[OpenGLAM] EPUB examples in the GLAM community?

Thu Sep 5 20:41:25 UTC 2013

Thanks for this example Sebastiaan, those are some good points for me to
include in our documentation so others can avoid this extra work!

Corina

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Sebastiaan ter Burg
<terburg at wikimedia.nl>wrote:

> I've been involved with the publication of a book in three formats: as a
> full website, PDF's and Epub. The biggest problem we ran into was that it
> was decided to make an Epub version after the book was layed out in the PDF
> format. To use a conversion program we had to remove every manual line and
> page break and we ran into numerous problems with the conversion of the
> images. Some images ended up inverted (like a photonegative). In the end we
> decided to take out the images in the Epub version. This is the
> book/website (all in dutch): http://www.bestemminggewijzigd.nl
>
> Best,
>
> Sebastiaan
>
>
>
>
> 2013/9/4 Molly O'Toole <mollyotoole at me.com>
>
>> If you don't have any luck with anyone here, you may want to check out
>> jane freedman's site http://janefriedman.com/, she could be helpful.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:10 PM, C MacDonald <corina at corinamacdonald.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone on this list has been involved in ebook
>> publishing in their institution using the EPUB format. For example, has
>> anyone used EPUB to publish an exhibition catalogue?
>>
>> If so I'd love to interview you about your experience using this format.
>>
>> I'm putting together some resources for a small toolkit for arts
>> publishers related to open access, creative commons licensing and the use
>> of open formats in digital publishing.
>>
>> This toolkit will appear online on the Artexte website later this fall,
>> and is part of our work to promote knowledge of 'openglam' topics to the
>> Canadian arts publishing community. It's related to our e-artexte project,
>> an open access repository for visual arts publications.
>>
>> For more info see http://artexte.ca and http://e-artexte.ca
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Corina
>>
>>
>>
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