Reading Is A Social Activity

Todd A. Carpenter, NISO Executive Director

Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual MeetingMay 31, 2012 - Arlington, VA

@TAC_NISO Twitter Highlights

• Will be discussing social reading today at #SSP2012 =>Socially, on twitter too!

• Trying to be funny & helpful. Pre-tweeting presentation. Slides on Slideshare! #SSP2012

• #NISO = 1/3 Publishers, 1/3 Libraries, 1/3 automation vendors - where communities converge to develop standards #SSP2012

• There are lots of ways that standards apply to content distribution, many you don’t think of. #ssp2012

• No, I’m not going to talk about social media apps. Sorry! #ssp2012

• Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World http://bit.ly/L7tK4Y #ssp2012

• Liza Daly @liza The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati (2010) http://nyti.ms/L7tYJk #ssp2012

• Page “147” is meaningless in a world of reflowable text? #ssp2012

• Some (imperfect) location methods of text location: Chapter/verse, char count, X-Path, pre-post text hash #ssp2012

• If finding text marker is same edition is hard, try different editions, different versions of a text #ssp2012

• Sharing between walled gardens is also an incredible problem #ssp2012

• There is more to annotate than simply text. There are also photos, audio, videos more... #ssp2012

• Information about two Mellon Foundation funded meetings on Social Reading: http://bit.ly/oKoeIB #ssp2012

• Work underway at #NISO to develop an open and extensible standard for location and sharing of annotations #ssp2012

Image: DanTaylor Image: Joel Washing

Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice

Is this what you thought I meant?

Reality or Myth?

Larger part of reality

“Books have been held hostage offline for far too long. Taking them digital will unlock their real hidden value:

the readers.”Clive Thompson - The Future of Reading in a Digital

World in Wired Magazine 17.06 (2009)

A truly modern e-reader is one that is intimately connected to the Web and

allows a user to make queries as a series of asides, while reading or after immersive reading has ended.

Liza Daily - Threepress Consulting, Inc

Connected by our devices on a network talking to each other

What’s so hard about sharing annotations?

How do we find what we want to share?

What does page “147” mean in a re-flowable

text?

Version Control and

Edition variations

Chapter & verse? Character count?

X-Path?Pre/post mark hashing?

Some (imperfect) location methods

Sharing between walled gardensWalled garden, Intwood Hall by Katy Walters

Annotation issues we shouldn’t

ignore

Annotation ≠

Bookmarking

Annotations

Bookmarks

More than just text

Cross Media Annotation

NISO Working Group on Standards for Open Annotation

Two Incubation Meetings in 2011

Funded through the generous support of the Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation

Goal

Develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in a digital text, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or

mutable.  

Robert Bolick (Unaffiliated)E. Ann Caldwell, Brown UniversityMeira Chefitz , University of IllinoisSamantha Cohen, Simon & Schuster

Gary Coker, MetaPressCasey Dougherty, Apple Inc.

Markus Gylling, IDPFKenneth Haase, beingmeta, incBaden Hughes, Cabahu Pty LtdMegan Hurst, EBSCO Publshing

Takeshi Kanai, SonyGeorge Kerscher, DAISY Consortium

Caren Milloy, JISC Collections

Bill McCoy, IDPFErin McKean, Wordnik

Andrea Mercado, Copyright Clearance CenterRandall Leeds, hypothes.is

Karina Luke, Book Industry CommunicationAlejandro Rodriguez, Apple Inc.Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe, Inc.

Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Peter Sorotokin, Adobe, Inc.Dan Whaley, hypothes.is

Mohamed Zergaoui, Innovimax SARL

Working group members

Describing an annotation

Slide image from Dr. Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Lab, on SlideShare

Use cases vary wildly between people, and even within people. It all depends on

the particular need, goal or subject. ... You'd have public and private,

disconnected and connected. Just flick a switch for your desired experience.

Mac Slocum - O'Reilly's Online Managing Editor

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

Todd CarpenterExecutive Director

National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

@TAC_NISOtodd@niso.orgwww.niso.org