Presentation at : O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, February 13 - 15, 2012, New York

Framework and set of standards for supporting social reading in ebook environments.

A set of tools for producing docbook documentation from wiki files

The Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog is a syndication format for electronic publications based on Atom RFC4287 and HTTP RFC2616. Catalogs enable the aggregation, distribution, discovery, and acquisition of electronic publications. OPDS Catalogs use existing or emergent open standards and conventions, with a priority on simplicity.

Spec for flexible ebook distribution.

Open source web-based collaborative tool for creating and publishing ebooks.

Childen's picturebooks converted to EPUB from Gutenberg sources.

Authoring environment for scientific publications

Case study of moving to XML-based publication workflow.

Publishing workflow system based on XML & Indesign.

Some workflow notes.

List of resources related to Beyond the PDF workshop.

Advocating scientific knowledge sharing and discovery

Newsroom CMS based on Drupal

Good comparison table.

Open source mapping tool.

OS X graphical user interface for TeX4ht that translates LaTeX files into HTML, MathML, TEI, Docbook or OpenDocument

Customizable framework for building repository-driven applications. Collaborative project of Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia working in partnership with Fedora Commons.

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering structured information. Has been used in technical publications but suitable for other applications too. Somewhat similiar to DocBook but more modern and modular.

Simplified version of Cocoon using PHP5. Neat!

Multiplatform WYSIWYG ebook editor. Has full EPUB spec support.

Collection of interesting conference presentations.

Open-source XSL-FO publishing system for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats

Open source publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and others alike. Designed for ground-up for non-technical professionals.

Publications of Open Repositories 2008 conference.

Musings on the possilibility to use social software in evaluation of scientific contributions (journal articles etc.)

Broadsheet (eg. new graphics chip Kindle 2 has, and in the future potentially many other devices) enables e-ink devices to be used for typing up to 200 words a minute. eg. the display has been divided to many small areas which can be refreshed in paraller.

Article reports on a study that measures the value of OA journals based on citation counts (ISI’s Journal Impact Factor). Compares three highly ranked commercial electronic journals to five OA electronic journals.

Generates a TeX file from Wordpress blog for printing purposes.

XML parsing palette for TextMate text editor. Checks XML and XHTML documents for well-formedness and validity in edit-time.

Tools for manipulating NLM XML.

Search for CC licensed images in Flickr.

Command-line tool for converting markup languages. Reads markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and writes markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, groff man, and S5 HTML slide shows.

High profile Drupal site.

O'Reilly publishing is now offering PDF versions of their books in single-chapter downloads. Wonderful! I hope other publishers are following.

Inspirational essay about ebooks, originally a talk given at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference [ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004 ]