ebooks without vendors: using open source software to create and share meaningful ebook collections...
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EBOOKS WITHOUT VENDORS
Using Open Source Tools to Create and Share Meaningful Ebook Collections
Who am I?
Matt Weaver
Systems Medical Librarian – Cleveland Clinic
Who am I?
Matt Weaver
FormerIT Manager - Westlake Porter Public Library
This talk is not about ebooks
as products
Not an alternative to Overdrive, ebrary, 3M, etc.
EBOOKS AS TOOLSTo be created by:
• the library• the community
Opportunities for:• collaboration• connection
An Experiment: Library as publisher
USAGE: late Oct. 2013 through Jul. 2015
More than 2,000 ebook downloads
More than 60,000 recipes downloaded/printed
15% by cardholders
Costs:
Content: $0
Software licensing: $0
Staff time: 4-7 hours per ebook (estimated)
Mostly editing
An Experiment: Library as publisher
SECURING ACCESS TO CONTENT
DIY: Copyright
Disclaimer:I am not now, nor have I ever been a lawyer.
I am not a copyright expert.
tap shoes
DIY: Copyright - Resources
http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home
Digital Copyright Sliderhttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/
DIY: Copyright - Resources
Section 108 Spinnerhttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/spinner/
DIY: Copyright - Resources
Copyright Geniehttp://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/
DIY: Copyright - Resources
Orphan Works
: http://bit.ly/1WRC8ck
“…the Copyright Office rejects the idea that fair use can provide an adequate solution [to the problem of orphan works]”… Krista Cox, Association of Research Libraries
DIY: Copyright Because of digital distribution,
and
because the library does not own titles to be digitized…
o no Fair Use case, o no section 108 protections
Documention ofcopyrightresearch
ContentPermissionagreements
DIY: Copyright
EBOOKS DISSECTED & DIGITIZED
ePub as zip file
ePub as zip file
ebook markup
HTML & CSS
Everything has been digitized, right?
Bad OCR: hours, fractionsScanned ≠ Digitized
CorrectedWPPLEpubpage
Everything has been digitized, right?
Curation/editing takes time.Who else would invest such time?
CorrectedWPPLEpubpage
PRODUCINGEBOOKFILES
Homer ebook project
http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/40965440/FrontPage
HomerThe following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:
ImageMagick (for manipulating images) Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation) JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images) Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition) RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language) Hpricot (HTML parser) RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language
and ImageMagick) Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF) Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer) ScanTailor (post-processing tool) Homer (command-line bash script)
HomerThe following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project:
ImageMagick (for manipulating images) Jpegtran (loseless jpeg transformation) JBIG2 encoder (compression tool for bi-level images) Tesseract-OCR (optical character recognition) RubyInstaller (installs the Ruby programming language) Hpricot (HTML parser) RMagick (interface between the Ruby programming language
and ImageMagick) Pdfbeads (to create searchable PDF) Cmdow.exe (command-line utility used in Homer) ScanTailor (post-processing tool) Homer (command-line bash script)
EbookProduction Workflow
Homer: ScanTailor
Preprocess tiff-format images of book pages
Deskewing De-speckling Correcting warp
Right-to-left language support
Outputs images for Homer
Homer: ScanTailor
Homer: ScanTailor
OCR challenges
HOMER BASH SCRIPT
It looks like command-line…
HOMER BASH SCRIPT
but it’s drag-and-drop!!!
Homer: tesseract-ocr
Optical Character Recognition
Multilingual support -From Afrikaans to
Vietnamese
Homer: pdfbeads
Outputs a searchable PDF
Homer & pdfbeads
Outputs a searchable PDF
Sigil
https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
Epub Validator
http://validator.idpf.org/
Calibre
http://calibre-ebook.com/
COMMUNITYCOOKBOOKCOOKING.WESTLAKELIBRARY.ORG
Drupal
Open source content management system
drupal.org
Drupal
Ability to create
custom fields for
metadata – can be
hidden from users
drupal.org
Drupal – Controlling Access
Private files
vs
public files
drupal.org
Drupal Controlling Access – ILS authentication module
Drupal – Controlling Access
Taxonomy Control Lite
module: permissions based
on taxonomy terms
drupal.org
Drupal – Recipe module
3 content types:•recipe•ebook•organization
Drupal 7 “Responsive”
layout
Drupal - Omega 3 Responsive Theme
PHASE TWO(WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN?)
Drupal – ePub module
Drupal – ePub module
Drupal – PDF module
Drupal – HTML import module
Merging Content
The Community Cookbook – mapping
Bonus:Capturing Original Content …with one more open-source tool, we can even help them design print versions:
Bonus: Capturing Original Content
We can do everything but the printing.
Further Reading
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9911
Further Reading
Jarret Buse Epub from the Ground UP:A Hands-on Guide to EPUB2 and EPUB3
Excellent guide to the guts of ebooks
Features many of the open-source programs I have discussed
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837954536
Further Reading
Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use – Charts and Toolshttp://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts-and-tools/
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Image creditsOpen Source Sign Timothy Appnel -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/tappnel/5798812875/“Librarian from Turn of the Century” -
http://www.moyak.com/researcher/Clients/male_librarians/index.html?id=34
Ereaders - Michael Porter https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5052936803/
Apples & oranges http://mrg.bz/n1xLHgTechno_background2.jpg (ones and zeroes)
http://www.morguefile.com/creative/GrafixarRicoh Copier:
http://www.itinstock.com/ekmps/shops/itinstock/images/ricoh-aficio-mp-4001-fast-photocopier-copier-printer-scan-fax-5598-p.jpg