Laurent LE MEUR, European digital Reading Lab

How Open Source drives innovation - Table ronde

boost the digital publishing ecosystem

Readium open-source software

Laurent Le MeurCTO EDRLab

Information, knowledge dissemination

"Access to information and knowledge is the single most powerful tool available to promote

world peace" (G. Kerscher, DAISY)

• Built on web technologies ((X)HTML5, SVG, MathML, XML, JSON ...)• For readers (multi-columns, pages, TOC, glossaries, bookmarks,

annotations)• In reflow or fixed-layout mode• Allowing rich content + accessibility (media overlays)• Protected (watermarking, usage rights)• Packaged as a unique publication file (zip)

=> Search for interoperability, accessibility, flexibility

Born-digital publicationsEPUB3

Reality check

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“my castle my rules”

Lack of ● Interoperability● Accessibility● Flexibility● Usability

EDRLab in the digital publishing ecosystem

Organisational, technicalInnovation by EDRLab

A new answerOpen-source / open standard, JS / C++, Web techno, non-profit,

dedicated agile team, Europe with USA, publishers + solution vendors

To an old problemInteroperability, Accessibility, Flexibility, Usability

(Twitter: @lmrlaurent, @Cyril_EDRLab)

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