Folk culture and digital enriched books : the case study of the digital enriched tool “e-anagnosis”

Abstract

This proposal refers to the dissemination and projection of folk culture through the use of digital books (e-books) and more specifically through enriched and immersive e-books. The enriched e-books are developed in parallel to the e-book such as ePUB, PDF and Mobipocket, the digital or electronic book such as HTML, TXT, RTF, DOC, etc and devices used as e-readers such as the e-book reader, the iPAD and other tablets as well as the PC. The enriched e-book is a digital edition of a book which is digitally enriched with a variety of items such as videos, photos, animations, quizzes, maps and special symbology that leads to hyperlinked locations inside and outside of the book such as Wikipedia, youtube, dictionaries and thesauri as well as other sources. The relation of folk culture with digital reading (e-reading) can be used in education and training initially through the creation of learning assets. These learning assets can then evolve to complex learning resources and be re-used as digital material units aiming at education and training. This paper focuses on the presentation of commercial and public efforts to enrich digital books, such as: a) the platform with the enriched digital schoolbooks by the Ministry of Education in Greece (digital school), and b) the Greek application for digital reading and writing of rich digital books with the title “e- Anagnosis” (Marginalia Composer & Paspartu), which can be used in folk culture with a specific example (case study).