 All right, hi, welcome everybody to the October Pressbooks product update. I'm Steel Wagstaff, the Pressbooks product manager, and I want to start by showing you some of the things that we've released recently in the last month or two that you may have missed, some new features that might be useful for you. The first thing I want to do is share my screen here and show you a Pressbooks web book. And there's a couple of new features that we've added that help you display typefaces for different types of situations. One of the more common ones that we heard about were people that were working with music projects. And so when you're working with musical notation, there's a bunch of special characters in the Unicode type set that represent musical characters. So here's some examples of musical characters in HTML. They render usually pretty okay in HTML, but in the export formats, you have to have those characters included for the typefaces. So what we did here, if you want to work with musical notation, when you come into appearance and theme options, you see a bunch of different languages and scripts that you can declare support for. And when you declare support for these languages, what it does is it Pressbooks makes sure that you have all of the characters needed for all of your export formats that the typefaces are included in the export. And one of the new things that we've added here is musical notation. So if you were to look previously before I turn this on, and I made it, if I were to make an export of this book, I'll just make a quick PDF export. You'll notice in that chapter, all of those musical characters will just be like question marks the character will be missing. And that's not obviously ideal so post turning this on you'll see that the characters are replaced with values that you expect. So to turn that on for a book that you're working on that uses music, you just come to the language as a script support and add musical notation. Many of you have worked with this for other languages or scripts that you've been working in. We've talked about some of the other ones in the past and musical notation is a new choice. So here's the before kind of, if I were to open a PDF, and we come into my musical notation. These characters are all missing, or not all of them, but some of them are missing. Some of the more common ones will be there, but others will be missing. Now, once I turn musical notation, I say, I want this included for the book. What we do is we add there's a nice open typeface for musical notation called brother a text. And we've just now gone and downloaded the brother a text font files, so that we can include it and package it with all of our exports. So if we redo this export another time, then it will give us the musical notation and include it with the file. A couple other changes that we made are if you're looking at your themes. There's a bunch of different press books themes but when we built Malala, which was a common textbook theme, we added a feature called shape shifter and shape shifter to choose different typeface pairings for your web book, ebook and PDF exports. People liked it in Malala and they wanted it in McLuhan, which is our other kind of main basic theme. And so now if you come into McLuhan, and you look at the web options, you'll see the ability to choose a specific header font and a specific body font for the web book, PDF and ebook all separately. And we've added a couple of new choices by request. So one of them, for example, I'll show you sorts mill Goody is a new header or a new typeface that's available. And the body font we've added new Athena Unicode this one specifically designed for working with Greek and other ancient languages so this I have a book that has an example of some Greek text and so I'm turning these two typefaces on for the web book and I'll show you what that looks like in a moment. So, if I were to load this book now, let me actually show you the new PDF. I'm doing two things at once. So here's the example of the musical notation. Now that I've added the musical notation, all of these characters are to make it a little bit bigger if you want. You'll see that all of the characters here are now the expected characters, and they aren't the question marks anymore. The next thing that we can do here is I've changed the header and typeface choices. So, when I visit this book here, this is using that sorts mill Goody and the body text is using the Greek one. So if I were to go to that chapter earlier, you'll see this is rendering in that new Athena Unicode typeface. I could have this be the same files or different files or different typefaces in the exports. Just as I went to web options and selected them, I could also go to PDF options and choose sorts mill Goody and new Athena Unicode. Or I could have separate typefaces for the web and different ones for the PDF, etc. So that's a feature called shapeshifter and it's now available in the Cluan and we've added a couple of new options. Any questions about how to use shapeshifter or any of the type options there or about musical notation before I move on? Okay, great. The next thing that we did was one thing that we noticed is often when people are filling out their book info, there's a place in the book info that you can enter an ISBN number. This is the international standard book number. And the ISBN is something that you would use for online ebook stores. Like if you wanted to sell your book, it needs to have an ISBN. There's also a print ISBN. So if you're making a print copy of your book, you need to have a separate ISBN. And there's a space to enter a DOI or a digital object identifier. And that's just like a permanent resource identifier that a digital resource can be issued so that you can permanently identify it, even if it's URL changes or something like that. So we've supported the ability to enter this in the book info, but these are actually expected or required to be unique per book. When we were cloning books, we were previously including all of the metadata and the ISBN and DOIs, which would produce problems if you had duplicates. You're not supposed to have a duplicate for these values. So what we've done is we've made a change so that now when you clone a book, we will not include the ISBNs or DOIs when a book is cloned. So we just wanted people to be aware of that. That should make things better for most cases. But if you have already entered the DOI for a book and it made a copy and want the copy to be the official one, you'll need to remove it from the old one and put it in the new one. So just something to be aware of. I can take questions about ISBN and DOI. I also see in the chat, there was a question about font considerations. Jonathan asked, do these font considerations impact fonts in mathematics? Could you say a bit more about what you mean, Jonathan? Well, like, there's often Greek letters in mathematical formula and also Roman Latin letters. Do those fonts change with these? So it depends. It depends on how you've entered the mathematics. So most of the time, people are going to be rendering mathematics in press books using LaTeX or a different form of mathematical notation. In those cases, these font changes will not affect it. LaTeX, if you're using the built in press books math jacks tool, here's where you select your math typefaces. These are the fonts that are available for math jacks and the LaTeX math. If you're using the WP Quick LaTeX plugin, they have a single typeface that's already selected. And anytime it says math expression, it will just use that typeface and that tool to make the image. So whenever you were writing a math expression by just entering the Greek characters, like if you want its, like, delta, degree mark, and you just use the Unicode, then yes, those would be affected by your typeface choice. But most of the time when people are using math, they're using one of these input formats, and then this will be what controls those particular characters, what typefaces used there. Hopefully that answers the question. I can take a follow up if that wasn't very clear. Okay, great. Other questions that people have about either typefaces or ISBN DOI stuff. Terrific. Okay, the next thing I want to show then is what happens with glossary terms. It's a pretty minor change, but when you create a glossary term in press books, you'll notice that in the web book, it receives a dashed underline link. So change the default behavior so that glossary terms are now bolded, just emphasized by default. And the other thing that we've done is we've made it so that glossary terms will be bolded in the export formats as well. So many people wanted to say, well, how do I see that there's a glossary term in my PDF export. Previously there wasn't a visual indicator. In general, they'll be bolded by default. And we've given you a class called dot glossary term glossary dash term, I'll put it in the chat. This is a class that you can target it. If you'd like to change the appearance of the glossary term in your export formats. So what that means is, if I were to produce an export, obviously it wouldn't be a link in my PDF but it would be a bolded term. I wanted it to have some other kind of styling. I could come into my custom styles. And I could say in the PDF glossary term. And then I could write whatever styling like I could say, text decoration underline, if I wanted them all to be underlined. This would then every time a glossary term appeared I would apply this styling for my PDF exports. So that's a new kind of feature we've added where glossary terms will be bolded by default in your exports, and they also have a single class that you can use to target them for whatever additional styling, or even to remove the building if you don't like it. So that's those are some options that people have any questions about glossary terms or what that looks like, I guess I can show you an export, and you can see where I make my export. And you can see here's the glossary term it's now bolded in the export. Another thing that we've changed is we've improved the way that we handle embeds this is a sorry I'm trying to do two things at once. Let me stop for a second and do one thing at once. I'm going to share my screen again. There is a. Okay. You see my screen again. Okay, so there is a streaming video service that many universities use that's called Kaltura. And Kaltura is kind of like a campus branded YouTube or a stream. Kaltura supports a format or a specification called O embed, which lets you just take a URL and the, the publisher will be able to see oh this is an O embed URL and it will automatically replace it with an iframe embed. YouTube already does this Vimeo already does this a lot of the streaming media services. Kaltura supports it and we've added better support for those institutions that we know are using Kaltura. So for example the University of Wisconsin has a Kaltura instance and they want to use own bed. Now on any press books network if I take this own bed link, and I come in and edit my, edit my chapter here. This chapter. And if I want, I can just paste this URL on its own line. Oops. Paste the URL on its own line and my demo didn't work, but generally what should happen is this should be replaced with an embedded video. So something always goes wrong in the live demo and that's when we're on today's live demo. But the idea is that we can support Kaltura own beds. I'm not sure why it didn't work for me right now. Yeah. Yeah. Just wanted to make one clarification here in case there's anyone else in the audience that is new to Kaltura. The O embed link that you've got right there came from media space and media space is an extension of the Kaltura product. Correct, but not everybody's using media space. So, for example, Grand State College uses uses Kaltura but we don't use media space. So, therefore, if I were to gather a link of some kind for my LMS, I hook her by crook and one form another, and pasted it into this environment, it, I don't think it would expand itself out into a full blown player. That's correct. So that's her only supports O embed for their media space product at the present. Kaltura may change that in the future and that would help people like Steve and other users. So I guess this is a small niche of you but if your campus uses Kaltura media space, and you would like to support add support for O embeds. So please let us know, and we can add it to our kind of global allow list and make it so that it's easier for you and other users to embed Kaltura media space videos in your press book network. Thank you for helping clarify that Steve you're exactly right. So we've done it for a few schools and if you're a school that wants that let us know what Amy or I know at premium support, and we'll get that worked out for you. So what we want to let people know is that we've made a bunch of other improvements that aren't really demoable, but we've made a bunch of improvements to our API and how we're communicating metadata in advance of the directory and the book that you're that will about to demo. So our teams been hard at work on a lot of those things. They're a little bit less exciting for regular end users but for the computers that talk to each other they're very helpful. And we've also been working on multilateral SSO so Rama and Lillian know because we've exchanged dozens of emails E campus Ontario is using this. If you are a consortial press book, if you have a press books network that's shared by many schools and a consortia. We have a bet we have better tools and solutions to handle multilateral SSO, which means using your net ID from several different schools to log into the same press books network. So we spent a lot of time refining and improving that as a solution if that's something that you need. You can let us know or let Sarah know sales and we can figure out what you need to get it for you. And we've also been working to improve our LTI 1.3 provider plugin. That's the results for LMS tool. Some of you are piloting this tool. What it allows you to do is launch your press books content in your LMS and exchange great information from H5P interactive content in your chapters. A lot of you have seen it in previous network manager demos and we just been refining and making improvements based on some pilot users that have been enjoying that experience. So that's what we've been up to. Anybody have questions for me about new, new features or things that you thought I was going to mention it didn't. I have to ask steel. You mentioned there's an equation editor in press books. No, that was new to me and I just looked and I can't find it anywhere. So there's, there's not an equation editor what I was, I guess, yeah, so let me clarify. I can show you with a demo of the screen. You're sorry if that is misleading, which screen did I just share is it are you seeing the a press books editor right now. Okay, great. So here, I can create an equation with a couple of different methods. The most common method would be to say, let's use a lot tech shortcode and we'll say, just a simple polynomial for example. Okay, well, I'm good. The other way that you can do this though is you can make an equation by entering special characters. So this is not exactly an equation builder, but many, like, for example with Jonathan was asking about Greek characters. I wanted to use one of these characters in a mathematical sense like Delta. I could have made the equation by just entering the character or if I knew the keyboard command for it. So there's not, there's not an equation builder like you might think of with a dedicated wire. Yeah, I was thinking like the wire is or the where is. That would be cool. Yeah, we don't, we don't have that yet. Like a we risk or like overly, but we're thinking about it. I feel better now. Okay. Any other questions for things that people want to clarity on our clarification on before we get to our real exciting part of the demo. Okay. Now I want to show you what I think you all came for, which is the press books directory. So our press books directory is approaching a first public release. So if you would like to see this and check out some things, you can visit staging that press books directory, and you will see the live version of our beta directory. What we're doing right now is we are pulling in all of the public books from the networks, the press book networks that we host. We would love to include other books from open source networks. We just need to make sure that they're running the latest version of press books so they need to be on press books 5.17.2 or later, because that is the version that includes the most recent API and metadata changes that we need for our Fetcher tool that goes and updates the metadata. So there's a few things that I want to show you here. One is that we want all of you as network managers to be able to review and look at what's being displayed for books on your networks, and have some time to feel like it's the face that you want to prepare to the world. There's two things that we've done recently that I think will be very helpful for you. One is we have set up what we're calling the directory Fetcher. It's a tool that we run and it's a job that goes and looks every hour we look at all of our press books networks and we say has anything been updated. In an update, we will update those changes may or will automatically every hour on the hour, and I will show you will do a kind of proof of concept show you how that works with a live example shortly homing to be my assistant behind the curve. The second thing that we're doing is, and we've also built in the two different ways that you can choose to exclude your book from the directory, even if it's a public book. So I want to show what you can do is I have a book here this is my example webinar book, and you'll notice here, this book is public, and it's on OER dot press books top up. So I'm going to come in here and I'm going to look for what was it called example. Example webinar, and I'll search and. Oh good, there's only one book that has this particular title and I'll see. The book that I just searched for. It's on OER dot press books pub. Here's the name of the press books network. Here's the title of that book and I could link to it and see it in the real world and say oh cool this is a public book I like it. And here's the metadata that's been provided it has an author. It was last updated today. It has a word count has stored size. It has a cover image. It's in English. It has copyrights reserved. It has 63 H5P activities that's a nice thing to know. And this is not a clone book this is an original this was built from without being cloned from another press book. So here's some of the information that's available about this book, but I might say you know what this is a this books of work in progress. I mean it's I want it to be public for now, but I don't want it in the directory. The other information that you have here to opt out of the directory is to come in to your book at the individual book level and click sharing and privacy. In the sharing and privacy settings, you can click press books directory. No, exclude this book from the press books directory. This book will still be available on the open web I haven't made the book private, but I'm telling our fetcher. Hey, take this book out of the directory for now. So I've saved that change. Now when I refresh this page and I'm searching for example webinar. You'll see instantly this book has been removed from the directory. So if you would like to take a book from your network out of the press books book listing. That's the recommended way to do it you can leave the book public and they can just opt out. Very simply by going to sharing and privacy settings at any time they can change that and say yep, I'm ready to go back in the press books directory. And the next time our fetcher runs on the hour, it will be added back in the remove will be instant. And that will come the next time we run our venture and right now we're running it every hour. We may end up running it more frequently but for now for our test network we're just running it every hour. The other thing that you can do is you can say okay so home on behind the scenes. I've just changed this back to yes. Will you run the fetcher and bring that book back into the directory. Okay, while Homan's doing that I'm also going to go into book info and I'm going to say before you remember there wasn't a lot of metadata about this book. Let's look at the read this guide. Here's an example where there's much more useful metadata and I can see I can say you know my book wasn't very descriptive I like to have more descriptive information like an editor a subject to all that kind of stuff. To make sure that's up to date, you can simply come into your book information here so I'm going to add a co author my friend Naomi worked on this with me. So I'm going to add her as an author. I'm also going to add UW Madison was the editor that's not really true but we'll say that the publisher here we'll call it steals awesome press it's one of my favorite presses. And we'll leave this other stuff blank. Let's say the English the language here I'm going to say it's English United States just for demo purposes. I'm going to add a cover. So I've got a little cover image that I prepared earlier. If I can find it. Okay. So this one's kind of fun. It says we're open. I got it from on splash. And then I'm going to give this book a subject so this is going to be history of architecture, sure. And I'm going to change the copyright license Naomi and I agreed that this should be CC by not all rights reserved. And I'll give this book a description. A really great demo book for a live webinar. So I just entered a bunch of new metadata about this book. What we're going to now notice is the next time this fetcher runs we should expect this up this information to be updated. First I'm going to go back and look for the book to see that it was added publicly. So if I search example webinar, so I got to refresh the page. Here's my book it's back in right home and ran the fetcher. I told the book to be public it's here. Now I've entered a bunch of new metadata for the book and save it. Oh man, will you run the fetcher updater again for me and we'll see the difference after I've entered some new information here. You want me to update it now. Please do yes. So what we're going to expect to change would be this author field will have new values will have a bunch of new information here. And we'll also see the cover image and the copyright status will be changed for this book. Give me the go ahead when you're ready for me to refresh it's pretty fast but it's not instant. No. Okay. So I'm going to do a hard refresh and we'll now notice that if I look for example webinar. Now you'll notice all that new metadata that I just entered into the book. It's automatically updated to our director. So you can see here the two authors I entered. Here's the editor the subject the publisher and my description just made it in my cover has been changed. My language has been changed and the copyright license has been changed. Now all of these fields are also values that I can filter and search by over here. So for example, I really like that this book is CCB why so I want to find other CCB why books. I can click this and clear out my search term. And I'm going to see all of the CCB why books on the press book network. And I might say you know I want to sort them by word count. So then I can, oops, I did something wrong. And so here all of the books on this network are now sorted by word count. So here's the biggest book on any of the press books networks. Christie might be able to tell you the story about this one. It's a 970,000 page biology behemoth. Or I could say let's sort by the books that were updated most recently. And you can see the most recently updated book on all the press books networks are this example webinar book that you just saw me edit in live time. This is a book that was just updated recently. Viva just made some changes to this introduction to Wimmer and gender studies book. Or I could say let's just show me the default show it alphabetical order. And you can change the number of results there. So that's a little bit of a tour for how the demo staging directory works. What our plan is is to take a couple of weeks and to give everybody time to look over their book listings, if you'd like to clean them up and update them you can do that before we go live live. We can also realize this will be continually updated in close to real time. So if it's not all done by the time the network goes live it's okay. The point is to just help people discover things and find things better. In my opinion, it's probably better to have an imperfect listing than no listing at all. Just in terms of being generous and having stuff out there. A lot of us realize that OER is scrappy and having something is usually better than nothing. That's Christy saying, Oh, embarrassing. We want to remove this one from the director. So she's probably going to go and hide that book. And now she has the tools to go and do that. The other thing that I will show you and I want to caveat this and say, please only use this as the nuclear option. There is a way for a network manager to globally exclude all books except for those that they have put into their catalog. Obviously, because it really does damage the general findability of the directory but if it is relevant for your situation I'd like to show you how you can do that and what you can do. If you are a network manager, you will see at the network level if you come into your network admin dashboard come to settings and network options. You will now see a book directory setting. This one says exclude non cataloged public books from the press books directory. What that means is if I were to look at my book list. On this particular network I have. And every every press books network, you can have books that are public. And you can have books that are in your catalog, and they don't have to be the same. So for example, in this particular case I have lots of public books. And many of them are in this networks catalog. I'm going to change that and put these, these two books are now in my catalog. So if I were to visit the press books network group page you'd see there's two books in my catalog now. These other seven books are public but I haven't explicitly listed them in my catalog. So I want to say, oh, I only want people to find the books that I myself have added to the catalog. You can do that. But it will remove author agency, which is why we generally don't encourage you to do it. But in some cases that's what you want or you need. So if you know what you're doing and you want to do this. You can exclude non catalog public books from the press books directory and I'll give you an example of what will happen when you do this. I'm going to come down and I'm going to filter my network. I'm going to look at press books. Okay, so right now press books or has five books that are showing up in the directory. Now, after I make this change, it's going to be fewer books because the ones that aren't in the catalog will disappear. So here's what's going to happen. We're going to exclude non public books from the catalog. And after that change, I will expect this Pikeville book and my example book to be the only books left in the directory. So I made that change those settings have saved. Now when I refresh this. We will see oh, Pikeville and example webinar book are the only books left in the directory. Even if that individual author wanted their book to be listed. Tough luck because my network rules are, you can only get in the directory if I put you in the catalog. So that's the other option. I'm going to turn that setting back off because you probably don't want to have that setting on but and when this setting gets turned off. The whole model have to run the sinker again, but the sinker will go find all of the public books, check to see whether they're individually excluded and put them in and put them out depending on that setting. I think I explained that correctly. If you run behind the scenes run that that sinker again and we'll see the number of books go back to five rather than two here. While I'm doing that I have a question from Lillian in the chat. It looks like the book sharing and setting privacy settings it's possible for user to select private and include in the directory. Yes. So, Lillian, the if if a book is set to private, it will not appear in the directory no matter what. So even if they say yes put in directory if the book itself is not public or general privacy status is not public. It won't be included in the directory. If it's public. The default value will be yes I'm in the directory, unless they change it to no exclude from directory. So they only have to worry about the setting if they have a public book that they want to exclude. So that's, we think that it's going to be a smaller percentage of cases but that's going to be the way that they didn't make the change. That's 100%. Yes. Another thing that you'll want to know is we are also right now on the staging directory, we're setting an arbitrary word limit and we're automatically excluding anything under 1500 words. A lot of times you'll make a demo book or a test book or something and it's just got a few chapters in it. We just are we're going to say it doesn't qualify as a book until it hits the 1500 word limit. We pick that arbitrarily we thought it was a good cut off. We can adjust that down or up but right now, any of your public books without 1500 words you could just not worry about them. The other thing we're doing is, if the book title has the word test or demo, we're excluding those but we can change and lighten those rules those are just some, those are some settings that we've set up for our staging network to help us filter out things that users didn't have to manually make those changes. So when you go and look, you'll notice that if you have a book that has test or demo in its title, or has fewer than 1500 words, it will not show up in our directory, no matter what you do. It'll be treated as a private book. Thank you Steve for reporting that right now. The display it's going to be it's it's not translating the HTML characters it's, it's what's it called unencoding them. So ampersands will appear as the HTML escaped character rather than the ampersand. We'd like to fix that and work on that in the future. Thank you for mentioning it. Keep the bugs coming. We're going to try to get some of these squash before public release. All right, hold on. How are we doing on the sinking. Okay. All right. So now you can see we've got five books back again. So that setting worked and it was doing what it was expected to do. I want to pause and say, first of all, thank you, thank you, thank you. Homan has done an incredible amount of work on this. This was not an easy project to build that had a bunch of complicated pieces. It's the API talking to itself. It's the Fetcher. It's got a bunch of updating pieces and Homan's done a lot of great work. Thank you. It wasn't just Homan, but he was the big lead on this. So thank you. I want to stop and say any questions about the directory or about the things that I just showed with metadata and opting out. So what would you suggest. We have one of the colleges in our larger institution that is host as self hosting their own press books instance now. I have not been privy to it I don't know what's behind the curtain, but would you recommend that they contact their press book representative about coming to sort of a handshake that makes this work. Or what would you suggest that a organization do it rolls their own. So we would love this is great so we would love we would love love love to include self hosted press books networks like, for example, BC campus as a big one, they've got a huge library and some great content. The most important thing that we need to do is we need to work with whoever is hosting their network to make sure that they have press books updated to a recent enough version that we can get the metadata that we need because we made some changes to our API so that this would work. As soon as we confirm with the open source network that it's running on a recent enough version of press books. It's very easy for us to add them to our Fetcher list. So we did a proof of concept with several open source networks. Some of them were updated and some of them hadn't been updated in a long time. So if you are aware of an open source network that you'd like to be included please put us in contact with whoever's hosting it or running it. And we'll try to work with them to help it get up to date. Obviously we can't provide 100% assurances that they're running the latest version of press books so we don't host for them. But we are in contact with some of the larger open source users and we're going to let them know that we'd like to include their books and please update to this version. And if you have others in mind please do the same. Well, what did you say about BC campus what's on their horizon because they're a big one. Yeah, I don't the last I heard they were planning to update in October but I, that's right now. So I will check in with them and find out what version they're at. We haven't really pushed and announced this yet because the chains that the last change that we needed for all this to work was just released this week. So you're seeing it like this was the first demo we've ever done because it's just been released. So now we're at a point where we can tell open source users. This is the version you need. It's stable. Please do it. I'm great to see all the excitement and thanks everybody for saying I'm sorry that we didn't leave as much time for the community roundtable as we normally would. I am willing to stay and listen to anything you'd like to share but I recognize your time. And if you need to go, please do, but if you'd like to share anything with the larger larger community you can let me know now. I can put it in our notes and I can share it in our forum later too. I'm going to stop the recording. Thank you for joining us and really appreciate your time and attention.