#OSSPARIS15 - Keynote SOCIETY How Open Source drives Innovation ? table-ronde Intervenant : Laurent LE MEUR, European digital reading lab

1. Laurent LE MEUR, European digital
Reading Lab
How Open Source drives innovation - Table
ronde

2. boost the digital publishing
ecosystem
Readium open-source software
Laurent Le Meur
CTO EDRLab

3. Information, knowledge dissemination
"Access to information and knowledge is the
single most powerful tool available to promote
world peace"
(G. Kerscher, DAISY)

4. • Built on web technologies ((X)HTML5, SVG, MathML, XML, JSON ...)
• For readers (multi-columns, pages, TOC, glossaries, bookmarks,
annotations)
• In reflow or fixed-layout mode
• Allowing rich content + accessibility (media overlays)
• Protected (watermarking, usage rights)
• Packaged as a unique publication file (zip)
=> Search for interoperability, accessibility, flexibility
Born-digital publications
EPUB3

5. Reality check
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“my castle my rules”
Lack of
● Interoperability
● Accessibility
● Flexibility
● Usability

6. EDRLab in the digital publishing ecosystem

7. Organisational, technical
Innovation by EDRLab
A new answer
Open-source / open standard, JS / C++, Web techno, non-profit,
dedicated agile team, Europe with USA, publishers + solution vendors
To an old problem
Interoperability, Accessibility, Flexibility, Usability
(Twitter: @lmrlaurent, @Cyril_EDRLab)
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