Presentation 2013-05-26
Standard Functions of e-Textbook and Verification of Compatibility with use of ePub Materials
Toshiya NAKAJIMA, Shun SHINOHARA, Yasuhisa TAMURA,
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Abstract(in English) This paper shows typical functions required on electronic textbooks to be adopted in various countries, trial implementation of these functions, and their verification of representation and behavior in six e-book platforms. First, the authors extracted the functions by checking preceding researches and investigations. The result contains 52 items, including 7 categories of "authentication", "copyright", "contents representation", "related information", "additional information by learners", "learning support", and "restriction of contents and platforms". Next, these functions were implemented with ePub3 format e-books. ePub3 is going to be one of de jure standard format of e-books. Also, contents representation and behavior of the result ePub e-books were verified on 6 types of e-book platforms on operating systems of iOS, Android, Windows, and Kindle Linux. The verification result shows that iBooks3 on iOS worked best among the 6 e-book readers. Also it shows that many e-book readers support only representation of ePub2 files, while HTML5, JavaScript, and Web API are not supported yet.
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Keyword(in English) Electronic textbook / Required functions / ePub3 / Compatibility
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Title (in English) Standard Functions of e-Textbook and Verification of Compatibility with use of ePub Materials
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Keyword(1) Electronic textbook
Keyword(2) Required functions
Keyword(3) ePub3
Keyword(4) Compatibility
1st Author's Name Toshiya NAKAJIMA
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Science and Technology, Sophia University()
2nd Author's Name Shun SHINOHARA
2nd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Science and Technology, Sophia University
3rd Author's Name Yasuhisa TAMURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University
Date 2013-05-26
Paper # ET2013-5
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 67
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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