB, MS Reader and Mobipocket) due to their PC-only nature not being available on other platforms (such as Macintosh, Linux, and Palm), fear of EXE files picking up viruses, and a general reluctance by publishers to move away from popularly accepted formats. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/e-books.htm
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| | Regarding OeBF, one deficiency I see is the lack of interest on their part to encourage the development of native OEBPS reading systems. | | | Any developer can implement it for some purpose. | | | The one which appears to be the furthest along is "OpenBerg", using the Mozilla/Gecko codebase. |
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http://www.teleread.org/noring1.txt
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| | D24 - Metadata Watch Report #3 |
| | Even so, it is perhaps worth noting in this context that, while the OeBF enjoys a good representation from publishers (and booksellers), these are lacking in the membership of EBX, whose members are generally those companies with a vested interest in the development of the enabling technologies. | | | The OeBF's coordination initiative might play a useful role here. | | | It will aim to be fully compatible with the existing ISRC, but the music world already has a number of identifier- and rights-related activities - including the ISRC itself, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), and the Interdeposit Digital Number (IDDN) (http://www.iddn.org) which also has music application. |
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http://www.schemas-forum.org/metadata-watch/third/section5.2.html
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| | CONSORTIUM AND STANDARDS LIST |
| | The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) attracts a variety of industry participants as members, including hardware and software companies, publishers, authors, users of electronic books, and related organizations whose common goals are to establish specifications and standards for electronic publishing. | | | The Forum seeks to foster the development of applications and products that will benefit creators of content, makers of reading systems and consumers. | | | The specification for the OpeneBook Publication Structure may be downloaded at: |
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/links/detail.php?ID=112
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| | International Digital Publishing Forum (formerly Open eBook Forum) |
| | Our members consist of academic, trade and professional publishers, hardware and software companies, digital content retailers, libraries, educational institutions, accessibility advocates and related organizations whose common goals are to advance the competitiveness and exposure of digital publishing. | | | The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), formerly the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), is the trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry. | | | Contribute to the IDPF eBook Statistics Program for Q1 and Q2 2005 |
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http://www.idpf.org
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| | NIST eBook 2000 Conference |
| | There are no mandated government standards for electronic books or for the electronic book industry. | | | Also, at the Washington meeting, the OeBF's Digital Rights Management Strategy Working Group released a draft of its "Framework for the ePublishing Ecology". | | | The document provides a systematic foundation for critical thinking, discussion, standards development, and it will be used to design future standards development and adoption criteria for OeB standards. |
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http://www.dclab.com/DCLTP.ASP?FN=nist
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| | ALA 06jan17 |
| | ALA is a member of the OeBF, and ALA's the e-Book Task Force has been actively working with the OeBF to see that e-Books are made available in ways that meet library and reader needs. | | | The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) is a standards and trade organization for the electronic publishing industry. | | | Steve Potash, OeBF President, and Rick Weingarten (Director of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy) who serves on the OeBF Board of Directors, will both be in attendance. |
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http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/washnews/20034/06jan17.htm
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| | DRM Strategies Conference & Expo, New York - July 27-28, 2005 |
| | Prior to leading the OeBF, Nick was President and Founder of Rightsworld, a digital clearinghouse for subsidiary rights in the book publishing industry. | | | Nick Bogaty is Executive Director of the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), the trade and standards organization for the digital publishing industries. | | | Under his leadership the OeBF has grown to 80 members representing major academic and trade publishers, technology companies, libraries, distance education companies, distributors and retailers. |
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http://www.jupiterevents.com/drm/fall05/bogaty.html
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| | OeBF Newsletter - Example |
| | In an unrelated move in August, Mike Segroves, Palm Digital Media Director of Business Development was elected to the OeBF Board of Directors by the OeBF membership. | | | In other RRWG news, the OeBF Board of Directors has elevated the OeBF Rights Grammar Requirements Document to the "Draft" status. | | | George Kerscher, Chairman of the OeBF Board of Directors, presented to the Association of American Publisher's Emerging Technology Committee on December 12th, 2002. |
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http://openebook.org/membership/sponsorships/newsletters/oebfnewsletter.htm
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| | The Handheld Librarian: OPAL: from Digital Audio to OEBF Ebook Conference Recap |
| | Handheld computer news, ideas, and opinions from librarians and others interested in libraries Email me(lbell927@yahoo.com) if you would like to contribute to this collaborative blog. | | | The Handheld Librarian: OPAL: from Digital Audio to OEBF Ebook Conference Recap | | | OPAL: from Digital Audio to OEBF Ebook Conference Recap |
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http://handheldlib.blogspot.com/2005/03/opal-from-digital-audio-to-oebf-ebook.html
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| | Potash also remarked that the concept of digitized texts initially failed because marketers looked to publishers and booksellers to generate interest when they should have concentrated on libraries. | | | The resurgence of interest in e-books, who uses them, and where the technology is headed were among the issues discussed March 16 at the eBooks in the Public Library Conference in New York, sponsored by the Open eBook Forum (OeBF). | | | Roughly 200 librarians, publishers, and vendors braved a winter squall to share their expertise and experiences. |
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http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&articleID=CA408338
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| | Caveat Lector » On fire! |
| | The ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) has gotten librarians involved in the Open Ebook Forum (OEBF) - a major standards player for electronic books. | | | While I was on the OEBF, I was not exactly a minor player. | | | There is also an ALA Ebook task force / committee led by Karen Coyle. |
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http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2002/07/31/on-fire
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| | OpenReader™ Consortium — Archive Article “OEBPS: The Universal Consumer eBook Format?” |
| | Unfortunately, OeBF has not yet developed such an OEBPS “wrapper” standard, and may not in the immediate future. | | | He helped co-author all three versions of the OEBPS specification (1.0, 1.0.1 and the current release 1.2) and is presently assisting PSWG in developing OEBPS 2.0. | | | The current membership of OeBF is given here. |
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http://www.openreader.org/OEBPS-UCF.html
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| | OeBF Hosts Public Library Confab for E-books |
| | "Millions of readers have free access to best-selling, popular book titles from the comfort of their homes and offices, courtesy of eBooks available from their public library Web site," said Nick Bogaty, executive director of the Open eBook Forum (OeBF), a consortium of e-book industry players that includes Adobe, Microsoft and Palm. | | | Copyright, fair use and Patriot Act issues relating to e-books. |
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http://www.ebook2u.com/ebooknews/OeBFHostsPublicLibraryConf.shtml
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| | LawMeme - Publishers Losing Big Money to Their DRM Fixation; Solution Proposed |
| | You can also learn about Microsoft and the Proprietary Format Promoters' Forum. | | | E-book maven Jon Noring, an OeBF participant, has a very specfic solution for the e-book-spec-setting group, complete with provisions for DRM. | | | LawMeme articles published after May 1, 2005 are subject to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 License. |
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http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1092
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| | exitview.com - oebf |
| | Find oebf at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! | | | Read about oebf in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. | | | Find the Best Sites For oebf With Starware |
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http://www.exitview.com/OeBF.aspx
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| | Batch Converter to LIT |
| | But I can't find an easy way to | | | So I can apparently easily convert LIT files to OEBF and the like. | | | Basically, an OEBF to LIT converter would be best. |
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http://www.news-reader.org/article.php?group=microsoft.public.pocketpc.ebooks&post_nr=6578
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| | STG Publications |
| | Renear, Allen H. "Literal Transcription -- Can the Text Ontologist Help?" In Computers, Literature and Philology, edited by Domenico Fiormonte and John Usher, Oxford, UK, 2001. | | | "Content Standards for Electronic Books: The OEBF Publication Structure and the Role of the Public Sector." In Journal of Library Administration, forthcoming. | | | "The OEBF Publication Structure." Salon de Livre/eBook, Paris, France, March 2001. |
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| | Tuesday Agenda Electronic Book 2001 |
| | Center for Library Initiatives "Is There an E-Text in this Class?: | | | The OeBF Business SIG discusses ePublishing business issues and plans activities that do not involve technical standards. | | | E-Learning: Advance to the Head of the Class (Continued |
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http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/ebook2001/agenda/TuesdayAgenda.html
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| | Converging Standards |
| | Multimedia requirements are being introduced to the OeBF for future specifications. | | | The DAISY Consortium is introducing their technology into the OeBF process and the OeB is listening. | | | The navigation model developed by DAISY is being adopted by the OeB in their next Publication Structure release (version 2) scheduled for release later this year. |
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http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/itaccess01/Presentations/Kerscher-presenation/tsld008.htm
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| | XPackage: RDF/XLink-based packaging format |
| | As the OEBF works on OEBPS 2.0, we're realizing that a more generalized packaging mechanism is necessary. | | | This is consistent with the aims of the W3C Packaging Working Group formed several years ago, which never received enough interest to be able to sustain its work. | | | The OEB Publication Structure Working group values any comments you may have about our current XPackage draft, and we would welcome anyone who wants to participate more closely with the OEBF as we complete this specification. |
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http://www.stylusstudio.com/xmldev/200111/post40740.html
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| | Cites & Insights 5:4 - Ebooks, Etext and PoD |
| | I don’t believe OeBF should count anything as an ebook unless it’s long enough so that a print version would be called a book rather than a pamphlet—which usually means 48 pages, I believe, with certain exceptions for illustrated children’s books. | | | It’s a start—but even the segments of print books that I believe should be ripe for ebook replacement (e.g., K12 and higher education textbooks, some reference works) represent a U.S. market at least 100 times as large. | | | Some folks really, truly want dedicated ebook readers—but not enough of them to make a legitimate market, at least not in the U.S. Most people interested in reading ebooks want to use etext on portable devices, a process made more difficult by the range of DRM issues. |
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http://cites.boisestate.edu/v5i4d.htm
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| | oebf |
| | Related keywords: conversion, xml, data conversion, data conversion laboratory, sgml, online, formats, ebook, e-book, oeb, open ebook, oebf, open ebook forum, ebx, electronic book exchange, e-text, etext, epublishing, e-publishing, digital rights, digital rights management, drm. | | | Description: Data Conversion and Document Conversion Service to XML, SGML, HTML and OeB from paper and electronic source formats such as Quark, Interleaf, FrameMaker and PageMaker |
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http://www.dackom.com/oebf.html
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| | Caveat Lector » Jenny 1, OEBF 0 |
| | The problem is, as it has been from the beginning with the OEBF, the paucity of book people. | | | The OEBPS was largely written by tech people; as I think I’ve said before, I was as close to a “book person” as the working group ever had, and that only by virtue of less than two years’ work at a publishing services company. | | | I have insufficient superlatives in my personal lexicon to get across adequately how right Jenny is about this. |
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http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2002/05/05/jenny-1-oebf-0
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