BooksOnline 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Paul B. Kantor, Gabriella Kazai, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ross Wilkinson (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories, BooksOnline 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-249-8

Enriched digitized books

Riccardo Mazza:
The integrated eBook: the convergence of ebook, companion web site, and elearning. 1-4
Bob Stein:
A unified field theory of publishing in the networked era. 5-8
Mark T. J. Carden:
E-Books are not books. 9-12
Carlos J. C. Teixeira:
Multimedia enriched digital books. 13-16
Judith Gelernter, Michael E. Lesk:
Traditional resources help interpret texts. 17-20

Usage scenarios and user experience

Gene Golovchinsky:
Reading in the office. 21-24
Jae-Kyung Kim, Rosta Farzan, Peter Brusilovsky:
Social navigation and annotation for electronic books. 25-28
Claire Warwick, Ray Siemens, Stan Ruecker:
Codex Redux: books and new knowledge environments. 29-32
Monica Landoni:
The active reading task: e-books and their readers. 33-36
Nina Wacholder:
How should users access the content of digital books? 37-40

Content representation and discoverability

Catherine C. Marshall:
Collection-level analysis tools for books online. 41-44
Prakash Reddy, Jian Fan, Jim Rowson, Steven Rosenberg, Andrew Bolwell:
A web service for long tail book publishing. 45-48
Magdy Nagi, Tarcisio Della Senta:
Sharing knowledge across language barriers: a universal approach for online books. 49-52
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish:
Book search: indexing the valuable parts. 53-56
Xiaonan Lu, Brewster Kahle:
Automatic metadata generation for scanned scientific volumes. 57-58
Geneva L. Henry, Lisa M. Spiro:
Feasibility of a primarily digital research library. 59-62