In collaboration with NuvoMedia, Inc., STG has provided a validation service for electronic books. This service enabled authors and publishers to test their publications for conformance with Open eBook Publication Structure 1.0. STG played a leading role in the development of the Open eBook Publication Structure 1.0. STG's specific objective in this project was to ensure that the OEB PS 1.0 standard was based on sound scientific and engineering research and reflected best practice in document architecture standards -- in order to create a high-performance interoperable data specification that would provide broad-based benefits to commerce and culture. A particular concern was to align OEB with current work in the W3C (particularly XML-related standards), promote the rigorous separation of structure and rendering semantics, and design mechanisms for disciplined extensions (to reconcile supporting innovation with maintaining interoperability). In addition we wanted to establish a foundation for supporting internationalization. For its role in this project STG received a formal commendation from the US Department of Commerce, National Institute for Standards and Technology.
The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), a cross-departmental group in the Brown University Library, supports digital scholarship for the Brown community and beyond by supporting scholarly and academic activities that are conducted or enhanced through the use of digital technology …
