The National Information Standards Organization and the Internet
Archive are hosting two meetings on the topic of Standards Development
for E-Book Annotation Sharing and Social Reading, with the generous
support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These meetings will be
held in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair in Frankfurt,
Germany, and the Books In Browsers Meeting in San Francisco. Both
meetings will be held in October 2011 on the 10th and 26th
respectively.
The meetings will focus on advancing two specific goals: 1) providing
input to a NISO sponsored working group on its scope, goals and any
initial work the group undertakes; and 2) the advancement of a syntax
specification that will be further vetted by a standards working group
for how bookmarks and annotations are located in digital books.
While there will be some short presentations to set the stage, these
are mainly working meetings with group activities and discussions.
Attendees will be expected to be active participants in the
discussions. A complete agenda of the day’s activities can be found
at: http://www.niso.org/topics/ccm/e-book_annotation/
Both of these events are free of charge. To register as a participant
for either event, please e-mail [log in to unmask] and indicate which
meeting (Frankfurt Book Fair or San Franciso Books in Browsers) you
want to attend.
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 301-654-2512
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