Patricia Payton of Bowker amplifies on a portion of the metadata conversation: search engine optimization. She will help new epublishers understand the tricks of anticipating how your content will be discovered and making sure that it is carrying the tagging that will make searches in Google and other search engines return your book as an option when they should.
The Quick And Dirty Guide To Creating Blog Posts That Your Audience CravesDominique Jackson
You've been reading about the importance of blogging for a long time. You might have started out with a blog post every now and then, but never got any traction. Most people fail at blogging because they're creating the wrong type of content.
This presentation will show you how to create blog posts that your target audience CRAVES and is STARVING for. The type of content that people look for when they're further into the buying process. And the best part? It's just a simple 3 step process!
The SlideShare 101 is a quick start guide if you want to walk through the main features that the platform offers. This will keep getting updated as new features are launched.
The SlideShare 101 replaces the earlier "SlideShare Quick Tour".
How ebooks Have Changed the Print Book Marketplace
Jonathan Nowell heads Nielsen Book. Their Bookscan service tracks sales of books and ebooks in the US, the UK, and other markets around the world.
In this presentation, Nowell will look back over a decade or more of Nielsen book sales data to tell us how the print world has changed. It is accepted fact now that ebooks work commercially for narrative books, but not so well for reference and illustrated books. What that means by category is the focus of Nowell's presentation. He will tell us both how the proportion of print and ebook sales break down in various categories, but also will show how the share of printed books has changed across categories as ebooks have taken hold in the marketplace. The data from Nowell will indicate to us what bookstores might look like in the future as the mainstay sales of bestselling authors move increasingly to digital.
Founder of Children’s Tech Review and host of the Dust or Magic Institute, Warren Buckleitner knows the ins and outs of children’s apps, ebooks, and digital games. Children’s Tech Review offers some of the best and highest quality ongoing trends reporting in the children's digital app space. Warren will explain what works and what’s next in children’s digital technology.
PlayCollective is a global research and strategy group focused on the impact of changing media and technology on education and entertainment for children and families. For the last two years, PlayCollective has also partnered with Digital Book World to track the growth of e-reading among families with children ages 2-13 and parents’ increasing belief in the beneficial power of ebooks. Join David Kleeman, PlayVangelist for PlayCollective, to get some insight on how parents', teachers', and kids' attitudes toward digital media are changing and what today's brands and tech companies are integrating into their products and content for both the home and the classroom.
In this presentation at Launch Kids, Jonathan Nowell of Nielsen Book will examine the data his company has developed about the habits and preferences of younger readers and children's book buyers. He will offer insight about the consumption habits of younger readers with some thoughtful speculation about how children's book buying is changing over time (across formats and channels) and why young people today continue to remain attached to the printed book.
The growth of digital devices, digital reading, and online purchasing is opening up new opportunities for publishers around the world, and this is particularly true in the classroom environment. Shane Armstrong, Executive Vice President of Scholastic Corporation and President of International Growth Markets, will present an overview of Scholastic’s big plans for global educational publishing, especially in the core areas of math and reading. He’ll talk about new opportunities with assessment, how ancillary products support Scholastic’s goals, and how trade pubs can take advantage of an increasingly global (and increasingly digital) education market.
Nielsen regularly tracks the children’s book consumer market through its BookScan data and on-going consumer surveys. In this presentation, they’ll look at trends in book buying behaviors among parents and kids – and help publishers understand what that means for the future of both print and digital children’s book sales.
The Quick And Dirty Guide To Creating Blog Posts That Your Audience CravesDominique Jackson
You've been reading about the importance of blogging for a long time. You might have started out with a blog post every now and then, but never got any traction. Most people fail at blogging because they're creating the wrong type of content.
This presentation will show you how to create blog posts that your target audience CRAVES and is STARVING for. The type of content that people look for when they're further into the buying process. And the best part? It's just a simple 3 step process!
The SlideShare 101 is a quick start guide if you want to walk through the main features that the platform offers. This will keep getting updated as new features are launched.
The SlideShare 101 replaces the earlier "SlideShare Quick Tour".
How ebooks Have Changed the Print Book Marketplace
Jonathan Nowell heads Nielsen Book. Their Bookscan service tracks sales of books and ebooks in the US, the UK, and other markets around the world.
In this presentation, Nowell will look back over a decade or more of Nielsen book sales data to tell us how the print world has changed. It is accepted fact now that ebooks work commercially for narrative books, but not so well for reference and illustrated books. What that means by category is the focus of Nowell's presentation. He will tell us both how the proportion of print and ebook sales break down in various categories, but also will show how the share of printed books has changed across categories as ebooks have taken hold in the marketplace. The data from Nowell will indicate to us what bookstores might look like in the future as the mainstay sales of bestselling authors move increasingly to digital.
Founder of Children’s Tech Review and host of the Dust or Magic Institute, Warren Buckleitner knows the ins and outs of children’s apps, ebooks, and digital games. Children’s Tech Review offers some of the best and highest quality ongoing trends reporting in the children's digital app space. Warren will explain what works and what’s next in children’s digital technology.
PlayCollective is a global research and strategy group focused on the impact of changing media and technology on education and entertainment for children and families. For the last two years, PlayCollective has also partnered with Digital Book World to track the growth of e-reading among families with children ages 2-13 and parents’ increasing belief in the beneficial power of ebooks. Join David Kleeman, PlayVangelist for PlayCollective, to get some insight on how parents', teachers', and kids' attitudes toward digital media are changing and what today's brands and tech companies are integrating into their products and content for both the home and the classroom.
In this presentation at Launch Kids, Jonathan Nowell of Nielsen Book will examine the data his company has developed about the habits and preferences of younger readers and children's book buyers. He will offer insight about the consumption habits of younger readers with some thoughtful speculation about how children's book buying is changing over time (across formats and channels) and why young people today continue to remain attached to the printed book.
The growth of digital devices, digital reading, and online purchasing is opening up new opportunities for publishers around the world, and this is particularly true in the classroom environment. Shane Armstrong, Executive Vice President of Scholastic Corporation and President of International Growth Markets, will present an overview of Scholastic’s big plans for global educational publishing, especially in the core areas of math and reading. He’ll talk about new opportunities with assessment, how ancillary products support Scholastic’s goals, and how trade pubs can take advantage of an increasingly global (and increasingly digital) education market.
Nielsen regularly tracks the children’s book consumer market through its BookScan data and on-going consumer surveys. In this presentation, they’ll look at trends in book buying behaviors among parents and kids – and help publishers understand what that means for the future of both print and digital children’s book sales.
These publishers share details about their newly launched products, partnerships, imprints and ventures. Both relatively new and long established children’s publishers will discuss how they’ve built their companies and retooled their strategies for a more digital future.
Publishers are following their customers into mobile as handheld devices take over, developing new strategies to extend print and digital products into the mobile space. This panel will review the latest data about mobile usage among kids and will discuss the impact of mobile on how children’s book consumers find, buy, and interact with books and book-related content.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI is the author of nineteen books for tweens, teens and adults, including the upcoming DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT from Random House, theWhatever After series from Scholastic, TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE) from HarperCollins, SEE JANE WRITE: A GIRL’S GUIDE TO WRITING CHICK LIT from Quirk and MILKRUN from Harlequin. Her books have more than 3 million copies in print, and have been translated into twenty-seven languages and optioned to Hollywood. Sarah started her career in the marketing department of Harlequin, and has embraced every sort of social media tool – from her own website to Instagram, Wattpad, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, Google Plus, and even, once upon a time, MySpace. You can visit her at http://www.sarahm.com or find her at @SarahMlynowski.
Insight Strategy Group provides research and consulting services to big brands and media companies. CEO Stacey Matthias will take a look at general kids' digital media trends and how books fit into larger digital ecosystem. She'll look at how, when, where kids are consuming their books, games, movies, and video; and she’ll examine how child development impacts media consumption at each stage, and the role of books at each level.
Eric Huang, formerly at Disney, Penguin, and Mind Candy, now works with all manner of kids' brand owners and creators of IP – from publishers to broadcasters to museums and film studios – helping them build forward-thinking digital strategies and multi-format/multi-media approaches to brand development. Eric has seen licensing, franchising, and brand development from all angles, and he will help book publishers better understand both the business of buying licenses to publish books and the business of selling licenses to make product from powerful book brands.
Reaching a Global Audience of Readers -- Presented by Allen Lau, CEO and Co-Founder, Wattpad
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
Wattpad has a fast-growing user base of over 15 million members, including readers and emerging writers from the English-speaking world as well as from Spain, Mexico, Germany, the Philippines, Vietnam, the BRIC countries, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere around the globe. Wattpad will describe how some pioneering publishers are using the Wattpad platform as a marketing tool: building author-reader connections, publishing original short stories and prequels within existing series, and creating direct relationships with an increasingly global audience that buys their ebooks. And they'll point to the major markets where their user base is growing quickly, like Germany.
Digital Publishing in the Developing World -- Presented by Octavio Kulesz, Director, Editorial Teseo - Alliance Lab
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
Octavio Kulesz studies the world’s emerging markets: China, India, Russia, Africa, and Latin America. In this quick summary, he will tell us what we can expect to see as they develop into real ebook markets in the near future. How do local players and cultural differences change the game for publishers hoping to find new readers? Where can we expect to see the biggest breakthroughs soonest? How should publishers approach new business partnerships in these markets?
Data-Driven Publishing: Using Big Data and smart analysis to make better decisions across the business -- Presented by Ken Brooks, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
With more data from more internal and external sources available to publishers than ever before, and with ever-more powerful tools and service providers to crunch them, it is incumbent on C-level executives to build Big Data capabilities into their organizations. The possibilities, and the imperatives, will be the topic for Ken Brooks, who has held senior management positions at Bantam Doubleday Dell, Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble, and Cengage, and is both a master of data and experienced with all kinds of publishing.
Although there are service providers to do Big Data crunching, and any publisher might use them for some challenges, Brooks believes that learning to use available tools routinely will become a necessary skill set in most publishing houses. He says the key is to become more “data-driven” in analysis and decision-making, because data-driven decisions are possible in more ways than ever before and because publishing is particularly amenable to improvement through the skilled use of data.
Brooks also points out that routine Big Data analysis will become increasingly accurate and beneficial over time. He believes it is an emerging competitive tool of great importance and that the companies that get it soonest will gain great advantage. In this presentation, he will give publishers ideas about how to use Big Data across their enterprise: marketing, editorial, operations, and finance.
Hachette Book Group has rebuilt their own digital infrastructure in the past several years to leverage the advantages of scale — scale which they believe can be achieved through efficiency as well as through size. Under the leadership of Ken Michaels, President and COO of Hachette and Chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the company is focused on better providing value to authors by investing in services, capabilities, and agility, rather than relying strictly on volume and size.
Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis in London tracks the big companies that manage so much of the environment and ecosystem in which publishers operate. In this presentation, he will review the strategies of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, with a special focus on the aspects of their activities that affect book publishers. Then Evans will talk about how publishers can best take advantage of the opportunities these companies make available while avoiding the pitfalls of dancing with partners who dwarf the publishing industry—let alone any single player—in size.
In several short years, F+W Media has built its thriving ecommerce business to revenues in the tens of millions. Economies of scale have made this possible. David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO will share how applying a single strategy to its direct-to-consumer ecommerce business has benefitted even the Company’s narrowest communities through increased efficiencies and shared resources. By focusing on creating best practices to serve its largest six communities and by deploying a centralized service model, two dozen of its smaller sub-communities have achieved greater reach and growing revenues. Hear from Nussbaum and learn how economies of scale make ecommerce success possible for publishing companies of any size.
Linda Leonard and Sonia Nash Gupta will present about teen list destination RandomBuzzers.com. They will talk about the importance of creating content that engages readers and draws in new members as well as how they are evolving and amplifying members' interests while promoting RH titles and authors.
In conjunction with Kristen McLean of Bookigee and leading US children’s book publishers, Bowker has tracked the children’s book consumer market through their ongoing biannual study, Understanding the Children’s Book Consumer in the Digital Age. This consumer survey looks at trends in book discovery, consumption, and buying behaviors among parents, teachers, and kids of all ages. They will reveal the latest data from the study, with special attention paid this year to price sensitivity and value perception across devices and channels, as well as to the adult crossover market for YA titles.
The data presentation will be followed by a panel conversation among the participating publishers. They will discuss the implications of the data for the publishing industry and what children’s book publishers should be doing to continue to reach their audience in the digital age.
Important changes to copyright law are being made by governments and in courtrooms around the world changes that can have a direct impact on the business of publishing and the ways in which content is licensed and used outside the country whose legislature or court took action. Michael Healy, formerly the head of the Book Industry Study and Group and the Book Rights Registry, is now Executive Director at Copyright Clearance Center, the leading global provider of content and licensing solutions.
In this talk, Healy reviews recent copyright developments around the world and some that are pending and explain how business-critical their implications are for publishers and users everywhere.
Rebecca Smart is the CEO of Osprey Group, which began as a military specialist publisher but is rapidly expanding into other verticals. When they bought the fledgling sci-fi imprint Angry Robot from HarperCollins, Smart remarked at the time that military buffs love science fiction. They also own two businesses publishing for the UK heritage market, Shire and Old House. Recently they acquired the UK publisher Duncan Baird, which owns a substantial and long-standing religion imprint called Watkins as well as a list with many mind body spirit books and titles in food and health. That gives Osprey at least two more vertical areas to work in and a start on some others. In this presentation, Smart describes Osprey's vertical strategy and discusses how what Osprey has learned and developed for its original market of military buffs benefits them in other areas far afield from where they started.
Yuvi Kochar, the CTO of the Washington Post holding company, is delivering diverse ERP and SaaS solutions as a streamlined and well-defined set of technology services. The Shared IT Services team is providing services to the different businesses the Washington Post newspaper and Kaplan education, among others, that his holding company owns. He will discuss the service model, organization structure and the technology architecture the Post has developed to ensure success of this new IT services delivery model. His team has to vet the solutions, enable their distribution, and do all that being mindful of how things will look (and work) a level removed from the solution provider.
Handling permissions is one of the most labor-intensive and low-revenue tasks in any publishing house. But new cloud services provide automation and efficiency to make small licensing transactions less onerous and more remunerative. Alfredo Santana, Associate Director of Global Rights Operations at John Wiley & Sons will share how Copyright Clearance Centers RightsLink service has freed up staff time, improved workflow, and increased permissions revenue for the publisher.
Book retailing is in a dynamic period where sales are moving from brick stores to online channels. That's partly driven by the switch of immersive reading to digital; it's also driven by the reduction of shelf space. There is anecdotal evidence suggesting that stores are shifting their attention to books that need to be seen and touched to be purchased: adult illustrated books and children's books. And those books are the very books that have not benefited proportionately from the growth of digital book consumption. In this presentation, Ingram Book Company will share data about recent shifts in online and print sales and insight into how retail outlets are shifting their stock and trade.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
These publishers share details about their newly launched products, partnerships, imprints and ventures. Both relatively new and long established children’s publishers will discuss how they’ve built their companies and retooled their strategies for a more digital future.
Publishers are following their customers into mobile as handheld devices take over, developing new strategies to extend print and digital products into the mobile space. This panel will review the latest data about mobile usage among kids and will discuss the impact of mobile on how children’s book consumers find, buy, and interact with books and book-related content.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI is the author of nineteen books for tweens, teens and adults, including the upcoming DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT from Random House, theWhatever After series from Scholastic, TEN THINGS WE DID (AND PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE) from HarperCollins, SEE JANE WRITE: A GIRL’S GUIDE TO WRITING CHICK LIT from Quirk and MILKRUN from Harlequin. Her books have more than 3 million copies in print, and have been translated into twenty-seven languages and optioned to Hollywood. Sarah started her career in the marketing department of Harlequin, and has embraced every sort of social media tool – from her own website to Instagram, Wattpad, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, Google Plus, and even, once upon a time, MySpace. You can visit her at http://www.sarahm.com or find her at @SarahMlynowski.
Insight Strategy Group provides research and consulting services to big brands and media companies. CEO Stacey Matthias will take a look at general kids' digital media trends and how books fit into larger digital ecosystem. She'll look at how, when, where kids are consuming their books, games, movies, and video; and she’ll examine how child development impacts media consumption at each stage, and the role of books at each level.
Eric Huang, formerly at Disney, Penguin, and Mind Candy, now works with all manner of kids' brand owners and creators of IP – from publishers to broadcasters to museums and film studios – helping them build forward-thinking digital strategies and multi-format/multi-media approaches to brand development. Eric has seen licensing, franchising, and brand development from all angles, and he will help book publishers better understand both the business of buying licenses to publish books and the business of selling licenses to make product from powerful book brands.
Reaching a Global Audience of Readers -- Presented by Allen Lau, CEO and Co-Founder, Wattpad
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
Wattpad has a fast-growing user base of over 15 million members, including readers and emerging writers from the English-speaking world as well as from Spain, Mexico, Germany, the Philippines, Vietnam, the BRIC countries, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere around the globe. Wattpad will describe how some pioneering publishers are using the Wattpad platform as a marketing tool: building author-reader connections, publishing original short stories and prequels within existing series, and creating direct relationships with an increasingly global audience that buys their ebooks. And they'll point to the major markets where their user base is growing quickly, like Germany.
Digital Publishing in the Developing World -- Presented by Octavio Kulesz, Director, Editorial Teseo - Alliance Lab
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
Octavio Kulesz studies the world’s emerging markets: China, India, Russia, Africa, and Latin America. In this quick summary, he will tell us what we can expect to see as they develop into real ebook markets in the near future. How do local players and cultural differences change the game for publishers hoping to find new readers? Where can we expect to see the biggest breakthroughs soonest? How should publishers approach new business partnerships in these markets?
Data-Driven Publishing: Using Big Data and smart analysis to make better decisions across the business -- Presented by Ken Brooks, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
With more data from more internal and external sources available to publishers than ever before, and with ever-more powerful tools and service providers to crunch them, it is incumbent on C-level executives to build Big Data capabilities into their organizations. The possibilities, and the imperatives, will be the topic for Ken Brooks, who has held senior management positions at Bantam Doubleday Dell, Simon & Schuster, Barnes & Noble, and Cengage, and is both a master of data and experienced with all kinds of publishing.
Although there are service providers to do Big Data crunching, and any publisher might use them for some challenges, Brooks believes that learning to use available tools routinely will become a necessary skill set in most publishing houses. He says the key is to become more “data-driven” in analysis and decision-making, because data-driven decisions are possible in more ways than ever before and because publishing is particularly amenable to improvement through the skilled use of data.
Brooks also points out that routine Big Data analysis will become increasingly accurate and beneficial over time. He believes it is an emerging competitive tool of great importance and that the companies that get it soonest will gain great advantage. In this presentation, he will give publishers ideas about how to use Big Data across their enterprise: marketing, editorial, operations, and finance.
Hachette Book Group has rebuilt their own digital infrastructure in the past several years to leverage the advantages of scale — scale which they believe can be achieved through efficiency as well as through size. Under the leadership of Ken Michaels, President and COO of Hachette and Chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the company is focused on better providing value to authors by investing in services, capabilities, and agility, rather than relying strictly on volume and size.
Benedict Evans of Enders Analysis in London tracks the big companies that manage so much of the environment and ecosystem in which publishers operate. In this presentation, he will review the strategies of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, with a special focus on the aspects of their activities that affect book publishers. Then Evans will talk about how publishers can best take advantage of the opportunities these companies make available while avoiding the pitfalls of dancing with partners who dwarf the publishing industry—let alone any single player—in size.
In several short years, F+W Media has built its thriving ecommerce business to revenues in the tens of millions. Economies of scale have made this possible. David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO will share how applying a single strategy to its direct-to-consumer ecommerce business has benefitted even the Company’s narrowest communities through increased efficiencies and shared resources. By focusing on creating best practices to serve its largest six communities and by deploying a centralized service model, two dozen of its smaller sub-communities have achieved greater reach and growing revenues. Hear from Nussbaum and learn how economies of scale make ecommerce success possible for publishing companies of any size.
Linda Leonard and Sonia Nash Gupta will present about teen list destination RandomBuzzers.com. They will talk about the importance of creating content that engages readers and draws in new members as well as how they are evolving and amplifying members' interests while promoting RH titles and authors.
In conjunction with Kristen McLean of Bookigee and leading US children’s book publishers, Bowker has tracked the children’s book consumer market through their ongoing biannual study, Understanding the Children’s Book Consumer in the Digital Age. This consumer survey looks at trends in book discovery, consumption, and buying behaviors among parents, teachers, and kids of all ages. They will reveal the latest data from the study, with special attention paid this year to price sensitivity and value perception across devices and channels, as well as to the adult crossover market for YA titles.
The data presentation will be followed by a panel conversation among the participating publishers. They will discuss the implications of the data for the publishing industry and what children’s book publishers should be doing to continue to reach their audience in the digital age.
Important changes to copyright law are being made by governments and in courtrooms around the world changes that can have a direct impact on the business of publishing and the ways in which content is licensed and used outside the country whose legislature or court took action. Michael Healy, formerly the head of the Book Industry Study and Group and the Book Rights Registry, is now Executive Director at Copyright Clearance Center, the leading global provider of content and licensing solutions.
In this talk, Healy reviews recent copyright developments around the world and some that are pending and explain how business-critical their implications are for publishers and users everywhere.
Rebecca Smart is the CEO of Osprey Group, which began as a military specialist publisher but is rapidly expanding into other verticals. When they bought the fledgling sci-fi imprint Angry Robot from HarperCollins, Smart remarked at the time that military buffs love science fiction. They also own two businesses publishing for the UK heritage market, Shire and Old House. Recently they acquired the UK publisher Duncan Baird, which owns a substantial and long-standing religion imprint called Watkins as well as a list with many mind body spirit books and titles in food and health. That gives Osprey at least two more vertical areas to work in and a start on some others. In this presentation, Smart describes Osprey's vertical strategy and discusses how what Osprey has learned and developed for its original market of military buffs benefits them in other areas far afield from where they started.
Yuvi Kochar, the CTO of the Washington Post holding company, is delivering diverse ERP and SaaS solutions as a streamlined and well-defined set of technology services. The Shared IT Services team is providing services to the different businesses the Washington Post newspaper and Kaplan education, among others, that his holding company owns. He will discuss the service model, organization structure and the technology architecture the Post has developed to ensure success of this new IT services delivery model. His team has to vet the solutions, enable their distribution, and do all that being mindful of how things will look (and work) a level removed from the solution provider.
Handling permissions is one of the most labor-intensive and low-revenue tasks in any publishing house. But new cloud services provide automation and efficiency to make small licensing transactions less onerous and more remunerative. Alfredo Santana, Associate Director of Global Rights Operations at John Wiley & Sons will share how Copyright Clearance Centers RightsLink service has freed up staff time, improved workflow, and increased permissions revenue for the publisher.
Book retailing is in a dynamic period where sales are moving from brick stores to online channels. That's partly driven by the switch of immersive reading to digital; it's also driven by the reduction of shelf space. There is anecdotal evidence suggesting that stores are shifting their attention to books that need to be seen and touched to be purchased: adult illustrated books and children's books. And those books are the very books that have not benefited proportionately from the growth of digital book consumption. In this presentation, Ingram Book Company will share data about recent shifts in online and print sales and insight into how retail outlets are shifting their stock and trade.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
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30. Further Information
Identification of eBooks Full Content Indexing
• www.MyIdentifiers.com • www.bowkernews.com/itnews/
• Beat.Barblan@Bowker.com • Patricia.Payton@Bowker.com
• isbn.org
• isbn-international.org
• istc-international.org
• doi.org
• isni.org
• bisg.org
Editor's Notes
Hello. My name is Patricia Payton. I am Senior Director of Publishers Relations at Bowker.Today I will be talking about maximizing the Discoverability of your eBooks
. I will try to cover two specific areas, Identifiers and Keywords, to examine how these impact discoverability.
Let’s start with Identifiers. A topic that can be confusing.
The number of eBooks has grown tremendously over the past years and the expectation is that this trend will continue and in fact expand globally. “Metadata is king!” is the mantra repeated in publishing conferences and workshops around the globe. Why? Because in the absence of physical browsing options, discovery cannot take place without it. Identifiers are a key element of metadata as they provide an anchor for the item, individual, or organization the metadata is about.
Bowker provides bibliographic asset identification, title management and marketing solutions to maximize the discoverability and sale of book contentWe are or are in the process of becoming a registration agency for all these standards-The ISNI identifies, natural, legal or fictional parties involved in the media content industries-The ISTC identifies works but not their manifestations-The ISBN identifies the manifestations of works but not individual products-The DOI provides persistent links that resolves to specific locations and identifies content objects in the digital environment
The most common and broadly used identifier in our industry is of course the International Standard Book Number (ISBN)Given that the ISBN has been in use for some 40 years, most of us here probably don’t need to be told what an ISBN is or does. Where there has been some confusion recently, is in the proper application of the standard vis a vis digital publications. Some of the typical questions we’ve heard from publishers are: “Do I need a separate ISBN for digital books than for print books?” “Can I use the same ISBN for different digital products?” “What constitutes a product in the digital world?” “Is there an E-ISBN” There isn’t… and so forth.Bowker has been an active participant in the committee for eBook Identification set up by BISG in the US. This committee is expected to publish a policy statement before the end of the year which should help clarify most questions around the subject. In the meantime, as the US ISBN Agency, we at Bowker are of course available to provide information and guidance.
It would be beyond the scope of this presentation to go into much detail regarding eBook identification. But I do want to say this:In order to maximize discovery of your title, it’s very important to assign a different ISBN to different products/formats and to submit separate metadata for each. Don’t assume that submitting one set of metadata for print and digital at the same time or assigning one ISBN across multiple formats will be sufficient. Both practices create confusion and extra work for other parties throughout the supply chain all the way to the end user.
The ISTC, the International Standard Text Code ,is a relatively new standard, which used for the unique identification of textual works.For example, the ISTC can be used to identify related works with the same content so that websites can display print, ebook & audio manifestations together for customers.
By including the ISTC of a textual work in the list of attributes of each actual book that it is published in, it is then possible to search for, and find, that specific textual work among many products. This is the case even though some products with different content might have very similar or even identical names (e.g. The Double by Dostoyevskyvs the book by the same title by Saramango), or even though some products containing the desired content have entirely different names (e.g. Q&A and Slumdog Millionaire).
A single database is used to hold all ISTC records, regardless of which country they were registered in. Anybody wishing to register a textual work, submits a request to an ISTC registration agency with the necessary metadata needed to distinguish that work from all others. Again, as with other identifiers, the key reason for using ISTCs, is to enhance discoverability, i.e. making it easier for people to connect with your content.
The International Standard Name Identifier or ISNI identifies “Public Identitiesused by parties involved throughout the media content industries.”IT is a “Bridge Identifier” that links data across multiple sources
The ISNI allows us to uniquely identify the one public figure from other with similar names/characteristicsParties may be natural, legal or fictional
The ISNI will make it easier to locate multiple works or activities associated with a party. This in turn facilitates licensing of online services and legal access by the public to the content they want.
For example, Jack Wagner is a public figure active in multiple arenas. One ISNI, linked to metadata for all the content he is associated with, can provide us with information from various sources
What we have found is that, even though there have been many changes in the publishing industry in recent years, and customers can now access content in any number of ways, our need for the correct application of identifiers and metadata has actually increased. This makes perfect sense. More content, and more access points, means more potential for confusion, and more difficulty in finding the one specific piece of content or contributor we are trying to locate.
What we are also finding is that identifiers work best when used in combination. For example, being able to link contributors with their contributions by linking ISBNs with ISNIs, gives us a more powerful approach to discovery and disambiguation. In the world of digital books, identifiers are essential to help navigate through the publishing maze and find the correct content to sell, buy, read, track.
Bowker provides guidance to navigate through the identifier maze both directly and by taking an active role in organizations that help establish best practices on the application of standards. We have created products and services to make it easier for both individuals and organizations in the publishing market to get the information they need.
In addition to working with identifiers, Bowker has been testing full content indexing, which is basically a machine reading through a PDF or EPUB file for a book and noting all of the words and phrases used within the book. Our goal with this project is to improve the discoverability of books within our products that are sold to libraries, retailers, and schools. It has turned out to be a very interesting project and has benefits for publishers as well as lessons on the capabilities of machine indexing.
As was discussed in earlier presentations, search and discovery is driven off of metadata. In particular items, such as author name, subject codes, and key terms that a publisher lists within their book descriptions, lead readers to your products.
When readers use a search engine, retailer website, or publisher website to search for books, they typically either key in 1or 2 words to indicate what they are looking for, or use the browse options available on the site. From that they navigate to titles of interest. If the users’ 1-2 search words appear in your metadata, then your book will be retrieved as a search result. Or if your metadata matches the subject codes chosen in the browse function on the website, your book will be retrieved.
So where do all of these terms come from?First, publishers can create keywords for use on their own website in order to drive users to the site and to allow them to navigate to related titles once they are on the site in a search.
Also, publishers can use ONIX or Excel files to share keywords or other metadata they create. This information can be easily sent to retailers, wholesalers, and distributors.
But all of this keyword creation takes time and resources. Who does the work get allocated to? How many keywords do you create for each title? What is the ROI for all of this work?
On a small scale, for your own website, it is easy to create the keywords by hand, monitor use of search terms through an SEO analytics service and adjust as necessary. But when you have 10s, 100s, or 1000s of titles, manual creation may not be an option or it may be an option for only selected titles.
Also, if you are trying to reach readers through other parties’ websites such as an online retailer, or a library catalog, you will not be able to view or understand how users are using that website or the search terms they are using to locate your books or books related to yours.
All of this makes ROI hard to measure. This is why machine indexing can aid a publisher. Indexing provides exponentially more keywords than a publisher can create by hand. It creates them in seconds. And it creates them from the content of the book. Exponentially more keywords can be created and ingest engines can use as many terms as are available in order to make search smarter.
This XML string is an example of what Bowker’s indexing system creates when it reads a PDF or EPUB file. Our system also assigns relevancy and frequency scores for each keyword.
It also stores the contextual use of a keyword. For example, China as a location rather than a person’s name or a piece of dinnerware.So what is the impact of this type of system?
We recently conducted a study of ONIX content supplied by publishers versus indexed content for the same ISBN. In our review the machine created 300% to 1500% of the keywords that the publisher supplied. Indexing worked for print as well as eBooks and it worked for older and newer titles. Our conclusion from this review is to move forward with indexing more content and building out products to meet the needs of our customers.My goal in sharing these concepts with you today is to 1) reinforce the need for good descriptive metadata in the supply chain and 2) to make you aware of technology that is currently available to aid in the creation of metadata whether you create your metadata yourself or through a third party.
I hope this has provided useful information on keywords and identifiers that will aid you in making future decisions about your business.Here are Bowker’s contact details and websites where you can learn more. Bowker’s MyIdentifiers.com provides access to obtain ISBNs, ISTCs, load metadata to Bowker’s system, and to learn more about identifiers.