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EAD Encoding
- Standard for electronic encoding of finding aids for archival and manuscript collections
- Expressed as an SGML/XML DTD
- Supports archival descriptive practices and standards for discovery, exchange and use of data
- Single-level at collection level
- Multiple level descriptions from collection through file and item levels.
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Digital Archiving – Benefits
Digitization contribute to
- Conservation of physical resources
- Enables effective sharing of information and contributes to knowledge flow
- Unlocks information that was previously difficult to access in paper form.
- Use of digital surrogates will reduce wear and tear of originals / made legible.
- Negate the use of originals
- Access to information could be restricted with remote access
- Provide customizable user interface for collaborative working environment
- Faster support regarding any query & question
- Cost saving on paper and time saving in finding information.
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Enhanced eBook Features
Enhanced eBooks go beyond the simple layouts of most ebooks to offer more complex formatting, illustration, and rich media such as video, audio and program-like interactions. As we’ve just seen, updates to the EPUB and Kindle formats — EPUB3 and Kindle KF8 — provide the advanced features needed for enhanced ebooks. A new breed of e-reading devices and apps is emerging to support these new versions.
We’ll take a brief look at some of the more important formats being used today to produce enhanced ebooks in this changing landscape.
• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• Apps
• Fixed layout ebooks
• Web app
And we’ll look at two popular tools for producing enhanced ebooks
• Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
• Apple iBooks Author
These tools and formats are just a small selection of the many options to produce enhanced digital publications. Each of these has solid backing and supporters among the publishing community but this is a field where we’re still some way from having a widely-adopted standard.
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How to Promote Your E-Book?
Try these tactics, making sure that the e-book always is the call to action:
• Post the first chapter on SlideShare.
• Record someone from your team reading the e-book and launch it as an audio book.
• Launch a webinar with the author, featured thought leaders, or brands.
• Create an infographic with the e-book’s tips, tricks, or quotes.
• Turn each chapter into a blog post.
• Write a guest blog post for sites covering the topic.
• Include the e-book in two or three places on your website, such as the home page, resources section, and sidebar call-out.
• Print it or put it on a USB drive and give it away at conferences, booth exhibits, etc.
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METS/ALTO and Web Interface Services
METS/ALTO:
The combination of METS and ALTO (often written METS/ALTO) is the current industry standard for newspaper digitization used by hundreds of modern, large-scale newspaper digitization projects
Benefits:
- METS has the capability to support article segmentation, so articles, headlines, bylines, and other article-level metadata can be captured.
- The combination of METS and ALTO captures very “rich” data, allowing the development of innovative discovery and delivery interfaces.
- Both METS and ALTO are open XML standards — no proprietary software is required to read or transform the digitized objects.
Web Interface (Web based application):
A web-based application is any application that uses a website as the interface (the ‘front-end’). Users access the application from any computer connected to the Internet using a standard browser, instead of using an application that has been installed on their local computer.
Business Advantage using Web Inteface
- Cost effective development
- Accessible anywhere
- Easily customizable
- Accessible for a range of devices
- Improved interoperability
- Easier installation and maintenance
- Adaptable to increased workload
- Security
- Flexible core technologies