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Peter Brantley
Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as the Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.
Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Peter blogs at: Expectation of Fair Pricing, Not Free February 23 2009 At Dear Author, a post stating that not all content should be expected to be free; rather it must be provided, free or not, in a realistic understanding of consumer... read moreNew York Times Settles Linking Suit January 27 2009 In what many of us thought was a slightly bizarre case, the New York Times Co. has settled with GateHouse Media in a suit attempting to cease the automated... read morePalm's webOS Represents Major Shift for Syncing and Data January 12 2009 In an article covering the Palm Pre mobile device, Ars Technica makes a very important point about how devices utilize network connectivity, and what the assumptions are underlying their... read moreNew Tech Mixes Book Experience with Sensors December 16 2008 A new form of hybrid book is coming on the market -- and the inventor consults with Apple. From the Guardian UK: Lyndsay Williams -- who has already developed... read moreHistory Repeating with Book Publishing's Mobile Efforts December 10 2008 A Computerworld blog post from Mike Elgan looks at recent mobile announcements from book publishers. From the perspective of technology, watching book publishers slowly grapple with the tentative migration... read more800 Newspapers Coming to Iliad E-Reader December 06 2008 iRex Technologies scores scores of newspapers for its new iLiad e-reader. From E-Reads: Digitally delivered news is gaining momentum and as we turn the corner to 2009 it's gotten... read moreRandom House Expands Ebook Offerings, Embraces EPUB November 25 2008 Random House is pursing digital with a vengeance, recognizing a growth market. From the Huffington Post: The publisher already has more than 8,000 books in the electronic format and... read moreEFF Attorney: Google Book Search Settlement Weakens Innovation November 20 2008 In an editorial in The Recorder, Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation says Google's settlement with publishers and authors signals an implicit abandonment of Google's legal team... read morePoint-Counterpoint: On Digital Book DRM November 20 2008 In the first part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Peter Brantley outlines reasons why DRM is bad for book publishers. read morePublishers Need to Get In on the Conversation November 19 2008 Kassia Krozser has a Cluetrain-like manifesto for publishers. From Booksquare: It's time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It's a weird thing, and sometimes... read moreEbook to iPod to Hard Copy Purchase November 18 2008 Hugh McGuire is loving Stanza, the free ereader app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. From the Book Over Blog: 40,000 ebook dowloads-a-day. I've got 35 of them sitting on my... read moreAPIs, New "Transactions" and the Google Book Search Registry November 13 2008 At PersonaNonData, Michael Cairns discusses the Google Book Search registry, and muses whether it might support certain types of transactions through an API: How the registry may be formed is... read moreAndroid Barcode App Connects to Google Book Search November 12 2008 Google has released a nifty Android app that permits the scanning of a book's barcode, enabling the linkage with the corresponding work in Google Book Search. From E-Reads: "Google has... read moreElection Interest Signals Print's High-End Future November 10 2008 Following the sell-out of post-election newspapers, Ed Nawotka looks at the collectable future of print. From Beyond Hall 8: One immediate consequence of Obama's victory was the boost in... read moreNovember 09 2008 President-elect Obama has been very vocal about supporting an open government policy, and so far the signs are quite promising. See for example this page linked off Obama's transition website,... read moreVanishing Paper in Higher Education November 03 2008 Christopher Conway has a thoughtful essay at Inside Higher Ed on the seemingly inevitable trend towards digital text consumption: It is becoming increasingly easier to put together affordable 'readers'... read moreEFF's Concerns About the Google Book Search Settlement November 03 2008 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) notes that the Google Book Search settlement accomplishes a degree of access that litigation might have taken years to develop, but it also observes... read moreConnecting the Dots Between Google Book Search and Android October 31 2008 Ed Nawotka of Beyond Hall 8 discusses the possibility that the Google Book Search settlement permits them to envision product delivery through Android-capable devices: Perhaps most important of all... read moreNew York Times Movie Reviews Released as API October 30 2008 The New York Times has released an application programming interface (API) to its movie reviews, which is a rather significant feature. From the Times' Open blog: Finally -- and this... read moreOctober 22 2008 Apple reported stunning results for the last quarter, and it has clearly become a dominant phone company in a very short space of time. John Gruber from Daring Fireball... read moreBBC Shifts Conversation Style: Go Where They're Already Talking October 13 2008 I think this deserves to be pondered. BBC News is moving away from merely hosting comments to inciting discussion in a variety of formats and locations. From Reportr.net: For... read moreDo Publisher Brands Still Have Relevance? October 03 2008 Kate Eltham espies HarperStudio, asking whether they should have a separate Web portal/site, or just operate with a blog. She wonders: can a publisher drive a brand these days?... read more10 Things Ebook Merchants Should Offer September 29 2008 Jane at Dear Author has a wonderful list of 10 things ebook merchants should be providing as a matter of course. Here's just one example, but read the whole... read moreFebruary 24 2008 At Portfolio, Felix Salmon in his Market Movers blog writes in his post Why All Consumer Magazines Should be Free Online on why it is worthwhile for magazines to put their content online for free, and why free doesn’t mean... read moreDigital Reading, Subpoenas, and Privacy November 29 2007 In the c|Net blog, The Iconoclast, Declan McCullagh recounts that Amazon successfully resisted an effort by federal prosecutors in Madison, WI to obtain 24,000 customer records. As c|Net notes, libraries and bookstores have recourse to special protections against the forced... read moreNovember 26 2007 I'm pleased to bring the commentary of a couple of the publishing industry's most experienced and respected voices to conjecture on the economic ramifications of Amazon's Kindle. First, Jason Epstein has kindly agreed to share a back-of-the-envelope analysis of the... read moreNovember 25 2007 Many of the conversations over the release of the Kindle have focused on its features, or perceived lack thereof; there has been some discussion of what reading might become, or how authorship might change. I was impressed with the rather... read moreNovember 19 2007 With the launch of the Kindle, I have little desire here to add to criticisms (e.g., the lack of support for the IDPF's epub standard, or PDF for that matter), or the whims of "service" designers who decided to charge... read moreTake the Money Out to Get It Back In November 18 2007 Last month, I wrote here about the death of the music file sharing system Oink, in a post called "Libraries or Pirate Places", which made note of Jace Clayton's observation that the high quality, finely described and deeply curated collection... read moreNovember 14 2007 CC-0 is a brand new Creative Commons license, whose official launch is expected in December, that signals the absence of any copyright or related rights associated with a work. The creation of CC-0 is heralded by the release into the... read moreNovember 14 2007 With the Amazon Kindle ebook reader announcement increasingly looking like it is imminent, and with a review at Ars Tecnica of the latest generation Sony ebook reader ready to stoke a smoldering fire, it is an interesting time to speculate... read moreNovember 09 2007 At the DLF Fall Forum, we unfortunately missed a presentation from NASA's Daniel Laughlin, who wound up stuck in traffic on I95 for way too many hours (not the worst travel incident of the Forum, but in the top 5).... read moreNovember 08 2007 One of the most engaging sessions at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum meeting in Philadelphia this week was a panel discussing a georeference-supportive project from the City of Philadelphia itself. We were thrilled to have representatives from Philadelphia's Department... read moreNovember 07 2007 At the DLF Fall Forum today in Philadelphia, Mimi Calter [pdf] presented a paper on an examination of the Copyright Registration database, which Carl Malamud and I have been active in "liberating." Stanford has been working on creating a full-text... read moreNovember 06 2007 At the Digital Library Federation's Fall Forum in Philadelphia, NCSU Library's Tito Sierra, Markus Wust, and Emily Lynema presented their "CatalogWS" which is a web service that runs against a derivative of their library catalog, provided by Endeca, to provide... read moreNovember 05 2007 Almost a year ago, Tim O'Reilly wrote, "Search engines should be switchboards, not repositories" in his blog post, "Book Search should work like Web Search." The premise was that search engines should not duplicate the digital book repositories of publishers... read moreNovember 03 2007 Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. I was in the offices of a major... read moreOctober 31 2007 DJ, musician, and cultural critic Jace Clayton recently wrote about the demise of a file and album sharing site called Oink ("Defending the Pig -- Oink croaks"); Interpol came knocking, and Oink is now off air. Oink got into trouble... read moreOctober 24 2007 The New York Times today had a story on the pressures on the German book market created by the ... wait for it ... Swiss. In "German Border Threat: Cheap Books," Michael Kimmelman discusses the challenge to an old German... read moreDigital ILL and the Open Library October 22 2007 Today the New York Times has a story ("Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web") reviewing the various positions that libraries hold on the digitization of their collections. The story, in part, was occasioned by a recent convening of... read moreOctober 22 2007 Via Greg Smith at serial consign, an interview with the Arnheim [N.B.: corrected from errant Amsterdam] graphic information design firm catalogtree. Catalogtree creates compelling graphics and navigations through complex data spaces. In some ways, it made me think of a... read moreOctober 21 2007 Via our friends at if:book, notice that the first machinima contest in Europe just took place at De Montfort University in Leicester 12-14 October 2007. If:book highlights the winning video in the Experimental category, Cirque du Machinima: Cuckoo Clock, by... read moreOctober 19 2007 Worthwhile speculations sometimes arise with an element of serendipity. For example, on a mailing list that I am on, there was a thread on how to describe complex content packages to facilitate interlinking. John Mark Ockerbloom of the University of... read moreOctober 19 2007 About a month ago, Carl Malamud and I worked together to obtain the Copyright Office's database of registrations and make it available for public download and updating. The Copyright Office (CO) data have been distributed in bulk through the Library... read moreOctober 18 2007 As the Director of the Digital Library Federation, I worry a lot about the future of university research libraries (notably distinct from public libraries, or even small college libraries -- they might as well be considered different markets). University libraries... read moreOctober 16 2007 Wireless Watch from Japan, Inc. has a story, "The Navigation Bubble," about the mobile maps market in Japan. Not surprisingly, given the difficulty of specifying Tokyo addresses (which are usually not numbered linearly with the flow of the street, may... read moreOctober 14 2007 In ODF enters the Semantic Web, Rob Weir writes in his blog, An Antic Disposition, of the challenges of encoding the wide range of possible metadata describing a document in a semantically meaningful fashion within the constraints of a schema.... read moreOctober 14 2007 Poynter notes that Monday October 15 is the deadline for two notable grant series: the Knight News Challenge grants and the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning competition. (Yea, sorry, I know this is kinda late notice for those who... read moreOctober 08 2007 Found via GalleyCat, Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow: iPhone Kills Newsprint? Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, speculates in his blog (complete with drawings), about the longevity, or lack thereof, of newspapers. Quoting GalleyCat: "I predict that the end of... read moreOctober 08 2007 There has been rampant speculation about the motivations and trajectory of events surrounding a recent and very mysterious Israeli air attack on Syria. AviationWeek is now reporting the intriguing use of highly advanced foreign sensing appropriations that subvert the actual... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts |
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