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The ALTO Editorial Board: Collaboration

and Cooperation across Borders

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What is ALTO?

Analyzed Layout and Text Object (ALTO) standard is a XML schema of metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources such as pages of a book or a newspaper.

ALTO captures technical details of text pages such as the position of characters, words, paragraphs, illustrations, footnotes, etc.

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Typical METS/ALTO XML

digital object for analog print

materials (books,

newspapers, magazines)

METS/ALTO Digital Object

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An example of w

hatALTO

makes possible

The Day book. (Chicago, Ill.), 29 Feb. 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-02-29/ed-1/seq-26/>

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ALTO is a product of the METAe project, a collaboration of 14 partners Europe and the USA which began in 2000Content Conversion Specialists (CCS), one of the project partners, administered and maintained the ALTO standard until August 2009In August 2009 administration and maintenance was transferred to the ALTO Editorial Board and the Library of Congress

A Short History of ALTO XML

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Board was created in August 2009 at the same time administration and maintenance of ALTO XML was transferred to the Library of CongressMembers are from libraries and industry in Europe, North America, and Singapore

An Even Shorter History of the ALTO Editorial Board

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Singapore

Mikkeli

Paris

London

Hamburg

the Hague

Washington DC

Riverside CA

Coronado CA

Board member locations span 16 time zones

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Experience with ALTO implementation or toolsMember of international digital library communitySupport from one’s home institutionAbility and interest in developing and fostering use of ALTOCommitment to a 2 year (renewable) term

ALTO Board Membership Criteria

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Purpose of theALTO Editorial Board

The purpose of the ALTO Editorial Board is to maintain editorial control of ALTO, its XML schema, and official ALTO documentation.

Additionally, the Board promotes the use of the standard and endorses best practices in the use of

ALTO as the practices emerge. The ALTO Editorial Board is representative of important

communities of interest for ALTO.

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Board MeetingsTeleconference

Goal: One per monthPractice: Less than one per month

SchedulingDoodle poll: Too much workThursdays at 2pm UTCDate (which Thursday) for next teleconference is settled during each teleconference

Face-to-face meetings in conjunction with library conferences (WLIC and DLF Forum)

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Board Meetings

Agenda sent to all board members in advance of teleconferenceOne or more board members responsible for each agenda itemMeetings result in action items with one or more members responsible for the action item

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Board MeetingsDraft agenda for September 19, 2013 ALTO meeting.  If you have changes or additions, please email them to everyone as soon as possible.  If you haven't yet adopted a change proposal as its champion, please do so before the meeting.

1. Review action items (see below) [Frederick leads discussion].  2. Review volunteer champions for current change proposals [Frederick leads discussion].3. Discussion of draft design principles for ALTO [Markus leads discussion].4. Discussion of Namespace request from Yursa Ibrahim [Nate leads discussion] 5. Jean-Philippe will demonstrate some of the BnF "hacks" (constraints) on the ALTO schema.  document (2013-06-04 ALTO

Schema Differences BnF-LoC.docx) describing differences between BnF ALTO schema and Library of Congress ALTO schema [Jean-Philippe leads discussion]. 

6. Final discussion of IMPACT proposal to allow shape-element usage (IMPACT-proposal: (1) Allow Shape-element usage) and Nate's draft document (http://altostandard.pbworks.com/w/file/64537934/2013-03-14%20Impact%20proposal%20-%20Allow%20Shape%20discussion.doc) [Proposal champion Nate leads discussion].

7. Discuss IMPACT-proposal: (2) Process Result tracking [Proposal champion Joachim leads discussion].8. Discuss IMPACT-proposal: (3) Logical Labeling Of Structural Elements [Proposal champion Evelien leads discussion]. 

Action items (also see Action items page) [Action 2013-06-13] Everyone to review Markus's draft design principles (ALTO schema design guidelines).[Action 2013-06-13] Joachim will list use cases for the future direction of ALTO: What does ALTO do now and what should it do in future?  Jukka and Evelien will collaborate as they can.[Action 2013-06-13] Jean-Philippe will demonstrate specific examples of the BnF ALTO schema "hacks".[Action 2013-06-04] Review Jean-Philippe's document (2013-06-04 ALTO Schema Differences BnF-LoC.docx).[Action 2013-04-11] Frederick will draft a change proposal for "normalized" coordinates.

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Board Teleconferences

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Board Teleconferences

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Board Teleconferences

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ALTO Design Principles

Perfection (in design) is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take

away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery14

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ALTO Design Principles

Don’t break backward compatibility!

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ALTO Change Proposals

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Graphic from Kaufmann et al. “More than fun and money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing – A Study on Mechanical Turk.”

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Graphic from Kaufmann et al. “More than fun and money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing – A Study on Mechanical Turk.”

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Motivation

AltruismCommunity sharing and improvementRecognitionEgoCreative expression

Wikipedia contributors, "Open-source_movement," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_movement#Motivations_of_Programmers (accessed July 2013).

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The Singapore National Library Board (NLB) uses extensively the ALTO standard for its popular NewspaperSG service. The ALTO editorial board provides me the opportunity to meet and work with members with substantial experience with the ALTO standard and implementations.

Kia Siang Hock, Singapore National Library Board, Singapore

Motivation

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Bibliotheque nationale de France has used ALTO from the very beginning of its digitalization projects, and it now has millions of ALTO pages available for preservation and diffusion purposes. ALTO is a great tool used everyday, everywhere. But ALTO also has a future, and the ALTO board is the right place to build it.

Jean-Philippe Moreux, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris France

Motivation

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The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) began digitizing printed material on a large scale around 2005. Shortly after that ALTO was chosen and is still used as an important part of the format the KB has designed for the now many millions of pages digitized material and growing. In the future we hope that it will also be possible to improve the quality of the digitized collection, for example, the quality of the text. For these reasons the KB as well as I are interested in helping the community to maintain and develop the standard.

Evelien Ket, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, den Haag, the Netherlands

Motivation

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