The ELBA Project ELectronic Book for Adults

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The ELBA Project(ELectronic Book for Adults)

• e-Book Form Style Format

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E-Book Formation

• Three (3) essential points of debate concerning
  the formation of the ELBA Projects e-Book
• Digitized Form
• Content Structure (Layout)
• Style Format

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e-Book Digitized Form

• Two (2) solutions overviewed
• E-book in the form of Program Application
  (executable file)
• E-Book in the form of Digitized Document (e.g.
  Word, PDF, OpenOffice, etc)
• Second Solution finally selected

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e-Book Digitized Form Form of Application

• E-book in the form of Application (executable
  file)
• Advantages
• Visual Effects (e.g. moving pages)
• Possible Advanced Content Operations (Searching,
  Matching etc) in case we developed an application
  of our own
• Disadvantages
• USER instead of READER
• Specific Programming Skills (in case of a
  development of our own) ? Hard to construct by
  non-programmers ? Digitization courses almost
  impossible
• or
• Specific (and non widely used) Program Products
  to produce the final outcome ? Out of our
  digitization courses aim.

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e-Book Digitized Form Form of Document

• E-book in the form of a Document (with special
  navigation abilities)
• Disadvantages
• Absence of Visual Effects and Advanced Content
  Operations
• Advantages
• READER not USER (it is still a book more
  familiar form to all readers )
• The necessary navigation requirements are
  provided through internal links.
• Easy to construct with the most common in use
  editor programs ? Digitization courses easy and
  effective

? IS it Really ?
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e-Book Digitized Form

• Outcome A document-like form has been selected
• Basic Features
• Basic book structure (table of contents,
  sections, subsections, Appendices etc)
• Internal links for easier navigation
• Current Available Draft
• Created with MS Word
• Converted to PDF format with Adobe Acrobat

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e-Book Structure

• Demand in Content from each Country
• A set of POEMS
• Short BIOGRAPHIES of the corresponding POETS
• Both in two languages English the countrys
  language
• Main Issue
• How to organize the Content layout so that six
  (6) different languages could co-exist in a
  harmonic, non-confusing for the reader way.

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e-Book Structure Introductive Sections

• The following sections are in English
• Cover (Page 1)
• General info about licensing, publishing etc
  (Page 2)
• Table of Contents (Page 3)
• The ELBA Project (Page 4)
• Short presentation of the ELBA Project
• Prologue (Pages 5 6)
• Foreword (Pages 7 more)
• Small presentation of the e-book performed by
  an external person

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e-Book Structure Main Body

• Main Body Structure
• Six (6) main sections deploying the literature
  content of each country
• Cyprus Section
• Greek Section
• Italian Section
• Lithuanian Section
• Spanish Section
• Turkish Section

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e-Book Structure Countrys X Section Structure

• Overview
• Short presentation of the countrys historical
  and social framework of the literatures period
  presented (English)
• List of Poets
• New page with the list of the countrys X poets
  presented in the e-book. Each item links to a
  Poet Section (English)
• Poet Section
• Name
• Portrait
• Short Biography (English Original Language)
• Poets POEMS (English Original Language)

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e-Book Structure Concluding Sections

• Acknowledgements (English)
• Bibliography
• Appendix (I)
• Elba Project, Prologue, Foreword
  Acknowledgments Sections in all 5 original
  languages (Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Spanish,
  Turkish)

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e-Book Structure Navigation Issues

• Navigation is succeeded through the use of
  internal links.
• Cases of Internal Links Use
• Table Of Contents ? Corresponding Section
• List of Poets (for every country) ? Name of poet
  in the corresponding Poets subsection
• From the Sections ELBA Project, Prologue,
  Foreword, Acknowledgements of the English version
  to the corresponding sections in the Appendix (I)
  Section where the original languages lay and vice
  versa (return link).
• Return link from every page to the Table Contents
  
• Return link from the end of each countrys poem
  to the list of its poets

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e-Book Style Format Definitions

• Section
• Table of Contents
• The ELBA Project
• Prologue
• Foreword
• Countrys X Literature section
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Every Countrys X literature is divided in the
  following Subsections
• Overview
• List of Poets
• Countrys X Poets section
• Countrys X Poems section

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e-Book Style Format Sections Style Format

• Table of Contents
• Title Tahoma, bold, 18pt
• List of Contents Times New Roman, 12pt
• The ELBA Project, Prologue, Foreword,
  Acknowledgements
• Title Tahoma, bold, 18pt
• Text Times New Roman, 12pt
• Bibliography
• Title Tahoma, bold, 18pt
• Bibliography References number Author
  Name, Title, Town, Year Times New Roman,
  12pt
• Countrys X Literature Section
• Title Tahoma, bold, 18pt
• Overview Subsection see Subsection Style Format
• Poets Subsections see Subsection Style Format
• Poems Subsections see Subsection Style Format

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e-Book Style Format Subsections Style Format
(Country X)

• Overview
• Title Tahoma, 16pt
• Text Times New Roman, 12pt
• List of Poets Subsection
• Title (e.g. List of Greek Poets, List of
  Lithuanian) Tahoma, bold, 16pt
• List of poets Two columns list of poets, Times
  New Roman, 12pt
• Poets Subsection
• Name of Poet Tahoma, bold, 16pt
• Portrait of poet 3cm x 3cm
• Poets short biography text in English Times
  New Roman, 12pt
• Poets short biography text in countrys X
  language Times New Roman, 12pt
• Poets Poems
• Poem Subsection
• English version and the countrys original
  language version of the poem side by side in a
  two columns new page.
• Poem Title and Year of Creation Tahoma, bold,
  12pt
• Poem text Arial Narrow, 10pt

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