1. Reading Is
A Social Activity
Todd A. Carpenter, NISO Executive Director
Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
May 31, 2012 - Arlington,VA

2. @TAC_NISO Twitter Highlights
• Will be discussing social reading today at #SSP2012 =>Socially, on twitter too!
• Trying to be funny & helpful. Pre-tweeting presentation. Slides on Slideshare! #SSP2012
• #NISO = 1/3 Publishers, 1/3 Libraries, 1/3 automation vendors - where communities converge to
develop standards #SSP2012
• There are lots of ways that standards apply to content distribution, many you don’t think of. #ssp2012
• No, I’m not going to talk about social media apps. Sorry! #ssp2012
• Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World http://bit.ly/L7tK4Y #ssp2012
• Liza Daly @liza The iPad in the Eyes of the Digerati (2010) http://nyti.ms/L7tYJk #ssp2012
• Page “147” is meaningless in a world of reflowable text? #ssp2012
• Some (imperfect) location methods of text location: Chapter/verse, char count, X-Path, pre-post text
hash #ssp2012
• If finding text marker is same edition is hard, try different editions, different versions of a text
#ssp2012
• Sharing between walled gardens is also an incredible problem #ssp2012
• There is more to annotate than simply text. There are also photos, audio, videos more... #ssp2012
• Information about two Mellon Foundation funded meetings on Social Reading: http://bit.ly/oKoeIB
#ssp2012
• Work underway at #NISO to develop an open and extensible standard for location and sharing of
annotations #ssp2012

3. Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice
Image: DanTaylor Image: Joel Washing

4. Is this what you thought I meant?

5. RealityMyth?
or

6. Larger part of reality

7. “Books have been held hostage offline for far too long.
Taking them digital will unlock their real hidden value:
the readers.”
Clive Thompson - The Future of Reading in a Digital
World in Wired Magazine 17.06 (2009)

8. A truly modern e-reader is one that is
intimately connected to the Web and
allows a user to make queries as a series
of asides, while reading or after
immersive reading has ended.
Liza Daily - Threepress Consulting, Inc

9. Connected by our
devices on a network
talking to each other

10. What’s so hard
about sharing
annotations?

11. How do we find what we
want to share?

12. What does page “147”
mean in a re-flowable
text?

13. Version Control
and
Edition variations

14. Some (imperfect) location methods
Chapter & verse?
Character count?
X-Path?
Pre/post mark hashing?

15. Walled garden, Intwood Hall by Katy Walters
Sharing between walled gardens

16. Annotation issues
we shouldn’t
ignore

17. Annotation
≠
Bookmarking

18. Annotations
Bookmarks

19. More than just text

20. Cross Media Annotation

21. NISO Working Group
on Standards for
Open Annotation

22. Two Incubation
Meetings in 2011
Funded through the generous
support of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation

23. Goal
Develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes
should be located in a digital text, especially in online
environments that might be continually updated or
mutable.

24. Working group members
Robert Bolick (Unaffiliated)
E. Ann Caldwell, Brown University Bill McCoy, IDPF
Meira Chefitz , University of Illinois Erin McKean, Wordnik
Samantha Cohen, Simon & Schuster Andrea Mercado, Copyright Clearance Center
Gary Coker, MetaPress Randall Leeds, hypothes.is
Casey Dougherty, Apple Inc. Karina Luke, Book Industry Communication
Markus Gylling, IDPF Alejandro Rodriguez, Apple Inc.
Kenneth Haase, beingmeta, inc Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe, Inc.
Baden Hughes, Cabahu Pty Ltd Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National
Megan Hurst, EBSCO Publshing Laboratory
Takeshi Kanai, Sony Peter Sorotokin, Adobe, Inc.
George Kerscher, DAISY Consortium Dan Whaley, hypothes.is
Caren Milloy, JISC Collections Mohamed Zergaoui, Innovimax SARL

25. Describing an annotation
Slide image from Dr. Robert Sanderson, Los Alamos National Lab, on SlideShare

26. Use cases vary wildly between people,
and even within people. It all depends on
the particular need, goal or subject. ...
You'd have public and private,
disconnected and connected. Just flick a
switch for your desired experience.
Mac Slocum - O'Reilly's Online Managing Editor

28. http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

29. Todd Carpenter
Executive Director
National Information Standards
Organization (NISO)
@TAC_NISO
todd@niso.org
www.niso.org