• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.2197-2204
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• 2015

In recent times, the high-tech society has become the most important issue by IT technology and publication network. Today such flows have also been the case in the e-book field. Today's electronic publication is changing day by day. But there are some problems according to the prevalence of e-book. E-book is similar to p-book(paper-book). There is a limit to have perfect feeling of a texture of p-book. In order to purchase an e-book, people use online. People having malicious intent could copy and distribute it illegally. It leads to cyber abuses. This paper aims at the copyright protection of e-book ePub writers. The proposed e-book copyright protection system is designed using e-book production Sigil environment and C program environment. This system uses client-server communication through e-book ePub as authentication information. It discerns whether to permit or not for a client to read the e-book using authentication information. Authentication information includes ID, password, IP address, limited time of authentication information, GUID(Globally Unique Identifier). If authentication information about e-book meets requirements, people can use it. But if not, it blocks people's approach by quitting program.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.361-363
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 온라인 다중 사용자 환경의 eBook 어노테이션 시스템 개발에서 데이터를 의미 기반으로 관리하고, 데이터에 대하여 상호 공통적인 이해를 표현하며, 그리고 데이터에 대한 무결성 검사 등을 지원하기 위해서 eBook 어노테이션 온톨로지를 구축하였다. eBook 어노테이션 테이터에 대한 상호 공통적인 이해의 표현을 위해서 한국 전자책 문서 표준인 EBKS(Electronic Book of Korea Standard)를 기반으로 구축 하였으며 구축된 온톨로지는 Conceptual Graph(CG)를 사용하여 표현하였다. 의미 기반의 처리를 위해서 본 온톨로지에서는 다국어(Multilingua) 관계를 고려하였으며 또한 오노테이션 데이터 생성 시 중요도를 표현하기 위해서 중요성 axiom을 고려했고, $NF^2$(Non-First Normal Form)에 입각하여 온톨로지를 설계함으로서 어노테이션 데이터의 검색에 활용도를 높였다. 제안된 온톨로지는 어노테이션 데이터의 재사용성을 높일 수 있고 의미 정보를 활용함으로써 eLearning, cyberclass과 같은 다중 사용자 환경에서 효과적인 협업을 가능하게 한다. 본 연구에서는 구현한 eBook annotation 시스템은 구축한 온톨로지를 사용함으로써 의미 기반의 데이터 관리가 가능하다. 또한 어노테이션 생성 시 온톨로지 구조를 모르더라도 어노테이션을 생성할 수 있는 인터페이스를 구현하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.287-310
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• 2011

This research surveyed college students in Korea on their satisfaction for e-book services provided by university libraries. Their usage behavior was investigated, and the satisfaction rate for e-book usage and its service quality were analyzed to comprehend the status of e-book usage. The analysis showed that overall satisfaction for e-book service of university libraries was 2.93 on average. Moreover, the more frequently a student used the service, the more satisfied the student was; junior/senior-level and graduate school student groups showed higher satisfaction for e-book service than freshman and sophomore students. The most influential factor for satisfaction based on the e-book service quality was the content of the service, followed by the library support service system. Based on the findings, reinforcement of library public relations and user education, and the maintenance of the variety and up-to-date status of the contents were proposed to stimulate future university library e-book services.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.117-124
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• 2017

To access PDF documents on an electronic book, PDF documents need to be converted into EPUB which is a standard format of the electronic book. When converting a PDF document into EPUB format, we need to convert color representations from CMYK into RGB representation. It is possible to give a visual effect and a user interaction using a video and JavaScript supported by EPUB format. The schemes for converting from PDF to EPUB are studied in this paper. (1) The first study is to carry out not to lose the color conversion effect using an ICC profile. (2) The second one is a layout configuration in the conversion process. (3) The third one is to highlight a specific content such as quiz platform to provide interactive visual effect for electronic book readers. Finally, in this paper we will show the usability of EPUB based eBook converting scheme through user study.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.461-464
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• 2010

디지털 교과서 상용화 시범 사업은 다양한 학습 지원 도구들과 사회 각 분야의 최신정보, 지식DB등을 활용하여 교실에서 참여형 학습을 실행할 수 있는 사업이다. 현재 디지털 교과서는 유통되고 있는 페이지 단위의 e-book형태가 아닌 확장 가능 구조로 개발되어 있어, 기존의 e-book 단말기나 e-book reader 프로그램에 바로 적용할 수 없다. 본 연구는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 디지털 교과서 단말기의 요구 사항과 기존 단말기의 구현기능을 분석하여, 개선된 단말기의 기능과 규격을 제시하고, 이를 활용할 수 있는 교실 교육 환경을 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.235-245
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• 2011

EBooks refer to electronic versions of books which are accessible via internet with forms of digital texts. In recent years, Amazon's Kindle digital eBooks has revealed the possibilities of success of the e-book market, which leads other companies to launch eBook service such as Google's eBook stores and Apple's iPad and eBook service. These reveal that the eBook market is finally showing a substantial amount of growth. Although the issue of technical support of eBook copyright protection emerges from the fast growing eBook marketplace, current technic of commercial DRM for protecting eBook copyright protection still has problems of non-comparability. Therefore, with the current technical status, DRM comparability problems, which have already occurred in music DRM environment, would also happen in eBook environment. This study suggests a standard framework to support eBook DRM comparability. When development of the standard reference software for eBook DRM comparability is completed, the sources will be registered as shareware to be open to public.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.117-125
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose user-centric immersible and interactive electronic book based on the interface of tabletop display. Electronic book is usually used for users that want to read the text book with multimedia contents like video, audio, animation and etc. It is based on tabletop display platform then the conventional input device like keyboard and mouse is not essentially needed. Users can interact with the contents based on the gestures defined for the interface of tabletop display using hand finger touches then it gives superior and effective interface for users to use the electronic book interestingly. This interface supports multiple users then it gives more diverse effects on the conventional electronic contents just made for one user. In this paper our method gives new way for the conventional electronics book and it can define the user-centric gestures and help users to interact with the book easily. We expect our method can be utilized for many edutainment contents.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.249-262
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• 2014

This study investigated differences in children's story comprehension as they related to the types of reading media. The participants comprised 62 four-years-olds from two child-care centers located in a middle-income region of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. In order to control the experience effect, newly developed stories published into two formats of reading media (paperback books and electronic books) were provided to the participants. The results indicated that there were no significant differences in children's story comprehension depending on the types of reading media. Paperback book readers and electronic book readers did not show any significant difference in story comprehension, which consists of recall, recognition and reasoning tasks. As literature pertaining to children's usage of electronic books is limited, the present study offers guidelines for the development of children's reading media and may serve as a useful resource for future studies.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.323-344
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• 2007

The objective of this study is to move the initiative of children's electronic books from portal sites to libraries and to help improving libraries' information services through their systematic study. The present use state of an e-book site for children that is currently serviced by A-academic library was mainly analyzed for the study. The desirable acquisition policies were also suggested for the activation of the juvenile e-book services for libraries.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.83-90
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• 2001

Q+-reader, an E-Book reader system for XML based contents is introduced, The system is developed for the embedded platform, called Q+, which targets for the digital home electronics systems, The system supports XML contents and CSS based styling as described in Open e-book standard. The system renders the e-book contents for users, sc the contents are secured for a proper use. This will found an essential part of business infra for electronic books with copyright protection, The system was developed in Java language to be used in various platform;, and has an open architecture to be reusable for other standards as well.