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eBooks: Great Expectations for Web Standards

Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel:

EPUB 3.0 and PSV

Dianne Kennedy, VP of Emerging Technologies, IDEAlliance

Peter Meirs, VP, Production Technologies, Time Inc. and nextPub WG Chair

February 12, 2013

IDEAlliance Position Paper


Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel with EPUB 3.0 and PSV

Managing digital source content with PRISM

Source Vocabulary (PSV) facilitates

automated delivery of magazines to the

EPUB 3 eReader channel

About IDEAlliance

• IDEAlliance is a global community

• More than 1,300 member companies

• Identifies specifications and best practices for

efficient end-to-end digital media workflows

• Focus on real-world solutions


Association Partners• Magazine Media Association (MPA)

• Ad-ID (a Company of 4A’s & ANA)

• JMPA (Japanese Magazine Publishing Association)

• IDPF


Publisher Partners• AARP/Publications

• American Media, Inc.

• Hearst Magazines

• Meredith Corporation

• National Geographic Global Media

• Rodale, Inc.

• Source Interlink Media

• Time Inc.

• U.S. News Media Group

• Wolters Kluwer


PSV & EPUB

• Coordination Meeting at Time Inc. May 2010

– Leadership:

– IDEAlliance: Dianne Kennedy

– IDPF: Garth Conboy, Bill McCoy, Michael Smith

– Publishing representative: Peter Meirs

• Agreement to collaborate on cross-association

specification efforts

– EPUB 3.0 (packaging, delivery & display for eReaders)

– PRISM 3.0 (source content format)



• Metadata specification created by IDEAlliance Working

Group members to extend PRISM beyond print.

• Built on the PRISM metadata specification and its

controlled vocabularies.

• Can serve as core metadata model for managing assets

or transforming and delivering them to multiple

platforms (EPUB 3.0, web, mobile and tablet apps).

• PSV is Royalty Free and open.

• Facilitates a design-neutral approach to content

creation.

About PSV

PRISM 3.0

PCV

Namespace

PIM

Namespace

Dublin Core

Namespace

PAM

Namespace

PMI

Namespace

PUR

Namespace

PRM

Namespace

PSV

Namespace

Controlled Vocabularies In-line markup Basic metadata elements

Packaging and delivery Usage rights

Image metadata Recipe metadata Multi-platform source

Foundations of PSV

• Built on existing repositories and technologies (PRISM 3.0)

• Leverages emerging technologies (HTML5)

• Flexible/Modular Framework or “Building Blocks”

• Source content that can be transformed dynamically for

multichannel delivery (including EPUB 3 eReaders)


It’s all about the MetadataPSV provides a standard metadata schema that is:

• A blueprint for quickly configuring content object repositories

• A common layer for federating and mapping between existing

repositories

• Semantically constructed to facilitate automated

layout and design

• A standardized framework for integrating

repositories with creative, production,

workflow and delivery systems



PSV Building Blocks

Content and Metadata Model


Content and Metadata Model

EPUB 3 Building Blocks

Packaging PSV as EPUB 3



Platform Neutral Content Creation

PrintEPUB3TabletMobileWeb

Programmatic transformation and packaging

Dianne Kennedy, VP of Emerging Technologies, IDEAlliance

Peter Meirs, VP, Production Technologies, Time Inc. and nextPub WG Chair


February 12, 2013

Bringing Magazines to the eBook Channel:

EPUB 3.0 and PSV

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