Beyond a paper book, an eBook is a good step whatever the format.
PDF is OK, but HTML is probably better - especially if it has semantic markup (e.g. using schema.org microdata) and lots of web links.
In general, Linked Open Data in a Resource Description Framework format is the way to go IMHO. Linking and making all data Linked Data is key, even if this data is not open data or immediately accessible. Start with metadata and important data sets and common variables and build a web of data and linked facts.
It would be great to have the full provenance of every statistic openly accessible so it can be scrutinised.
For factual encyclopaedic things that link to a balance of argument rather than a single interpretation then developing wikipedia articles is probably a good way forwards. Done well this will get turned into a more structured form and released via DBPedia.
Although 10 years is a long time, I think and hope we will still have wikipedia then.
May the force be with you :-)
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John, you are asking for far too much to expect that anything we decide now will necessarily be relevant in 2025. It may be, but we can't expect that. This is one of the fundamental messages in Keynes' conception of uncertainty. While I agree with looking forward, nothing we come up with will be future proof. Simply because nothing is. Even the nature of the media will likely have altered by then. Although I think some of the items you mention may well have a long life in them. I am by no means an expert on this sort of thing; I am making only a general point. Indeed, your ideas are better than any I could have come up with.
Larry
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Subject: Discussion re Radstats book - getting BEYOND a book - what different media?
There was some recent discussion of content for a future Radstats book.
However, I would like to ask should we go BEYOND the idea of just having a book i.e. develop MORE than a book? NB: I am asking for ideas here about FORMAT(s), not about content. We are at the pre-brainstorming stage: all possibilities neeed to be considered.
What extra formats could be considered? We want a future-proof something, that still looks modern, crisp and relevant even in 2025.
Among the additional formats which spring to mind are the following, about most of which I know next to nothing:
* e-publications of various forms, including e-book, pdfs etc which could be easily sold on the www (either whole book or individual chapters)
* traditional 'social media': Twitter, Facebook, and what else?
* non-traditional social media: e.g. Meetups, hackathons, RadstatsJams - I don't know what all these things mean but maybe I should
* blogs
* open data
* open software
* lots of other things besides ........ including things that have not yet been invented.
I'd welcome advice on expanding such a list, so we can then brainstorm knowing we have tried to consider all eventualities.
I'd particularly welcome advice from recent book-authors or others who may have wrestled with similar questions - the end-question being how to get new ideas disseminated as far as possible using all imagineable technologies. I'd also welcome contacts in the publishing industry who may come up with forward-looking ideas.
Thanks for looking at this. Please forward to anyone you know who may be knowledgable in this area e.g. publishing professionals, bloggers, etc..
JOHN BIBBY
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