Pulling it all together

The LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse for Publishers is a hosted solution designed specifically to solve the digital dilemma for publishers. To summarize:
- The LDW saves money because it eliminates the need for publishers to create, maintain and regulate their own repository
- The LDW makes it easy to populate websites with content to vend
- The LDW automates the production and delivery of clips or snippets with full controls
- The LDW can support any device type, now and in the future
- The LDW provides massive security and controls that remain always under the control of the publisher
- The LDW handles large-scale digitization projects
- The LDW provides a digital solution for publishers of any size and that handle any media file types

Audio / Video

The Digitization Challenge

As traditional Book Publishers migrating to the Digital Age, publishers almost always approach the digitization challenge with the sheer brute force of a manual operation. Given the incredible volume of content inventory in the frontlist and backlist, any manual process is bound to be messy and costly.

What LibreDigital has done is to fully automate the process of content digitization, from ingest through metadata tagging and QA to publisher’s acceptance. Most importantly, the creation of snippets or clips (bits of content, regardless of format, for previewing) is a derivation of the original file and they do not need to be separately created.

As a storage and retrieval repository, the LDW serves as a “bank vault” for valuable content and the LibreDigital DataPipe™ serves as a security guard - a highly regulated and monitored conduit for a publisher’s distribution partners.

Video Files

At file ingest, the file media type is declared within the LDW. Currently the LDW recognizes these video file types*:
- Quicktime
- RealMedia
- Microsoft Windows AVI
- Adobe Flash
- MPEG-4 encoding
*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

The LDW also recognizes unique video tags such as framerate, trim, segment and trunc. If a publisher wishes to offer a preview video clip, they can do so by invoking the segment parameter and designating the clip by frames, by seconds or by minutes.

Audio Files

At file ingest, the file media type is declared within the LDW. Currently the LDW recognizes these audio file types*:
- MPEG 3 recording (mp3)
- Quicktime
- RealMedia
- Microsoft WAV format (wav)
*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

The LDW also recognizes unique audio tags such as mix, trim, segment and trunc. The LDW allows real-time snippet creation including downsampling, channel mixing, truncation and insertion of silence between clips. If a publisher wishes to offer a preview audio clip, they can do so by invoking the segment parameter and designating the clip by segments, by seconds or by minutes. Additional tags provide complete control of silence insertion before and after audio clips.

eBooks

At file ingest, the file media type is declared within the LDW. Currently the LDW recognizes these eBook file types*:
- Sony BbeB
- Microsoft OEB / Microsoft Reader
- ePub
- Adobe Reader
- Mobipocket
- Palm Reader
- Gemstar
*additional or custom video file types can be accommodated on a customized basis.

Within the LDW eBooks are whole data objects and are tagged with the corresponding ISBN number for vending.