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OpenReader Consortium | |
Formation | Docs |
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Founder | Rick Barry, Michael Day, Jon Noring, Lee Passey, David Rothman |
Purpose | Developing open digital publication standards |
Website | http://jonnoring.net/OpenReader/index.html |
The OpenReader Consortium is a nonprofit organization developing open digital publication standards. [1] [ non-primary source needed ] The project is in "cold storage" now, having been unable to successfully amass enough users for the formats it developed; they will continue their battle for open standards within the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). [2]
Its co-founders were:
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The consortium considers its chief success to be successfully getting the IDPF to take open digital publication standards seriously, which eventually led to the development of the EPUB format. [2]
The consortium considers its chief failure to be its lack of developer and publisher support (despite its support by OSoft), which prevented it from being able to successfully deploy an open standard in the marketplace. [2]
From 2009, their campaign for open publication standards was to happen within IDPF; their recommendations include branding the EPUB standard and emphasizing its non-DRM side. [2] [7] On 30 January 2017, IDPF and the World Wide Web Consortium officially merged with each other. [8] [ relevant? ]
The consortium was able to indirectly develop the EPUB format, [2] which was introduced in 2007 by the IDPF as the successor to the Open eBook format. [9] EPUB documents can be marked up in XHTML or DTBook. [9] EPUB documents conform to three IDPF standards: Open Publication Structure (OPS), which defines the markup language; Open Container Format (OCF), a zipped archive with extension .EPUB that contains the marked-up document; and an Open Packaging Format (OPF) file that references everything in the OCF, provides metadata, and ties the file together. [9] [ clarification needed ]
The consortium also developed the OpenReader format, an XML-based text format with components from the Open eBook format for ebooks, articles, documents, news, and publications with graphics and which supports digital rights management. [10] (The Open eBook format is an XML-based ebook and web publishing standard introduced by the IDPF in 1999 as the "Open eBook Publication Structure Specification" and last updated in 2002. [11] Open eBook publications are not read directly by ebook devices, but are rather first compiled into a proprietary format. [11] ) Readers for the OpenReader format include Thout Reader, launched by Osoft in 2006 in beta and later renamed dotReader, although this was not enough for this to gain critical mass. [10] The Thout Reader software allowed readers to distribute notes to each other via Osoft servers. [10]
The OpenReader Consortium has developed the following specifications:
As of 2006, the OpenReader Consortium has also been developing the following specifications: [12]
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