eBooks
This shortened term for "electronic publication" is the official standard of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
What is EPUB?
This standard markup language for creating web pages is currently in release 5.3
What is HTML (HyperText Markup Language)?
This sector includes the publishing of books and magazines for the public's general interest.
What is consumer publishing?
This set of data provides information about other data.
What is metadata?
This term refers to the inclusion of people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and other characteristics.
What is diversity?
Digital rights management (DRM) tools and technologies provide protection for these.
This markup language is used to structure data for storage and transport. It represents the text and structure of the content document, but does not show when the document is viewed.
What is eXtensible Markup Language (XML)?
This publishing sector, which makes factual information readily available, was one of the first to move into the digital publishing model.
What is reference publishing?
This metadata schema uses 15 core elements for describing an item. One of these elements, title, appears as dc:title
What is Dublin Core?
This term refers to a set of defined, specific, unambiguous instructions for an operation, especially as performed by a computer. Online, series of these dictate actions taken on a website, such as what results are returned from an internet search.
What is an algorithm?
This author debuted the first mass market ebook online in 2000, which reached at least 400,000 downloads and crashed computers due to format issues.
Who is Stephen King?
This language describes the presentation of markup languages, such as HTML. It can be adapted to different types of devices and allows for multiple pages to have the same design applied to them.
What is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?
This sector involves publishing the work of researchers in journals. One of the hot topics in it is the open access movement.
What is academic publishing?
This type of technology, which includes braille display devices, describes devices created for people with disabilities. Information about how a publication interacts with this technology can be included in accessibility metadata.
What is assistive technology?
This term refers to creative materials that are owned by the public. They are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws, and do not need a creative commons license. Anyone can use these materials, but no one can ever own them.
What is the public domain?
This term describes what separates one product from another: why the product is considered superior and more valuable than another.
What is a Unique Selling Point (USP)?
What will this look like when displayed on the web?
H1 { text-align: center; font-size: 60px; font-color: purple; font-weight: bold }
What is the largest heading with center-aligned, 60 pixel sized, purple, bold text?
This publishing sector is very cost sensitive, and its products are evaluated by boards before being used in broader systems.
What is educational publishing?
These are freely available, open licensed, digitally published materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and assessment.
What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
This type of license is selected by a creator and gives people the right to share, use, and build upon a work in ways that the creator approves.
What is Creative Commons?
In this EPUB format, the alignment remains the same across screen sizes. It is useful for image-heavy pubs, such as comic books.
What is fixed format?
The goal of this "Web of data" is to make web data easier for computers to process and humans to discover. It refers to a web of linked data, where access is provided to data as well as information about the relationships between data.
What is the semantic web?
Personal lending has been an ongoing issue with this publishing sector: for example, a person can not lend an e-book to another the same way they can a physical one.
What is consumer publishing?
This term refers to written copy that is used in place of an image on the web. It can describe images to visually impaired readers as well as people with low broadband connections or other issues that prevent viewing images online. It is not used for purely decorative elements.
What is alternative text?
This term refers to making content usable to people regardless of impairment. It is important to consider for everyone, not just people with “special” needs.
What is accessibility?