From: Bonnie Zavon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:35:32 -0400

Cross‐platform search functionality is now live on SMPTE's new
interactive online library resource

WHITE PLAINS, NY & STANFORD, CA – September 11, 2012 ‐‐ The Society of
Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the worldwide leader
in motion‐imaging standards and education for the communications,
technology, media, and entertainment industries, is proud to announce
the debut of their vibrant new Digital Library on the HighWire Open
Platform. library.smpte.org

"We were looking to increase service to our members and the community
through this new Digital Library," said SMPTE Executive Director,
Barbara Lange. "With our new online presence, we hope also to expand
our visibility to those who don't know us well, as we feel that
HighWire's close connection to the experts at Google Scholar and
widespread use of open linked data will be instrumental in increasing
our audience."

The SMPTE Digital Library features new integrated search
functionality, allowing users to expand their search across the entire
SMPTE Digital Library material. Search results reveal the number of
hits, and the source of the information, whether it comes from the
Society's Journal, Conference Proceedings or the Standards book
content.

"The Society made a great decision to utilize HighWire's
future‐focused Open Platform to build their digital library," said
HighWire's Director of Publisher Relations, Mark Johnson. "Our
platform ensures that SMPTE will enjoy long‐term interoperability as
we focus on our own strict use of standards to enhance cross‐publisher
discoverability, and offer high‐end products such as mobile and
multimedia."

The SMPTE Digital Library provides one‐stop access to SMPTE resources,
informing professionals about the latest technology products and
industry research as they happen. The SMPTE Digital Library ties
together the various elements of the society's products, including the
SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal, from 1916 to the present, the Society's
conference proceedings, and the full suite of SMPTE standards,
recommended practices, and engineering guidelines. SMPTE Motion
Imaging Journal is the Society's key publication providing
peer‐reviewed articles on topics in 3D, imaging processing, display
technologies, audio, compression, digital cinema, and much more.

The use of motion‐imaging technologies continues to move into new
applications in the military, healthcare, security, marketing,
technology, and other industries. The launch of the SMPTE Digital
Library creates a new repository, which will be accessible to SMPTE
members and non‐members – as well as academic and corporate librarians
– around the world.

PDF: http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/SMPTE_DigitalLibrary.pdf

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SMPTE Contact
Aimée Ricca, Product Marketing Manager
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HighWire Contact
Bonnie Zavon, Public Relations
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About the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

The Oscar® and Emmy® Award‐winning Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers (SMPTE), a professional membership association,
is the worldwide leader in motion‐imaging standards and education for
the communications, technology, media, and entertainment industries.
An internationally recognized and accredited organization, it
spearheads multiple activities to advance moving‐imagery education and
engineering across the broadband, broadcast, cinema, and IT
disciplines. Since its founding in 1916, SMPTE has published the SMPTE
Motion Imaging Journal and developed more than 600 standards,
recommended practices, and engineering guidelines.

SMPTE members include motion‐imaging executives, engineers, creative
and technology professionals, researchers, scientists, educators, and
students from around the world. To join the Society, please visit
https://www.smpte.org/join.


About HighWire

At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press
provides the latest in digital content development and hosting
solutions to the scholarly community through its ground‐breaking
HighWire Open Platform. A division of the Stanford University
Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university
presses, and other independent publishers, sharing ideas and
innovations in publishing, and producing definitive online versions of
high‐impact, peer‐reviewed journals, books, reference works, and other
scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995, HighWire has embodied
a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content to the
widest possible audience, facilitating the research communication
process to meet the ever‐changing needs of today's online and mobile
readers.
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