eBook Authoring System Design and Development
Mohamed Menacer, Amar Arbaoui
Journal of Data Processing, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2013.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jdp/fulltext/v3n3/2.pdf
Abstract:
This paper presents the design and development of an authoring system for creating and building an application program for an eBook package, or an eBook portfolio, that would include metadata, meta-content, and other related materials and resources that are stored in a dedicated database. This system is basically a digitization process of the different phases of eBook authoring and development, as well as a structure collection of various types of content and information in a form of hypertext documents, multimedia, and presentations. Although the open eBook format standard has been developed in the late 1990s, it has been mainly driven by commercial and marketing issues in mind rather than academic or/and technical focus. The standard is to some extent limited, in the opinion of the authors, in some technical aspects, i.e. advanced search and indexations, as well as in the subject matter areas such as education where content requires more and diverse representations of the academic content.The authoring system, being proposed, has been designed with academic books in mind, it is still very much suitable for any type of documentation or eContent such as articles, papers, reports, and presentations. This approach of eBook and eContent authoring and development is very useful for online search, manipulation, indexing, distribution and even marketing purposes. Based on the proposed content structured content, web content can be easily and reliably accessible for search and information retrieval. Furthermore, Natural Language Processing techniques such as text mining, indexing, tagging, information retrieval for online content document processing would be implemented more reliable and efficiently. Overall design concepts and development of the authoring system approach is presented in this paper with the different phases involved.