Technology and innovation for smart publishing».

TISP
Technology and Innovation for Smart Publishing
A thematic network
Cristina Mussinelli – AIE – [email protected]
Assises du livre numérique – Paris - 4 November 2013
With the support of
A brief introduction
TISP is a thematic network supported by the European Commission within the
ICT PSP program. It aims at fostering the meeting between publishing
companies and ICT enterprises, in order to stimulate new partnerships and
business models.
The issue
• Fill the gap between publishing and ICT industries, making available expertise
and tools on innovation and technology to publishing industry
Key objectives
• Fostering business innovation in publishing and ICT sector, through sharing
knowledge and analysis of market trends and benchmarking with existing
business cases
• Supporting policy innovation at national and EU level, through provision of
policy recommendations elaborated jointly by the two communities
Duration
• 3 years: January 2013 - December 2015
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The consortium
25 partners coordinated by AIE:
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2 European umbrella organisations
(FEP, DE)
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3 international book fairs (London and
Frankfurt Book Fairs, Children’s Book
Fair)
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4 academic and cultural institutions
(iMinds, JGU-BSM, HKU, FGSR)
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10 publishing industry national
representatives (AIE, MVB, LLA,
FGEE, BUBOK, ABK, CCIS-SPA, PIK,
Boek, PA)
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6 ICT industry national representatives
(ANITEC, IVSZ, MEDRA, APDETIC,
INFOBALT, AMETIC)
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The consortium
12 countries covered
Belgium
Bulgaria
German
Hungary
Italy
Lithuania
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
United Kingdom
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Activities and tools
Relevant
topics
Relevant
topics
Smart
book
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Events
Political
reccomen
dations
Activities and tools
Relevant topics
• user friendly right management
• e-commerce and eBook distribution
• educational publishing
• technological standards and interoperability
• cross-media storytelling in children's publishing
• social reading
• accessibility
• e-skills for publishers
Events
• When: 4 events each year, at least 12 events during the project life span
• Where: in occasion of the most important fairs of both the sectors and during
international conferences
• Type: workshops, seminars, institutional meetings, conference panels
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Activities and tools
Smart book
An informative online resource which will gather materials resulting from the
network activities. It will be an instrument of update for professionals of both the
sectors and a reference about subjects dealing with innovation in European
publishing.
• Materials: articles, reports of the events, market studies and business cases
• Online since March 2014
Political recommendations
resulting from feedbacks of the TISP events, political recommendations elaborated
by the umbrella organizations (FEP and DE) will be addressed to the institutions, at
national and European level.
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Past events and themes
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June 2013, Editech, Milan: “Sailing against the tide. Publishing in disruptive
times”, international conference
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October 2013, Liber, Madrid, presentation of TISP project, round table
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October 2013, Frankfurt Book Fair: “Business models for eBook distribution.
Interoperability and opportunities in the multilingual Europe”, session during
CONTEC conference
Next events and themes
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November 2013, ICT 2013, Vilnius: “ICT innovation empowering the European
publishing sector”, networking session
November 2013, Technology, Education, Culture and Youth, Paris: workshop
organized by DIGITALEUROPE and the Directorate General Education and
Culture of the European Commission
December 2013, iMinds, Brussels: “Interoperability and HTML5 and ePub3
technologies”, seminar
March 2014, CeBIT, Hannover: topic to be defined
March 2014, Bologna Children Book Fair: “Cross-media story telling in children
publishing”, workshop
April 2014, London Book Fair: “E-skills for publishers”, workshop
May 2014, FICOD, Madrid: “New business model, success cases, matching
demand, how to connect ideas with venture capitals”, formula to be decided
May 2014, Sight City, Frankfurt: “Accessibility for visually impaired”, formula to
be decided
The target audience
TISP activities are open to ICT and publishing companies, professionals of both
sectors, policy makers, researchers.
They can contribute
• by attending the events, which occur on the whole European territory
• by participating to the discussion on the dedicated Linkedin group
• by sharing experiences and business cases
Everybody interested in collaboration between publishers and ICT can contribute to
TISP and take advantage from it.
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An open discussion
The discussion goes on in a
dedicated LinkedIn group:
«Technology and innovation for
smart publishing».
It’s open to professionals
interested in digital innovation in
publishing and everybody can
contribute.
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Contacts
[email protected]
With the support of