TY - GEN
T1 - EPUB use in digital libraries
T2 - 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, ELPUB 2011
AU - Çelikbas, Zeki
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Libraries have a unique role as a bridge between users and information containers. Currently, information containers usually consist of books, journals and electronic files. While the format of information containers changes over the years, the library's role stays the same. As digital libraries proliferate, the classical library has a new role as information producer. In this paper, we discuss the EPUB format, developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) as an open standard for e-books, and its use as a new information container format in libraries and digital libraries. Several different formats (e.g., doc, odf, txt, html, DjVu) are used in digital libraries, but the EPUB format stands out as it has open file structure and is easy to produce and use. Because of its ease of use, mobile devices and e-book readers such as Kindle immediately started to support it. As EPUB is an open and free format, it enables publishers and digital libraries to publish license-free ebooks. We review the EPUB format in this paper and show how to produce an EPUB file along with its use with digital library applications such as DSpace, EPrints and Greenstone.
AB - Libraries have a unique role as a bridge between users and information containers. Currently, information containers usually consist of books, journals and electronic files. While the format of information containers changes over the years, the library's role stays the same. As digital libraries proliferate, the classical library has a new role as information producer. In this paper, we discuss the EPUB format, developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) as an open standard for e-books, and its use as a new information container format in libraries and digital libraries. Several different formats (e.g., doc, odf, txt, html, DjVu) are used in digital libraries, but the EPUB format stands out as it has open file structure and is easy to produce and use. Because of its ease of use, mobile devices and e-book readers such as Kindle immediately started to support it. As EPUB is an open and free format, it enables publishers and digital libraries to publish license-free ebooks. We review the EPUB format in this paper and show how to produce an EPUB file along with its use with digital library applications such as DSpace, EPrints and Greenstone.
KW - Digital libraries
KW - EBooks
KW - EPUB
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84869115325
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869115325
SN - 9789754913200
T3 - ELPUB 2011 - Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies, 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
SP - 120
EP - 126
BT - ELPUB 2011 - Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies, 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
Y2 - 22 June 2011 through 24 June 2011
ER -