There’s a great deal of valuable information in this recently-released white paper by The American Council of Learned Societies: ACLS Humanities E-Book XML Conversion Experiment: Report on Workflow, Costs, and User Preferences. Although the study was based on scholarly books, their findings would apply to many other digitization projects.
The Humanities E-Book (HEB) project took [...]
O’Reilly Media will be posting a complete recording of the presentation, but in the meantime I’ve posted the slides from the webcast, “What publishers need to know about digitization” on Slideshare.
Thanks to everyone who attended and especially to those who asked so many excellent questions.
What publishers need to know about digitization
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The last set of Gutenberg HTML books that were planned for demonstration on threepress have been added. As usual, data-loading took more time and uncovered up more problems than expected, which is always a reason to add as many samples as possible. This set includes one non-fiction book (On the Origin of Species) and one [...]