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How to carry over historic books into social networks

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BooksOnline '11: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Online books, complementary social media and crowdsourcing

Pages 25 - 34

https://doi.org/10.1145/2064058.2064065

Published: 24 October 2011 Publication History

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This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initiatives we introduce quality measures for the digitalization process. After digitalization an Interactive Internet Book (IIB) has to offer a kind of digital binding, annotation efforts and sophisticated ways for user interaction. We claim that the quality and the enhancements of an Interactive Internet Book go far beyond what is traditionally assumed: it is not enough to scan books. The scans have to be of high quality, allow good OCR to permit full text searches; books need not only be "packaged" but also need meta-data and functionalities that one can expect from a computer supported medium that go far beyond what is possible with traditional printed books. Those factors are critical for the use of e-books in social media environments, yet this is often still overlooked. Finally, we describe a working prototype and demonstrate the advantages obtained with a use case.

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Bowers CCreed CCowan BBeale R(2013)Touching annotationsInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.08.01771:12(1103-1111)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.08.017
Lee SKim JShi C(2013)Assessing the possibility of a social e-book by analyzing reader experiencesProceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing10.1007/978-3-642-39371-6_6(50-57)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2013
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BooksOnline '11: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Online books, complementary social media and crowdsourcing

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DOI:10.1145/2064058

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Maurer HMüller H(2018)Das Austria-Forum und die InformationswissenschaftInformationswissenschaft10.7767/boehlau.9783205791935.237(237-264)Online publication date: 4-Jul-2018
https://doi.org/10.7767/boehlau.9783205791935.237
Bowers CCreed CCowan BBeale R(2013)Touching annotationsInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.08.01771:12(1103-1111)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.08.017
Lee SKim JShi C(2013)Assessing the possibility of a social e-book by analyzing reader experiencesProceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing10.1007/978-3-642-39371-6_6(50-57)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-39371-6_6
Kazai GEickhoff CBrusilovsky P(2012)Report on BooksOnline'11ACM SIGIR Forum10.1145/2215676.221568046:1(43-50)Online publication date: 20-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2215676.2215680
Kazai GEickhoff CBrusilovsky P(2011)BooksOnline'11Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/2063576.2064042(2619-2620)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2011
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