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EBOOKS WITHOUT VENDORS Using Open Source Tools to Create and Share Meaningful Ebook Collections Slide 2 Who am I? Matt Weaver Web Librarian - Westlake Porter Public Library Board member Library Renewal Slide 3 Not an alternative to Overdrive, ebrary, 3M, etc. Slide 4 This talk is not about ebooks as products Slide 5 EBOOKS AS TOOLS To be created by: the library the community For collaboration For connection Slide 6 Ebooks as source material for new products Slide 7 DIY Ebooks: Library as publisher Slide 8 An Experiment: Library as publisher Slide 9 Slide 10 WHY DIY? Design for your community: Responsive Relevant Hyper-local Slide 11 WHY DIY? Gain knowledge and skills that can be applied in other projects/partnerships Slide 12 WHY DIY? Content independence Slide 13 OPEN SOURCE: WHAT IS IT? Slide 14 Free to use Free to develop Uses free licenses (GNU GPL most common) OPEN SOURCE: WHAT IS IT? Slide 15 Open Source: Four Freedoms The freedom to: Run the program for any purpose Study how the program works and adapt it to your needs (requires source code) www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Slide 16 Open Source: Four Freedoms The freedom to: Redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor Improve the program and release your improvements to the public www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Slide 17 Why Open Source? - Collaboration & Community Zero software costs, yet you get powerful software Slide 18 Why Open Source? Control over Content You control development: ultimate control over content Slide 19 Why Open Source? - Collaboration & Community Collaborators can be united with common tools Slide 20 Why Open Source? - Collaboration & Community No restrictions on collaboration by software publishers' technologies/license agreements Slide 21 An Open-Source Model for Community Publishing affordable for even small libraries return on investment Slide 22 DRM (Digital Rights Management) Think of DRM on an eBook as a lock, with your eReader having the key to open the lock and display the file. - Jason Griffey Digital Rights Management (DRM) Slide 23 DRM in libraries Impedes access by imposing friction = technological obstacles Expensive Counterproductive For much content, isnt necessary Slide 24 SECURING ACCESS TO CONTENT Slide 25 DIY: Copyright Disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been a lawyer. I am not a copyright expert. Slide 26 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 Slide 27 DIY: Copyright Determine if book has fallen into the public domain Or seek permission from rightsholder Slide 28 DIY: Copyright - Resources http://cocatalog.loc.gov/ Slide 29 DIY: Copyright - Resources http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page ?forward=home http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page ?forward=home Slide 30 Digital Copyright Slider http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/ DIY: Copyright - Resources Slide 31 Copyright Genie http://librarycopyright.net/resources/genie/ DIY: Copyright - Resources Slide 32 DIY: Copyright Show your work Document copyright research to justify your usage, and to show that you acted professionally in trying to locate rightsholders. Slide 33 PERMISSION TO DIGITIZE Slide 34 DIY: Copyright - Guidelines Slide 35 Securing permission: consent forms Organizational leaders: may think they have to sign over copyright may be afraid to sign something will likely seek broader approval Slide 36 Securing permission: consent forms Consent agreement should be clear on copyright Be clear how content will be used If you already have a consent form, make sure it applies to new projects For consent agreement questions, consult an attorney. Slide 37 EBOOKS DISSECTED & DIGITIZED Slide 38 ePub as zip file Slide 39 Slide 40 ebook markup HTML & CSS Slide 41 Everything has been digitized, right? Bad OCR: hours, fractions Scanned Digitized Corrected WPPL Epub page Slide 42 Homer ebook project http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/40965440/FrontPage Slide 43 Homer The following tools are installed as part of the Homer Project: ImageMagick (for manipulation 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) Slide 44 Ebook Production Workflow Slide 45 or Slide 46 Homer: ScanTailor Preprocess tiff-format images of book pages Deskewing De-speckling Correcting warp Right-to-left language support Outputs images for Homer Slide 47 Homer: ScanTailor Slide 48 HOMER BASH SCRIPT It looks like command-line Slide 49 HOMER BASH SCRIPT but its drag-and- drop!!! Slide 50 Homer: tesseract-ocr Optical Character Recognition Multilingual support - From Afrikaans to Vietnamese Slide 51 Homer: pdfbeads Outputs a searchable PDF Slide 52 Homer & pdfbeads Outputs a searchable PDF Slide 53 Sigil https://code.google.com/p/sigil/ Slide 54 Epub Validator http://validator.idpf.org/ Slide 55 Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/ Slide 56 Drupal Open source content management system Widely used in libraries Drupal 7 Responsive layout drupal.org Slide 57 Drupal Ability to create custom fields for metadata can be hidden from users Slide 58 3 content types: recipe ebook organization Drupal 7 Responsive layout Slide 59 Drupal Recipe module Slide 60 Drupal ILS authentication module Slide 61 USAGE: Since late Oct. 2013 Nearly 800 ebook downloads More than 11,000 individual recipes downloaded or printed Slide 62 Costs: Content: $0 Software licensing: $0 Staff time: 4-7 hours per ebook (estimated) Slide 63 The Community Cookbook whats next? Slide 64 Slide 65 Original content: We can help organizations produce their own cookbooks Work with organizations to produce ebook versionsbut Slide 66 The Community Cookbook whats next? with one more open-source tool, we can even help them design print versions: We can do everything but the printing. Slide 67 Its an exciting possibility for the future of libraries that there is value to be mined from content already in our communities. Slide 68 Even more exciting is the thought that the most valuable content to libraries is content from our communities that hasnt been created yet. Slide 69 Further Reading Jarret Buse - 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 Slide 70 Further Reading Stanford University: Copyright & Fair Use Charts and Tools http://fairuse.stanford.edu/charts-and-tools/ Slide 71 mattrweaver } Slide 72 Image credits Open Source Sign Timothy Appnel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tappnel/5798812875/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tappnel/5798812875/ Librarian from Turn of the Century - http://www.moyak.com/researcher/Clients/male_librarians/ind ex.html?id=34 http://www.moyak.com/researcher/Clients/male_librarians/ind ex.html?id=34 Ereaders - Michael Porter https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5052936803/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/5052936803/ Apples & oranges http://mrg.bz/n1xLHghttp://mrg.bz/n1xLHg Slide 73 Image credits Techno_background2.jpg (ones and zeroes) http://www.morguefile.com/creative/Grafixar http://www.morguefile.com/creative/Grafixar Pile of books with lock: Librarian in Black - http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/12/overdrive.ht ml http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/12/overdrive.ht ml Ricoh Copier: http://www.itinstock.com/ekmps/shops/itinstock/images/ricoh- aficio-mp-4001-fast-photocopier-copier-printer-scan-fax-5598- p.jpg http://www.itinstock.com/ekmps/shops/itinstock/images/ricoh- aficio-mp-4001-fast-photocopier-copier-printer-scan-fax-5598- p.jpg