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Dear Members of the IDPF,
I am seeking re-election to the IDPF Board of Directors.
IDPF holds a unique opportunity to advance the future of reading and creative
expression. I believe that IDPF’s goal should not merely be to reinvigorate EPUB
for digital books, but to support newer forms of text-reliant digital
expression, and embrace new forms of publication with books, journals,
magazines, and manga.
The future of the published word can no longer take refuge in an indolent
translation of print for digital markets; it is in the pushing and scraping into
new realms of communication. Using simple, common Internet protocols and network
architectures, books and magazines are already being re-imagined. IDPF must
inform a vision of writing and publishing as an art to which anyone can apply,
and where reading is done in groups as well as in solitude; in silence, or in
speech; by touch and feel as well as by sight.
EPUB can support both traditional storytelling and newer forms of social
association and experience through linked data. Digital books and literature are
not islands, but elements of a growing, rich web of data, and IDPF’s ability to
build ties between books, markets, and social commentary will be critical in
coming years. IDPF should assist new and allied standards, such as the
Atom-based Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), and form cross-industry
alliances to support mobile reading. Future iterations of EPUB should deepen
support for assisted reading, and catalyze and endorse strategies for rights and
identifier metadata; versioning; and other digital affordances.
Ultimately, IDPF is a member organization for all those who advance literature:
libraries, readers, and the communities they build. Please help re-elect me to
the IDPF Board.
Thank you,
Peter Brantley
Bio:
Peter Brantley is the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet
Archive, a San Francisco based not-for-profit digital library. At the Archive,
Peter has fostered the development and adoption of the Open Publication
Distribution System (OPDS). With Gary Reback, he is co-founder of the Open Book
Alliance, seeking an open and competitive market for digital books. Prior to
working at the Internet Archive, he was Executive Director of the Digital
Library Federation. He has been a member of the IDPF Board since 2007, and was
active in the OEBF's Rights and Rules committee (in the dark ages).
Peter held a landmark summit on digital book discovery, Reading 2.0, in 2006,
and recently led the BookServer meeting ("Make Books Apparent"), helping to
create a web of books for distributed discovery and access. He has served on the
Program Committee for O'Reilly Media's Tools of Change since its inception in
2007, and runs an influential email list on transformations in publishing. Peter
has discussed and presented on strategic issues relating to publishing,
libraries, organizational change, and reading at forums including the European
Commission, O’Reilly’s Tools of Change, the Coalition of Networked Information,
Educause, Internet2, the Smithsonian Institution, and private meetings supported
by the Sloan, Hewlett, and Mellon Foundations.
He reads EPUB books on a Sony Reader Pocket Edition.
View all candidate nomination statements here.
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