Open
Society Publishing Forum
30
October 1997, Issue 9
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OPEN SOCIETY PUBLISHING FORUM
OSI Publishing Center, Budapest, 30 October 1997, Issue 9
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In this issue
-From the editor
-Foundation Publishing:
Frankfurt-Budapest Training for New Publishing Staff Loan Program
Round-Table Discussion in Frankfurt
New Translation Project Competition in Macedonia
Exhibition of the Titles Supported by the Latvian Foundation Staff
Change at the Foundations and at CEU Press
-Foundation Publishing - Forthcoming:
Electronic Publishing Conference in Budapest
-Publishing General
"Digital Object Identifier" Launched at Frankfurt
-Translation Project - Update
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Dear Colleagues,
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the focus of this issue. First you can read
a description of a training for the new publishing staff in the CIS
foundations, then about a round-table discussion on loan schemes, and
finally about the Digital Object Identifier system launched during the
fair. The DOI - the ISBN of electronic publishing - is likely to have
a profound impact on various aspects of EP, especially copyright.
A change is introduced in this issue. From now on we will always try
and inform you about Translation Project competitions in various
countries. Macedonia starts the list.
Please note our new name, which we will begin to use in January - OSI
Center for Publishing Development.
With best wishes,
Jerzy Celichowski
======================================================= Foundation
Publishing
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FRANKFURT-BUDAPEST TRAINING FOR NEW PUBLISHING STAFF
A training for new foundation publishing staff was organized by the
OSI Publishing Center in Frankfurt and Budapest on 14-22 October. The
Frankfurt leg coincided with the Frankfurt Book Fair to give the
participants first-hand exposure to the world book industry. The aim
of the training was to give participants with varied backgrounds a
condensed but wide-ranging introduction to the publishing industry.
The participants visited publishers at the fair and also participated
in presentations on book data services, copyright, marketing,
textbooks, financial management in publishing, electronic publishing,
and the Internet, took part in a round-table discussion on loan
schemes [see below], and visited a bank cooperating with the Hungarian
foundation in the implementation of a loan scheme, and a variety of
bookshops in Budapest.
[based on information from Zsigmond Szabo, Program Assistant at the
OSI Publishing Center, <zsszabo@osi.hu>]
LOAN PROGRAM ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION IN FRANKFURT
An exchange of experiences connected with Soros Foundations' Loan
Programs took place during the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16 October.
Representatives of the Hungarian and Russian foundations, which have
already started a loan scheme (in Russia the program is independent
of the OSI Publishing Center), presented their very different
experiences. Publishing staff of other foundations, especially those
which are now at an advanced level of preparatory stage were also
present.
Gabriella Szilard explained the structure of the Hungarian model and
answered technical questions. She mentioned that starting next year,
her foundation plans to have more than two rounds of competition per
year. Elena Samoilo presented the difficulties that her foundation
experienced in the implementation of a loan program in Russia. The
main problems were connected with the preparatory stage. Enough time
should be left to design the concept of a project and to build up
relationship with a partner bank. The repayment should be done
frequently in small installments. Elena stressed the role of an open
competition and monitoring of loans; she also encouraged caution in
accepting collateral.
The foundations about to launch their programs (Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia,
Georgia) briefed the participants about the stage of preparations.
Kyrgyzstan has already announced the program in September, and the
others are about to do so it in the coming weeks. All the programs
are designed differently, based on the needs of the local book
industries. The foundations plan to pilot the program during the first
year and expand only after that. It was agreed that local partner
banks and experts should be identified before the program is launched.
Financial training, of both publishers and the foundation staff,
should be an essential part of the program.
(Many thanks from the participants to Elena Samoilo for her sharing of
the lessons learned by her foundation)
[based on information from Erzsebet Timar, the Director of the Loan
Program of the OSI Publishing Center <etimar@osi.hu>]
NEW TRANSLATION PROJECT COMPETITION IN MACEDONIA
A new CEU Translation Project competition was held in Macedonia in
October. The publishing board decided to support translation of
following titles:
Into Macedonian
Adorno, Theodor W.: Aesthetische Theorie Howard, Michael: War in
European History Woolf, Virginia: A Room of One's Own Mill, John
Stuart: On Liberty
MacIntyre, Alasdair: After Virtue
Into Albanian
Ostrogorski, Georgije: Geschichte des byzantinischen Staates
[KM]
EXHIBITION OF TITLES SUPPORTED BY THE LATVIAN FOUNDATION
Among the events organized on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of
the Soros Foundation - Latvia was a book and electronic publication
exhibition displayed in the window of the Latvian National Library in
October. The Latvian foundation spent over 2 million dollars on
various publishing projects during the last five years. The 225 titles
exhibited represented the various programs that made their publication
possible. Next to the numerous textbooks and teaching materials were
translations of social sciences and humanities published within the
`Man and Society' series (implemented in part jointly with the OSI
Publishing Center) as well as law titles. Among the exhibits there
were 15 publications in minority languages as Russian, Romany,
Estonian and Ukrainian. Electronic publishing was represented mainly
by various home pages and interactive multimedia teaching materials in
geography, cultural history, etc. [based on information from Ilze
Freiberga of the Soros Foundation - Latvia <ifreib@sfl.lv>]
STAFF CHANGE AT THE FOUNDATIONS
George Genchev, former Publishing Coordinator in Bulgaria has been
appointed the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation -
Sofia. Elene Gabedava of the Open Society Georgia Foundation has been
nominated the Manager of Programs (she will keep working on publishing
programs). Congratulations!
We bid farewell from Marina Ghitoc and Mircea Stefancu of the Soros
Foundation for an Open Society - Romania leaving their foundation
because of restructuring taking place there. Both of them contributed
greatly to the development of publishing programs on both national and
regional levels. Marina piloted the CEU Translation Project in the
region as early as 1995. [JC]
.. AND AT CEU PRESS
Walda Metcalf has resigned from her position as Director of CEU Press,
and is returning to the United States for family reasons. Klara
Takacsy-Nagy, former Editorial Director of Akademia Publishers in
Budapest, has been appointed acting Director of the Press.
The staff of the Press and the OSI Publishing Center would like to
thank Walda foe her dedication and hard work over the past year, and
wish her the best of success in her future endeavours.
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Publishing - Forthcoming
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING CONFERENCE IN BUDAPEST
The Electronic Publishing Development Program of the OSI Publishing
Center will be co-sponsoring an international conference on electronic
publishing "Towards the Information-Rich Society", to be held in
Budapest on 20-22 April 1998.
To ensure significant regional participation the EPDP will be
assisting up to 40 from the region to attend the conference.
The EPDP is particularly interested in presentations from the region
and would appreciate help of the publishing staff of Soros foundations
in targeting specific publishers or projects that would be appropriate
to present papers on technical, human and economic aspects of
electronic publishing at the conference.
Questions should be directed to Viktoria Levai, Coordinator,
Electronic Publishing Development Program of the OSI Publishing Center
(e-mail <vlevai@osi.hu> or telephone 36 1 327 3014 ext 2006).
The deadline for submitting abstracts is 12 noon Monday 17 November.
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Publishing General
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DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER LAUNCHED AT FRANKFURT
The DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for electronic texts on the
Internet was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on 15 October.
The DOI is designed to be an identification system for electronic
publications, in the same way that ISBN is an identification system
for printed books. It can be used for any type of digital data
transmitted over the Internet: text, image, video or audio.
The DOI System was designed by the American Association of Publishers
and others with the purpose of enabling electronic copyright
management systems, linking customers with publishers, and assisting
electronic commerce. Unlike a normal Internet link, the DOI can be
easily updated as the location of the document changes. The DOI system
has two mani parts: an identifier and a directory.
1. The identifier is a special number which contains all the
necessarily information to identify the publisher and also the content
of a particular document. Each document "tagged" in this was contains
a special DOI icon.
2. The DOI directory (located on an Internet server in the US) keeps
track of the location of an item in case it changes its ownership or
is moved. When a user clicks on a DOI icon, a request is sent via the
Internet to the central directory which stores the current location of
the document. This location is sent back to the user's Internet
browser, which will automatically goes to the given address. When the
object is moved from one place to another, the directory is
automatically updated with the object's new location, so it remains
reliable and accurate.
For further details please visit http://ww.doi.org
[based on information from Laszlo Szeibert, Regional Web Publishing
Manager of the OSI Publishing Center <szeibert@osi.hu>]
======================================================= Translation
Project - Update
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New titles published within the project:
ALBANIA
Le Goff, Jacques: La civilisation de l'Occident medieval, grant
$8,325, copyright fee $500, $216/ author's sheet
Dumont, Louis: Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective
anthropologique sur l'ideologie moderne, grant $5,905, copyright fee
$560, $293/author's sheet
BULGARIA
Radcliffe-Brown, A.R.: Structure and Function in Primitive Society,
grant $3,404, copyright fee $375, $290/author's sheet
LATVIA
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophische Untersuchungen, grant $5,555,
$426/author's sheet
ROMANIA
Frisch, Helmut: Theories of Inflation, grant $2,500, copyright fee
$1,500, $320/author's sheet
Nozick, Robert: Anarchy, State and Utopia, grant: $3,670, copyright
fee: $500, $167/author's sheet
UKRAINE
Braudel, Fernand: Civilisation materielle, economie et capitalisme:
15e-18e siecle, Volume 1.
Foucault, Michel: Histoire de la sexualite (vol. 1)
YUGOSLAVIA
Dahl, Robert: Polyarchy, grant: $5,231, $396/author's sheet
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OSI Regional Publishing Center will be changing its name to OSI Center
for Publishing Development, or "OSI Publishing Center" for short. The
change will officially take effect in January 1998; both names can be
used interchangeably until then.
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