Morrison Ebook as Scholarly Work in Ephemeral Medium
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This presentation was provided by Alistair Morrison of Elsevier during the NISO Virtual Conference on Ebooks, held on October 5, 2016
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Morrison Ebook as Scholarly Work in Ephemeral Medium
- 1. The eBook as a Scholarly Work in an Ephemeral Medium A Publisher’s Perspective on Migrating Content from Print to Electronic Format Alistair Morrison October 5, 2016
- 2. | 2 Alistair Morrison a.morrison@elsevier.com Senior ScienceDirect Product Manager for Books I’m speaking for myself, not Elsevier. Introductions
- 3. | 3 SOCRATES: I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want to know anything and put a question to one of them, the speaker always gives one unvarying answer … and they cannot protect or defend themselves. Is there not another kind of word or speech far better than this, and having far greater power … an intelligent word graven in the soul of the learner, which can defend itself, and knows when to speak and when to be silent. PHAEDRUS: You mean the living word of knowledge which has a soul, and of which the written word is properly no more than an image? SOCRATES: Yes, of course that is what I mean. Plato’s Phaedrus 275d3-276a9. Jowett translation. Philosophical Excursion
- 4. | 4 The “Reference Module” Project • Exploit the strengths of the online medium to solve the fundamental weakness of printed reference works, namely, they are out of date • Create an E-first publishing workflow • What we thought would happened and what happened Is an Online Book an Oxymoron?
- 5. | 5 Encyclopedia Editions Reference Module + Encyclopedia Old Workflow New Workflow 1st Edition Continuous Revisions & Additions 2nd Edition 2nd Edition 3rd Edition 1st Edition
- 6. | 6 The “Research Reference” Project • Slicing and dicing book content • Using Natural Language Processing and lots of taxonomy • Just the piece of information you need • And the reassurance that it came from a book Online Books Can Be Better Than Print
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- 8. | 8 Things you might have missed • Acquisitions editors • Editors and Editors in Chief • Collaborative projects of fixed duration Are Books and Publishers Necessary?
- 9. | 9 • Bigger role for EPUB3 • Personalized and socialized books • A solid concept of an scholarly eBook shared by publishers, libraries, and researchers Aspirations
- 10. The End