BookBook Development Notes

Topics to cover on 26 Jan 2018

1. Review of feedback

   • Exporting to pdf

   • “Chunk the chapters!”

   • Opening links in new tab

   • Plan for our 72 OA titles

   • Summary text taken from the MITP website

     • Let’s discuss how we want the PubPub landing page to differ from MITP Open on website

2. New BookBook Architecture

   • Search function

   • Chapters/flow

   • Table of Contents layout

Please use this space to record your notes and ideas after reviewing BookBook and Frankenstein.

BookBook page

·      Links should open in a new tab

·      Summary text should flow from Books (with the opening ref to City of Bits) to Journals, i.e. move the last graf (“To view our OA book titles,  . . .”) up and make it the second graf.

·      I cn’t find the Palfrey book at this page (or listed in the PDF title list); it notes that I “can scroll through the following web pages” but it’s not clear how you do that (I created an account but that action doesn’t provide more functionality).  I searched on “Palfrey” and cwas returned a “no results” page.

·      AWill

ll 72 OA books be made available in PubPub? As PDFs? 

Frankenbook

·      The cover takes up too much valuable above-the-fold real estate

A brief summary (catalogue description) would be useful. ·      Would like an option to easily export to PDF

from HTML.·      The full text (all volumes) are difficult to navigate.  Chunk the chapters.  The right rail doesn’t quite give me a meaningful sense of my location within the book.  Anchors don’t quite sync with chapter starts.  Perhaps treat contents as a pulldo-wn menu, as in this example from Manifold:

https://manifold.umn.edu/read/72fb8acf-3f25-4ea4-a486-7a810ff81354/section/bced9653-a3da-4d40-8ded-56a64af0eea2#ch12

·      Kindle location feature (horizontal across the bottom of the pageview, with slider, % status, location, &c. offers a data-based view of the linear progression through a book and is easier to parse.

·      I’m getting a “Franken” experience on mobile devises.  The right nav rail is obscuring (ghosting over) the text, which isn’t resizing/reflowable.

the first footnote in the Preface seems to show “Frankenbook” as a lens

• this is added to all annotations that appeared in the print edition

Hyperlink author names to author profiles on the web?

• plan is to link their names to a PubPub profile, which wil include links to personal websites and affiliated orgs

In About Frankenbook it says there are 8 themes but there are nine active now.

The essays contain references to page numbers in the text. Could these be linked back to the appropriate point in the text instead?

• yes, done.

The Douglas essay title is capitalized entirely while the others are not.

• thank you!

The reference list is missing as are the notes from the editors’ preface and introduction. The front matter would likely benefit from a TOC at the top linking to the preface, acknowledgements, and introduction.

The text in the annotations isn’t linkable in the same way as it is in the main body text.

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