This document discusses electronic publishing and digitization standards and processes. It covers: 1. Content recruitment for electronic publishing, including identifying organization needs and partnerships, memorandums of agreement, and education. 2. Foundations and steps for digitization projects, including planning, goals, audiences, work plans, staffing, and budgets. 3. Standards for digitizing different media types like photos, audio, documents. It discusses scanning methods, resolution, file formats and embedded metadata. 4. Organizations that provide digitization guidelines and standards like FADGI and initiatives to support Arabic digital content.

1. CH4 :E-PUBLISHING
PRODUCTION
Electronic Publishing

2. Content Recruitment
 What are your organization needs?
 identifying organization partners
 Memorandums of agreement
 Access models, ownership of content, data
preparation, identity and site customization
 Education
 helping journals go electronic
 publishing models, copyright, need for evidence

3. Foundations and Steps

4. Digitization Standards

5. Planning and Implementing
(Photo, Audio, Books, Documents, Manuscripts)
Digitizing Project
 Planning and implementing digitizing project should
include a thorough period of analysis and planning. It is
important to:
 1. Clearly articulate the goals of the project.
 2. Identify the audience for the (photo, audio, books, documents,
manuscripts) products.
 3. Have a thorough understanding of methods and processes for
completing the project.
 4. Develop a realistic work plan.
 5. Identify staffing or outsourcing needs.
 6. Create budgets and funding sources to support the project
through a series of stages.

6. Sound Recordings
The use of high-quality AD converter ( Analog-to-Digital converter) (standard
IASA (The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives ))
Conversion based on the possibility to use the following formulas:
-MP3: is the file extension for audio files.
-WMA: Windows Media Audio developed by Microsoft.
-PCM: (Pulse Code Modulation) format.
-WAVE: (Waveform Audio File) format.
-BW (File extension for Broadcast W File).
F: AV

7. Photos
Bit depth: It is a measurement of the number of bits used to define each pixel. The
greater the bit depth used, the greater the number of gray and color tones that can be
expressed.
The mission follows 3 kinds of scanning:
• Bito na l s c a nning : using one bit per pixel to represent black and white.
• G ra y s c a le s c a nning : using multiple bits per pixel to represent shades of grey.
• Co lo r s c a nning : uses multiple bits per pixel to represent color.
Resolution:
It is determined by the number of pixels used to present the image, expressed in dots per inch
(dpi) or pixels per inch (ppi).
Increasing the number of pixels used to capture the image will result in a higher resolution
Example:
-Images with text and size in the range of 5 X 7 inch, 600 dots per square inch (600dpi).
But just continuing to increase resolution will not result in better quality, only in a larger file
size.
Example:
-For images larger than 5 X 7 inch, 300 dots per square inch (300dpi).

8. Organizations & Institutions for
Digitization Standards
 National Digital Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIPP)
 http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
 Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI)
 http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov
 National Agricultural Library (NAL)
 http://riley.nal.usda.gov
 Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/digital-initiatives/012018-1200-e.ht

9. Metadata Standards
 Metadata embedded in the file:
It is necessary to insert some basic
data within the file is known as the
data contained in the file (Embedded
Metadata), as a name of the author,
title, keywords and subject headings,
publisher.

10. Software
 1.Capture Pro :  3.OmniPage :
 is Capture Pro software version 1.3  is fast and easy way to convert
which include ... paper document to editable
 *Arabic languages supported digital content .
 *Control the quality of the image  •Take advantage of the most
accurate OCR solution (optical
 *intelligent control quality (CQ)
character recognition).
 2.ScanOS :  •The most accurate conversion
 scanning operating system in over 120 languages.
 *it has many characteristic
 Easy to use and implementation ,
fixable , Save time , increase
Productivity And Scalable software.

11. Arabic Initiatives
• King Abdullah's initiative to support Arabic
content.
• Project repository of digital assets (DAR) .
• Arab Gate for Information Management
(Innovation).
• Al-Warraq
• #letstweetinarabic
• @Entajopedia

12. ‫مبادرة الملك عبدال‬
 King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology and
aims to:
 Harness the digital content to
support the development and
transformation to a
knowledge society.
 Ensure that all segments of
society have access to
information and opportunities
online.
 Preserve the Arab and
Islamic identity of the
community and promote
cultural & civilization stock
digitally.
 Enabling the production of a
wealthy Arab e-content to
serve Arab and Islamic
societies.

13. ‫مستودع الوصول الرقمية دار‬
 One of the library of
Alexandria projects which
includes a digitized
collection of books in a
variety of fields. They
have digitized more than
62 thousand book , of
which 62 thousand in
Arabic, and placed on the
website of the Library
bibalex.org. they provide
their service to science
students, researchers
and academics, as thy
can view the full versions
of the books in the form
of «PDF».

14. ‫البوابة العربية للمعلومات‬
‫الادارية إبداع‬
 Supervised by the Arab
Organization for
Administrative.
 Development and include
the gate that has to do
with information
management where it has
more than forty journal in
addition to all the
conferences held by the
Organization since the
sixties.

15. ‫الوراق‬
 Established under the
auspices and support of
personal Mohamed Ahmed
Khalifa Al Suwaidi, is
interested in spreading the
Islamic and Arab heritage
using information technology
and involves the re-
investigation and
documentation of some of its
sources and reformulate
some of the other. To enable
researchers, scholars,
intellectuals and those
interested in access to the
group of the most important
sources of Arab heritage

16. #letstweetinarabic initiative
 Fatimah al-Khater, a 17 years
of age Qatari student who
founded the “Let’s Tweet in
Arabic initiative” to promote
Arabic social networking
 The initiative focused on the
way in which digital content
has revived Arabic language,
by gathering young people
together regardless of racial
or political divisions and
helping to encourage
communication between
people in Arabic language.

18. Digital publishing Technology Trends
 Related Technology
 typeset technology
 Restart Image processing (RIP) & output technology
 Font e technology
 Work Flow management technology
 New Technology
 Full-text search, data mining, semantic web, complex search over different
resources （ book 、 newspaper 、 magazine ）、 content related
 individuality publish
 Web 2.0 technology
 Tag 、 Digg 、 RSS 、……
 Digital Right Management (DRM)
 Reading technology over different platform and devices
 DRM is the core technology for benign development of digital
publishing

19. QA is the New Edit - Times
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 Test title on each device
 Test what happens to rendering at each font size
 Test each live link
 Test each functional action
 Test product discovery
 Test purchase
 Give it to a newbie & re-run
 Who will the customer complain to if it doesn’t work properly?

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