Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books. The e-book conversation so far has been dominated by concerns over the market share and intentions of Amazon, and, in the library world, whether libraries can license access to frontlist e-books from the major publishers, and if they can, at what price, under what terms, and through which intermediary. But there is a greater, long-term concern with the way our e-book future is shaping up—preservation. As the e-book market develops on a licensed-access model, librarians caution that we are tumbling toward a digital memory hole in which large portions of our literary heritage could one day be lost altogether.
They cite a host of difficulties in keeping digital content safe, usable, authentic, accessible, and discoverable, owing to a matrix of legal questions, format issues, digital rights management problems, and a fractured business ecosystem driven by proprietary platforms. Owning the Future Some publishers do offer “perpetual access” to “purchased” content. Hope Action. E-Books and the Challenge of Preservation. Next section in this report >> | previous section >> | report contents >> Frank Romano Rochester Institute of Technology Introduction The concept of electronic publishing was first articulated by Vannevar Bush of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the seminal 1945 article "As We May Think.
" In 1991, Apple Computer introduced Jurassic Park as an electronic book for its Powerbook 100 laptop using the Adobe Acrobat portable document format (PDF). In 1998, the Rocket E-book was introduced, and in 1999, Simon & Schuster and Stephen King published an electronic novella that could be read on any Internet browser on virtually any computer, or downloaded to certain e-book devices. For the foreseeable future, most e-publishing will involve scientific, technical, professional, and academic information, as well as some original fiction. The trend toward electronic publishing has been based on factors such as the following: Definitions The word "e-book" is actually a misnomer. APARSEN-REP-D31_1-01-1_4.pdf (Objet application/pdf) May 23: Ensuring the Preservation of E-books. NISO Two-Part Webinar: Understanding Critical Elements of E-books: Acquiring, Sharing, and Preserving Part 2: Heritage Lost?
Ensuring the Preservation of E-books May 23, 2012 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) Part 1 of this webinar will be held on May 16: Part 1: Can I Access the World? Involving Users in E-book Acquisition and Sharing Register for both webinars and save 25%! About the Webinar The second part of this series will examine initiatives to ensure the long-term preservation of the digital book content being developed and distributed today.
Agenda IntroductionTodd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO We're Preserving the Past, What About the Present? HathiTrust is a broad collaboration of academic and research libraries that are working to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of the cultural record. File Format Considerations in the Preservation of e-Books Sheila Morrissey, Senior Research Developer, Portico Registration Registration Costs SAVE! Additional Information. Ebooks: what do we care (for)? Last Friday I ran a workshop at the BL trying to identify what I guess we might call significant properties of ebooks. This is to inform requirements for ebook characteristation tools developed as part of SCAPE and also help inform BL staff involved in ebook ingest projects.
To this end I wasn't just interested in the theoretically interesting features that anyone can get excited about - and there are plenty of interesting things about ebooks - but rather what properties of ebooks where really important for the BL's core business. (In DP speak, the significant properties of ebooks as defined by the designated community of the Britsh Library!) For this workshop we only invited Collections staff from non-technical backgrounds. It was suggested that we re-run it for other communities within the BL - collection content groups and developers perhaps.
What struck me during this session was how much the device featured in the discussions. Interactivity - were book meets computer game - e.g. Fea_kirchhoff.pdf (Objet application/pdf)