An Ambarrassment of Riches

Written by Sam Vaknin


Continued from page 1
Now imagine you are an online retailer, a syndicator or a reporter for an online news service and you are reading a review in "Publishers Weekly" about Communities of Commerce and you run across a link to related resources. And imagine you are in Buenos Aires, and in an online publication you encounter a link to "D-Lib Magazine", an electronic journal produced in Washington, D.C. which offers you locale-specific choices for downloading an article. The above examples demonstrate how multiple resolution can present you with a list of links from within an electronic document or page. The links beneathrepparttar labels - URLs and email addresses - would all be stored inrepparttar 108507 DOI System, and multiple resolution means any or all of those links can be displayed for you to select from in one menu. Any combination of links to related resources can be included in these menus. Capable of providing much richer experiences then single resolution to a URL, Multiple Resolution operates onrepparttar 108508 premise that content, not its location, is identified. In other words, where content and related resources reside is secondary information. Multiple Resolution enables content owners and distributors to identify their intellectual property with bound collections of related resources at a hyperlink's point of departure, instead of requiring a user to leaverepparttar 108509 page to go to a new location for further information. A content owner controls and manages allrepparttar 108510 related resources in each of these menus and can determine which information is accessible to each business partner withinrepparttar 108511 supply chain. When an administrator changes any facet of this information,repparttar 108512 change is simultaneous on all internal networks andrepparttar 108513 Internet. A DOI is a permanent identifier, analogous to a telephone number for life, so tomorrow and years from now a user can locaterepparttar 108514 product and related resources wherever they may have been moved or archived to."

The IDF provides a limited, text-only, online demonstration. When sweeping withrepparttar 108515 cursor over a linked item, a pop-down menu of options is presented. These options are pre-defined and customized byrepparttar 108516 content creators and owners. Inrepparttar 108517 first example above (book purchase options)repparttar 108518 DOI resolves to retail outlets (categorized by book formats), information aboutrepparttar 108519 title andrepparttar 108520 author, digital rights management information (permissions), and more. The DOI server generates this information in "real time", "onrepparttar 108521 fly". But it isrepparttar 108522 author, or (more often)repparttar 108523 publisher that chooserepparttar 108524 information, its modes of presentation, selections, and marketing and sales data. The ingenuity is inrepparttar 108525 fact thatrepparttar 108526 DOI server's files and records can be updated, replaced, or deleted. It does not affectrepparttar 108527 resolution path - onlyrepparttar 108528 content resolved to.

Which brings us to e-publishing.

Second part of Embarrassment of Riches - here:

http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb17.html



Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com.

Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com




E(merging) Books

Written by Sam Vaknin


Continued from page 1

E-books, hitherto, have largely been nothing but an ephemeral rendition of their print predecessors. But e-books are another medium altogether. They can and will provide a different reading experience. Consider "hyperlinks withinrepparttar e-book and without it - to web content, reference works, etc., embedded instant shopping and ordering links, divergent, user-interactive, decision driven plotlines, interaction with other e-books (using Bluetooth or another wireless standard), collaborative authoring, gaming and community activities, automatically or periodically updated content, ,multimedia capabilities, database, Favourites and History Maintenance (records of reading habits, shopping habits, interaction with other readers, plot related decisions and much more), automatic and embedded audio conversion and translation capabilities, full wireless piconetworking and scatternetworking capabilities and more".



Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, United Press International (UPI) and eBookWeb and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com.

Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com




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