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Derik Dupont

Survey Finds Slack Standards at Magazine Web Sites - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A survey conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review found that magazines' Web sites reflect a trade-off of standards for online speed.
Kristen Iovino

Learning Resource Metadata Initiative | (LRMI) - 0 views

shared by Kristen Iovino on 28 Nov 11 - No Cached
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    LRMI effort to establish metadata standards for educational publishers.
Rebecca Benner

Society for Scholarly Publishing - 2008 Fall Seminars - 0 views

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    Seminars offered by SSP in November. See especially "E-journal publishing: A critical review of emerging standards and practice" (Nov 19).
Helen Nam

Technology Review: Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth - 0 views

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    Interesting article about how Wikipedia relies on verifiability, not truth.
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    This article discusses Wikipedia's standard -- not truth, but verifiability.
arnie Grossblatt

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, Ato... - 1 views

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    Good stuff on technology and standards "failures". Has XML on the Web been a failure?  What does HTML5 mean for XHTML?
arnie Grossblatt

A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books - 1 views

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    On bringing design to e-books.
Thelisha Woods

Reinventing the Magazine: Publications That Push the Boundaries of the Print Medium - W... - 0 views

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    Some publications are looking beyond the standard glossy format to experiment with ideas of what a magazine can be."
arnie Grossblatt

With a Little Help: New York, Meet Silicon Valley - 3 views

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    Cory Doctorow on what publishers can learn from Silicon Valley.
Mark Schreiber

What's at Stake for Consumers in Today's News Trust Gap? - 1 views

  • In 1985, most people (55%) had confidence in the news they saw. Today, less than a 1/3 (29%) think "journalists" get their facts right.
  • NewsCertified provides the foundation for the systems and standards that will help shape digital expert credentials for the media industry, for the experts in diverse industries and most importantly for consumers
arnie Grossblatt

Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export - 3 views

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    The creation EPUB books just got a lot easier.
arnie Grossblatt

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - 1 views

  • that's what you'll get.
    • arnie Grossblatt
       
      and that's what you deserve.
  • you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
  • Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries.
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    Powerful criticism of GBS and its mishandling of metadata.
Matt Mayer

Newest Aptara Survey Charts Changes in E-book Market - 0 views

shared by Matt Mayer on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
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    Aptara Corp.'s third annual e-book survey of book publishers found a rapid increase in sales and title output, especially among trade houses, but questions still need to be resolved about e-readers, formats, and standards.
Erin Barrett

Open Publishing Distribution System -- an Open-Standards Catalog Format - Tools of Chan... - 0 views

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    O'Reilly champions Stanza
arnie Grossblatt

Open Publishing Lab - 1 views

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    Interesting research center at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Too bad they don't have an RSS feed.
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