Cover flow is not that useful when you have 1.000 pieces of information, is it? You need Discovery facilities: Search, smart browse using facets, Geospatial location, etc As devices grow in computing power and usability, we’ll be able to perform sophisticaded information discovery which is difficult with the current mobile apps.
Context-aware Mobile Apps adapt the Information, User experience and application behavior to match a specific user request or preferences.
Changing from: Deliver the right information to the right people at the right time in the right format.consumers expect fast, useful access to relevant, targeted content regardless of the device used to display it It’s easier than ever to reach a new audience, but harder than ever to really connect to it Most organizations have yet to respond to these changes in any strategic, systematic way “eBook publishing isn’t really about books. It’s about delivering business critical content to users when and where they need it, in a convenient, flexible, accessible, value-added format.”-Scott Abel
USBS slide, ipad = fun, stressful, indiferent
Think Small!Creating the products users want will require publishers to think small -- little chunks of content for a variety of uses. As noted in Insights (JISC Report Gives Insight Into E-book Usage April 6, 2009), previously-released results of the JISC study found that the e-text books were read online in short bursts and not downloaded. Sitting, reading and highlighting may be what reference and text books were designed for, but e-texts are about grab-and-go. If it's electronic, the content itself should be available for manipulation and re-use. Capabilities like self-testing; Knovel-like manipulation of tables and graphs; easy citation; and a quick way to send snippets to a hard-drive (or iPod) for offline use; or to send to study partners or professors with questions, will all be expected by those young people who don't "read." Another of the obvious use cases for text and reference books is that of teaching faculty. Professors want to grab tables, figures, charts and paragraphs for Power Point presentations; mash-up content from various sources for customized syllabi; share lesson plans and trade information about what works and what they like or don't like. A different use case would be engineers who need to have certain tables and specifications at hand on a mobile device when in the field and out of wireless range. Whether you look at it from the professional, student, or teacher point-of-view, crucial capabilities for creating the product of the future reside in the way the content is formatted and stored - in identifiable micro-chunks, in many cases smaller than sections and chapters. So if your ambitions for the future of e-books are big - start thinking small. Think Small!Creating the products users want will require publishers to think small -- little chunks of content for a variety of uses. As noted in Insights (JISC Report Gives Insight Into E-book Usage April 6, 2009), previously-released results of the JISC study found that the e-text books were read online in short bursts and not downloaded. Sitting, reading and highlighting may be what reference and text books were designed for, but e-texts are about grab-and-go. If it's electronic, the content itself should be available for manipulation and re-use. Capabilities like self-testing; Knovel-like manipulation of tables and graphs; easy citation; and a quick way to send snippets to a hard-drive (or iPod) for offline use; or to send to study partners or professors with questions, will all be expected by those young people who don't "read." Another of the obvious use cases for text and reference books is that of teaching faculty. Professors want to grab tables, figures, charts and paragraphs for Power Point presentations; mash-up content from various sources for customized syllabi; share lesson plans and trade information about what works and what they like or don't like. A different use case would be engineers who need to have certain tables and specifications at hand on a mobile device when in the field and out of wireless range. Whether you look at it from the professional, student, or teacher point-of-view, crucial capabilities for creating the product of the future reside in the way the content is formatted and stored - in identifiable micro-chunks, in many cases smaller than sections and chapters. So if your ambitions for the future of e-books are big - start thinking small.
Infrastructure enables a broad range of potential and often unanticipated applicationsThink Small!Creating the products users want will require publishers to think small -- little chunks of content for a variety of uses. As noted in Insights (JISC Report Gives Insight Into E-book Usage April 6, 2009), previously-released results of the JISC study found that the e-text books were read online in short bursts and not downloaded. Sitting, reading and highlighting may be what reference and text books were designed for, but e-texts are about grab-and-go. If it's electronic, the content itself should be available for manipulation and re-use. Capabilities like self-testing; Knovel-like manipulation of tables and graphs; easy citation; and a quick way to send snippets to a hard-drive (or iPod) for offline use; or to send to study partners or professors with questions, will all be expected by those young people who don't "read." Another of the obvious use cases for text and reference books is that of teaching faculty. Professors want to grab tables, figures, charts and paragraphs for Power Point presentations; mash-up content from various sources for customized syllabi; share lesson plans and trade information about what works and what they like or don't like. A different use case would be engineers who need to have certain tables and specifications at hand on a mobile device when in the field and out of wireless range. Whether you look at it from the professional, student, or teacher point-of-view, crucial capabilities for creating the product of the future reside in the way the content is formatted and stored - in identifiable micro-chunks, in many cases smaller than sections and chapters. So if your ambitions for the future of e-books are big - start thinking small.
Discovery facilities: Search, smart browse using facets, Geospatial locationCover flow is not that useful when you have 1.000 pieces of information, is it? You need Discovery facilities: Search, smart browse using facets, Geospatial location, etc As devices grow in computing power and usability, we’ll be able to perform sophisticated information discovery which is difficult with the current mobile apps.
AlertingNewalerting capabilities for content application allow users to have the content they are interested in delivered to them.Add alerting to an existing content applications Build new alerting applications Monitor “millions” of rules and compare that to a large number of documents during ingestion. (worth mentioning the scalability) create alerts and be notified as soon as new relevant content is loaded vs. continuously or repeatedly looking for new contentCombine document portion, geospatial, and entity co-occurrence in one alert across structured, semi-structured and unstructured dataEasily monitor information critical to mission goals because new data is instantly routed to the appropriate person based on relevance