digital publishing, variable data printing, layout and composition, automatic image cropping, XSL-FO One recurring problem in Variable Data Printing (VDP) is that the existing contents cannot satisfy the VDP task as-is. So there is a strong need for content fitting technologies to support high-value digital publishing applications, in which text and image are the two major types of contents. Th...

The McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center (http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu), a unit within the Houston Academy of Medicine Texas Medical Center Library (HAM-TMC Library), is building a web-based digital library of medical history concentrating on the State of Texas and the Texas Medical Center. Our goals are to increase the awareness and utilization of the large, rare, and cultura...

During the creation of a university digital library and press intended to serve as a medical reference and education tool for health care providers and their patients, six distinct and complex digital publishing challenges were encountered. Over nine years, through a multidisciplinary approach, solutions were devised to the challenges of digital content ownership, management, mirroring, transla...

MeDoc is a German digital library project bringing together 7 developing institutions and 24 pilot user institutions as well as 12 international publishing houses. MeDoc provides uniform access to a variety of information sources and an information broker service. MeDoc ooers a range of billable digital books and journals contributed by the participating publishing houses. Operating a digital l...

aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...