1. What Next?
In Digital Publishing
陳啟亮 xxc.chen@gmail.com 2005-10-07 NTNU.資訊學研究所.數位出版研究

2. What is digital
publishing ?
For scientific publishing
For commercial publishing
For casual publishing, for entertainment
etc…
Digital publishing is not only digital book publishing.

4. The Internet
(1980s)
Net before INTERNET:
ARPANET (1950s)
Usenet (1980) (protocol: NNTP)
TCP/IP (1984) (first TCP/IP network : NSFnet)
IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, PPP, SLIP, ICMP, POP3, IMAP,
SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, SSL,
and TLS.

5. The WWW
(1990s)
world wide web
URI - Uniform Resource Identifier (IP, DNS)
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Web server,
Web browser)
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

6. XML, PDF,
DOI, &
Unicode
(1980-1990)

8. Personal
Computer
(1987) (2005)

9. E-books
Electronic books
Digital books
Networked books
…

10. DRM
Digital Rights Management

11. Linking
Hyperlink
XLink

12. Metadata
Data about data

13. (1999)
JDF
Job Definition Format
XML

14. Digital printing

15. Broadband

16. Accessibility
Make web content accessible to disabilities
Whatever using any agent (e.g., desktop browser,
voice browser, mobile phone, automobile-based
personal computer, etc.)
Wherever using (e.g., noisy surroundings, under-
or over-illuminated rooms, in a hands-free
environment, etc.).

17. (2003 perspective)

18. The Semantic
Web
To make web more smart.
RDF, OWL
RDF is everywhere (e.g., RSS, JPG from Photoshop
CS, XMP)
Vocabulary structure is everywhere (e.g., DC)

19. (2002)
Web Service
SOAP, XML-RPC, JAX-RPC: (Between client &
service provider)
(Simple Object Access Protocol, XML-Remote Procedure Call, Java API XML-RPC)
XML: (Information Object)
WSDL: (tell How to using WS) (web service description language)
UDDI: (Service broker) (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)

20. (2001)
XSL-FO
XSL: eXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT: (語言轉換) (eXtensible Stylesheet
Language Transformations)
XSL-FO: (視覺呈現) (XSL Formatting Object)
XPath: (XML Path Language)

21. E-Paper

22. (2001)
XMP
eXtensible Metadata Platform
By Adobe
It provides a way to embed metadata right in the
binary files associated with specific applications.

23. (2001)
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics
XML, describing 2D vector graphic.

24. Taxonomies
The structure information about a publication.
To describe the taxonomy information inside a
publication.

25. Mapping
information
information visualization information

26. Dog Years
Bubble or Bible

27. (1995) (ubiquitous publishing)
CMS, Wiki,
collaborative publish
Web publishing
Collaborative CMS
Version Control

28. (1997, 2003) (ubiquitous publishing)
Personal Publish:
Weblog
Market: Weblog Inc. (AOL: $25 million; Oct-05’),
Weblogs.com (VeriSign: $2.3 millions; Oct-05’)
To Define Weblog:
Tool perspective – CMS ; RSS, Trackback, XML-RPC,
permalink
Behavior perspective -

29. (1997, 2003)
Citizen
journalism
Personal web publishing: Website, CMS, Blog
South Korea, Ohmynews.com 2004 (founded 2000)
Taiwan, 明日報 (Ttimes)
其他批評
Media role transformation

30. (2004) (ubiquitous publishing)
Podcasting
Not only tool,
Accessibility solution
Videocasting, screencasting, etc…

31. (2003-) (semantic web & taxonomy)
Folksonomy
Folks + taxonomy
Categorization and social network
Del.icio.us, Flickr, 43Things, LibraryThing, Read2,
etc…

32. (2003-) (metadata & semantic web)
Microformat
Based on XHTML & CSS
First microformat is XFN (XHTML Friends Network)
hCard, hCalendar, VoteLinks, hReview, XFN,
relLicence, relTag, XOXO, etc…

33. (2006?) (metadata & semantic web)
XHTML 2.0
Based on XHTML & CSS
Mixed up metadata and semantic web

34. (2006?) (semantic web & taxonomy)
SKOS
(simple knowledge organisaztion
system)
porting (“Webifying”) thesauri:
classifications, glossaries, thesauri, etc. (e.g., DDC)
as developed in the “Print World”

35. (2005)
Findability
Enormous indexing: Google Print
Morville, Peter (2005). Ambient Findability

36. Publish /pub’lish/ (v.t.)
1. To make known or announce publicly;
promulgate; proclaim.
2. To print and issue to the public.
3. [Law] To communicate to a third person.
4. To print and issue the work of
-- Webster comprehensive dictionary