Book management 2013/Benchmark

There are a number of other, similar interfaces used for organizing books on external sites. There are also on-wiki and external resources that may be helpful in other parts of this project.

Book organization

Collection extension's book organization page

Booktype's book organization page

The Booktype software (demo) has a very nice interface for organizing a book.

"New chapter," "new section," and "import chapter" buttons
Chapters and sections (different levels) are visually distinct by color
Chapters or sections can be moved by dragging the rectangles
"Edit" and "view" links from each chapter
Chapters and sections can be empty
Chapter completion status is displayed on the left side ("new," "needs content," "completed," "to be proofed")
Exportable as "book," "ebook" (Kindle, iPad, general), "onscreen PDF," or ODT
In view mode, the table of contents stays in a column on the left side, with the chapter displayed on the right. This is used in lieu of navbars.

Metadata

There are many metadata collection templates and forms that can be used to decide what types of data should be collected:

English Wikisource's Template:Book
English Wikisource's index pages
English Wikidata's books task force properties
schema.org's book schema

Reading interface

Reading interface from Booktype

Navigation bars

List of navigation templates in use on en.wikibooks

Header templates currently being used on the English Wikisource

Header templates currently being used on the Portuguese Wikibooks (Módulo:Nav)

Header template generated by BookManager