Liquid Books
I happened to co-organise (together with Birgit Pröll and Martin Gaedke) the 1st International Educators’ Day on Web Engineering Curricula (WECU 2010 – see http://wecu.webengineering.org/2010/) in conjunction with ICWE 2010 in Vienna, see http://icwe2010.webengineering.org/.
Ralf Gerstner, from Springer Verlag in Heidelberg, gave an interesting talk about liquid books. The idea, put simply, is that for publishers like Springer, there is “something” in between the traditional, high quality and longer term printed book publishing and the creative-commons, all-free bottom-up way of publishing in a wiki. They refer to it as the “liquid book”.
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See http://liquidpub.org/ for more information. Interestingly, as presented by Gerstner, there are commonalities between traditional software engineering and the way web applications are engineered today (i.e., Web Engineering). |
E.g., for liquid books there are
- low barriers / short time to market.
- agile development
- new credit attribution rules less constraints
- …
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