Re: Musings on PWP Offline/Online Modes

Tzviya,

In my theoritical model, I was assuming something like this:

When the offline mode is generated, if the Mona Lisa picture is considered
an "essential" for offline, it would be downloaded and have a home within
the root of the PWP that is:

/www.louvre.org/monalist/img.png

and it's internal reference would point to that.  The image would also be
included in the package.

-Nick

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <
tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> The paragraph that Charles highlighted is exactly the point that we spent
> so much time discussing today.
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> Let’s say that the Louvre’s digital rendition of the Mona Lisa is the one
> that is used in all books. When I include the Mona Lisa in my PWP, be it An
> Introduction of Renaissance Art,  Doctoral Thesis on Leonardo’s expression
> of Smiles in Oils, or the Da Vinci Code, what is the locator in <img
> src=””>?
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> Should it be www.louvre.org/monalisa (the original locator for Mona Lisa)
> or should it be https://pwp.server.com/publication1/f01 (or whatever pwp
> locators looks like) (the local locator for Mona Lisa in this publication)?
> If It is the latter, and we are talking not just about images (which have a
> defined mechanism for locators on the web), how do we define this thing
> we’ve been calling a package?
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> This is really just a manifest – a list of locators. Online, that is a
> method of organizing websites, not too different from what we see on the
> web today, just a little more structured. To get to the offline state,
> something has to happen to put all the things at the other end of the URLs
> in a package. So, we arrive again at the importance of the manifest.
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> (Maybe this is what all those people who were talking about books as APIs
> should have meant 3 years ago when I was rolling my eyes because I was
> tired of the term.)
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>
> *Tzviya Siegman*
>
> Digital Book Standards & Capabilities Lead
>
> Wiley
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> 201-748-6884
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> tsiegman@wiley.com
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> *From:* Charles LaPierre [mailto:charlesl@benetech.org]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 04, 2016 3:45 PM
> *To:* Nick Ruffilo
> *Cc:* DPUB mailing list (public-digipub-ig@w3.org)
> *Subject:* Re: Musings on PWP Offline/Online Modes
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> I like this idea Nick, especially the part about
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> This could have many benefits.  Imagine that there are a bunch of
> scholarly publications that all reference a single image/diagram.  The
> web-based PWP version can reference a single online canonical URL, whereas
> the offline PWP can have it's own local instance (meaning less duplication,
> and the ability to update all the online PWPs at once if there is an update
> to that image.  This is OPTIONAL, so if someone wanted to do a snapshot,
> they just reference a local image.
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> Now lets say there is are extended descriptions for this image, a 3D model
> of this image, and/or a Tactile representation of this image with a Tour
> description explaining what the tactile image is.  Now this is done only
> once and all PWP’s would point to this image with its attached extended
> descriptions.  The packager which would create the offline version could
> also grab these extended descriptions as well.  Custom Elements could be
> used here to interact with these alternative representations of the image.
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> Thanks.
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>
>
> Charles LaPierre
> Sr. Software Engineer
> charlesl@benetech.org
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> On Jan 4, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Nick Ruffilo <nickruffilo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The conversation today got me thinking - and maybe it's the new year
> crazies, but I got to thinking of the true value of having something of a
> PWP "engine" that would provide unique value.  Below are some use cases and
> what I feel is an interesting way to handle those cases:
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> *The "vanilla" fully-offline package*
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> This is probably closest to what epub is today.  All the files for the PWP
> are located in the same base, and besides the occasional <a href=""> link
> that points to an external resource, all items are contained within a
> package.  With little effort, the package can exist on a server and as long
> as there is a reading system that can handle the manifest, the content can
> be read in a linear or whatever method we end up with.
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> I think we're all in agreement here - ignoring word choice like manifest,
> etc.
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> *The web-page-in-a-box*
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> Fonts live on other servers, images live on other servers, CSS Frameworks
> live on a CDN, It's a beautiful (messy) web.  How does this become
> offline?  This would require heavy lifting on the part of the browser or
> the server (whatever generates the document) but imagine if the packager
> could take these resources offline.
>
>
>
> *Example*: I'm reading a wikipedia article, and I want to download it as
> a PWP.  Wikipedia could specify a list of resources (heck, even a
> hyper-minified version of their CSS) as well as all the images related to
> that Wikipedia article.  All of those get packaged into a PWP that I can
> download and read whenever.  YES IT WILL BE A SNAPSHOT of the page at that
> time, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing...  It could even have update
> instructions (or an update URL).
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>
>
> External resources get added to the root path in some way like:
> /http/somedomaincom/path/to/external/file.css
>
>
>
> This could have many benefits.  Imagine that there are a bunch of
> scholarly publications that all reference a single image/diagram.  The
> web-based PWP version can reference a single online canonical URL, whereas
> the offline PWP can have it's own local instance (meaning less duplication,
> and the ability to update all the online PWPs at once if there is an update
> to that image.  This is OPTIONAL, so if someone wanted to do a snapshot,
> they just reference a local image.
>
>
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> For publishers - they could have a common CSS framework that they could
> keep up-to-date, so that if they found a bug, or decided that they wanted
> body color to be bright orange, they could update it once, and all new
> offline PWPs that are generated get that.
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> Since this is 100% optional, those who wanted full control can simply opt
> to create their content fully within a single root.  The ability to be able
> to specify certain online resources to be "critical" to an offline package
> could create production benefits (and yes, I realize it could also create
> some headaches).
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> --
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> - Nick Ruffilo
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> @NickRuffilo
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