What Will the History Textbook of the Future Look Like? | NeilSchlager.com I was recently interviewed by an industry analyst for Outsell about the higher education textbook industry. One of the things we discussed was where the textbook is going. Here are some of the elements I identified in that discussion, at least as they relate to history textbooks: It will be native digital. What about Price? In the past few years, there has been a lot of time and money spent on the creation of free, open textbooks (or OER, for “open educational resources”) from companies like Flat World Knowledge and nonprofits like OpenStax. However, I feel that experimental digital textbook services of the future are more likely to come from for-profit entities, given the investment needed and the longer-term commitment required to improve and enhance the services over time. When Will the Future Arrive? As the creator of Milestone Documents, a service that is built suspiciously close to the specs listed above (imagine that!) Still, we are far from alone in working in this area.
Cyberlibris Office 2007 - Wo speichert Outlook 2007 meine Daten? Wo speichert Outlook 2007 meine Daten? Microsoft stellt auf der Microsoft Office Online-Website ein Liste welche alle Speicherorte beinhaltet. Die folgende Liste beinhaltet Speicherorte, an denen Informationen von Outlook 2007 gespeichert werden. Einige Ordner sind möglicherweise verborgene Ordner. Windows XP und Windows Vista Klicken Sie auf Start und anschließend auf Arbeitsplatz.Klicken Sie im Menü Extras auf Ordneroptionen.Klicken Sie auf die Registerkarte Ansicht und anschließend auf die Option Alle Dateien und Ordner anzeigen. Ihre Konfiguration schließt möglicherweise nicht alle der folgenden Dateien ein. Persönliche Ordner-Datei (PST) Windows XP/2003 -> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Benutzer\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\Microsoft\OutlookWindows Vista -> C:\Benutzer\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook Offlineordnerdatei (OST) Persönliches Adressbuch (PAB) Hinweis: Persönliche Adressbücher (PAB) werden von Office Outlook 2007 nicht mehr unterstützt. Offlineadressbuch (OAB)
ReadWrite is Wrong: Pay-As-You-Read E-Bookselling Does Work Have you caught the post on Read Write today about TotalBoox? If you have not read it, don’t bother. The article is wrong, and I can show you why. In that article the author, Antone Gonsalves, argues that the pay-as-you-read startup TotalBoox won’t amount to anything. The tl;dr version is: readers won’t want to pay a fractional price for a fractional book,publishers also won’t want to receive a fractional payment for that fractional read, andthe average ebook price is too low to make this a viable business model That is a compelling argument – except for the fact it is at best only half true. If pay-as-you-read isn’t a viable business model then someone forgot to tell PaperC. If you’re not familiar with PaperC, let me offer some background on how they operate. Visitors can browse the PaperC website without having to register. I won’t go through the entire flowchart (you can find out more here), but I will note that PaperC sells by the chapter and page. How exactly does that model not work?
Study: It's Easier (For Some) to Read on LCD Screens Than in a Paper Book I have long held the position that LCD screens aren’t as evil as everyone claims, and that the belief that E-ink is better for you eyes is a myth. Now there is new evidence that reading on an LCD screen device like the iPad or Kindle Fire might actually take less mental effort. A team of researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, have recently published a paper which shows that in spite of claims to the contrary, it was easier for a test group to read on an LCD screen. What’s more, the test group also showed approximately the same retention of the reading material, no amter whether they read on LCD, an ereader, or on paper. Dr. The test subjects were strapped into a rig that tracked their eye movements and measured their brain waves using an EEG (electroencephalogram) machine. The results were mixed, and I’m not sure I would place the same emphasis on them as the research team did. Interesting, no? paper source
Text Encoding Initiative Official logo The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a text-centric community of practice in the academic field of digital humanities, operating continuously since the 1980s. The community currently runs a mailing list, meetings and conference series, and maintains an eponymous technical standard, a wiki, a SourceForge repository and a toolchain. The TEI Guidelines[edit] The TEI Guidelines, which collectively define an XML format, are the defining output of the community of practice. Technical Details[edit] The standard is split into two parts, a discursive textual description with extended examples and discussion and set of tag-by-tag definitions. A number of special tags are used to circumvent restrictions imposed by the underlying Unicode; glyph to allow representation of characters that don't qualify for Unicode inclusion[6] and choice to allow overcome the required strict linearity.[7] TEI Lite is an XML-based file format for exchanging texts. Examples[edit] Prose tags[edit] Verse[edit]
Dublin Core The Dublin Core Schema is a small set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources (video, images, web pages, etc.), as well as physical resources such as books or CDs, and objects like artworks.[1] The full set of Dublin Core metadata terms can be found on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) website.[2] The original set of 15 classic[3] metadata terms, known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set[4] are endorsed in the following standards documents: IETF RFC 5013[5]ISO Standard 15836-2009[6]NISO Standard Z39.85[7] Dublin Core Metadata may be used for multiple purposes, from simple resource description, to combining metadata vocabularies of different metadata standards, to providing interoperability for metadata vocabularies in the Linked Data cloud and Semantic Web implementations. Background[edit] Levels of the standard[edit] The Dublin Core standard originally includes two levels: Simple and Qualified. [edit] Example of code[edit] [edit] Syntax[edit] See also[edit]
mattharrison/epub-css-starter-kit Threepress Consulting blog What We Can Do with “Books” (Liza Daly) Liza Daly is Vice President of Engineering at Safari Books Online. Previously, she was owner of Threepress Consulting, where she provided strategy and software for publishers, authors, and vendors. In 2008, she developed Bookworm, one of the first open-source EPUB readers, and in February of 2010 released Ibis Reader™, the first HTML5 ebook platform. Liza is on the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. You can find Liza on Twitter at: @liza. You can do a lot of things with a paper book. But what can you do with a digital book? In the nascent electronic book era, much of the discussion covers what you can’t do. Many of these limitations have nothing to do with the intrinsic qualities of a digital book, but are instead a reflection of the difficult transition between an old, established medium and a new, to-date undeveloped one. Ebooks do not have to be mere simulacra of printed works. The Opportunity to Upgrade Upgrading Pride and Prejudice Participate Explore