When you start building your own ebook collections from items in your community, you stop looking at them as licensed products and start seeing them as tools. In this talk I present the open source tools used to create The Community Cookbook website I created when I worked at Westlake Porter Public Library: http://cooking.westlakelibrary.org This presentation has been updated since the previous version. I wrote about this project for codelib. The article includes more technical details: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9911

1. EBOOKS WITHOUT
VENDORS
Using Open
Source Tools
to Create and
Share
Meaningful
Ebook
Collections

2. Who am I?
Matt Weaver
Systems Medical
Librarian –
Cleveland Clinic

3. Who am I?
Matt Weaver
Former
IT Manager -
Westlake Porter
Public Library

5. Not an alternative to Overdrive, ebrary,
3M, etc.

6. EBOOKS AS TOOLS
To be created by:
• the library
• the community
Opportunities for:
• collaboration
• connection

7. An Experiment: Library as
publisher

8. USAGE: late Oct. 2013 through
Jul. 2015
More than 2,000 ebook downloads
More than 60,000 recipes downloaded/printed
15% by cardholders

9. Costs:
Content: $0
Software licensing: $0
Staff time: 4-7 hours per ebook (estimated)
Mostly editing

10. An Experiment: Library as
publisher

11. SECURING
ACCESS TO
CONTENT

12. DIY: Copyright
Disclaimer:
I am not now, nor
have I ever been a
lawyer.
I am not a copyright
expert.
tap shoes

13. DIY: Copyright - Resources
 http://cocatalog.loc.gov/

14. DIY: Copyright - Resources
 http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page
?forward=home

15. Digital Copyright Slider
http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/
DIY: Copyright - Resources

16. Section 108 Spinner
http://librarycopyright.net/resources/spinner/
DIY: Copyright - Resources

17. Copyright Genie
http://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/
DIY: Copyright - Resources

18. Orphan Works
: http://bit.ly/1WRC8ck
“…the Copyright Office rejects the
idea that fair use can provide an
adequate solution [to the problem
of orphan works]”… Krista Cox,
Association of Research Libraries

19. DIY: Copyright
Because of digital distribution,
and
because the library does not own titles to
be digitized…
o no Fair Use case,
o no section 108 protections

20. Documention of
copyright
research
Content
Permission
agreements
DIY: Copyright

21. EBOOKS
DISSECTED
& DIGITIZED

22. ePub as zip file

23. ePub as zip file

24. ebook markup
HTML & CSS

25. Everything has been digitized,
right?
Bad OCR: hours, fractions
Scanned ≠ Digitized
Corrected
WPPL
Epub
page

26. Everything has been digitized,
right?
Curation/editing takes time.
Who else would invest such time?
Corrected
WPPL
Epub
page

27. PRODUCING
EBOOK
FILES

28. Homer ebook project
http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/40965440/FrontPage

29. Homer
The following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:
 ImageMagick (for manipulating images)
 Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation)
 JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images)
 Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition)
 RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language)
 Hpricot (HTML parser)
 RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language
and ImageMagick)
 Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF)
 Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer)
 ScanTailor (post-processing tool)
 Homer (command-line bash script)

30. Homer
The following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:
 ImageMagick (for manipulating images)
 Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation)
 JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images)
 Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition)
 RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language)
 Hpricot (HTML parser)
 RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language
and ImageMagick)
 Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF)
 Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer)
 ScanTailor (post-processing tool)
 Homer (command-line bash script)

31. Ebook
Production Workflow

32. Ebook
Production Workflow
or

33. Homer: ScanTailor
 Preprocess tiff-format
images of book pages
 Deskewing
 De-speckling
 Correcting warp
 Right-to-left language
support
 Outputs images for
Homer

34. Homer:
ScanTailor

35. Homer:
ScanTailor

36. OCR
challenges

37. HOMER BASH SCRIPT
It looks like
command-line…

38. HOMER BASH SCRIPT
but it’s drag-and-
drop!!!

39. Homer: tesseract-ocr
Optical Character
Recognition
Multilingual support -
From Afrikaans to
Vietnamese

40. Homer: pdfbeads
Outputs a searchable
PDF

41. Homer & pdfbeads
Outputs a searchable
PDF

42. Sigil
https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

43. Epub Validator
http://validator.idpf.org/

44. Calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com/

45. COMMUNITY
COOKBOOK
COOKING.WESTLAKELIBRARY.ORG

46. Drupal
 Open source
content
management
system
drupal.org

47. Drupal
Ability to create
custom fields for
metadata – can be
hidden from users
drupal.org

48. Drupal –
Controlling
Access
Private files
vs
public files
drupal.org

49. Drupal Controlling Access –
ILS authentication module

50. Drupal –
Controlling
Access
Taxonomy Control Lite
module: permissions based
on taxonomy terms
drupal.org

51. Drupal – Recipe module

52. 3 content
types:
•recipe
•ebook
•organization
 Drupal 7
 “Responsive”
layout

53. Drupal - Omega 3 Responsive
Theme

54. PHASE
TWO
(WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?)

55. Drupal – ePub module

56. Drupal – ePub module

57. Drupal – PDF module

58. Drupal – HTML import module

59. Merging Content

60. The Community Cookbook –
mapping

61. Bonus:
Capturing Original Content
…with one more open-source tool, we can
even help them design print versions:

62. Bonus:
Capturing Original Content
We can do everything but the printing.

63. Further Reading
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9911

64. Further Reading
 Jarret Buse Epub from
the Ground UP:A Hands-
on Guide to EPUB2 and
EPUB3
 Excellent guide to the
guts of ebooks
 Features many of the
open-source programs I
have discussed
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837954536

65. Further Reading
Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use – Charts and Tools
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts-and-tools/

66. mattrweaver

67. Image credits
Open Source Sign Timothy Appnel -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tappnel/5798812875/
“Librarian from Turn of the Century” -
http://www.moyak.com/researcher/Clients/male_librarians/ind
ex.html?id=34
Ereaders - Michael Porter
https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5052936803/
Apples & oranges http://mrg.bz/n1xLHg
Techno_background2.jpg (ones and zeroes)
http://www.morguefile.com/creative/Grafixar
Ricoh Copier:
http://www.itinstock.com/ekmps/shops/itinstock/images/ricoh-
aficio-mp-4001-fast-photocopier-copier-printer-scan-fax-5598-
p.jpg