Valuing the text online in electronic publishing: formats and protocols

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To enhance the online text, several strategies are used. In particular, we work on typography and accessibility. We must also work on data exchange protocols (interoperability) as the OAI-PMH on data exchange formats, such as OPDS (Bookserver), Dublin Core, ONIX. … Read More

Parallel text

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Parallel text, or multilingual concordance, is a computer tool for managing parallel corpus. By metonymy, the multilingual concordance also designates the corpus. A parallel corpus is a collection of texts by groups such as two by two in each group, … Read More

The “ideal” characteristics of the electronic text

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Three main qualities were identified for electronic text – readability, maneuverability and quotability, to which can be added localization. Readability The broadcast in digital book must be readable. This requires: to be described by an open format, as opposed to … Read More

Closed captions

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The “CC in a TV” symbol Jack Foley created, while senior graphic designer at Boston public broadcaster WGBH that invented captioning for television, is public domain so that anyone who captions TV programs can use it. Closed captioning is the … Read More