- From: Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:49:10 -0500
- To: "Dawson, Laura" <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
- Cc: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Dawson, Laura <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote: > > What I've been looking for is an interface that allows a "web monkey" or > home user to do this…in book files. To mark up ebooks semantically, and have > search engines ingest the files in their indexes, would be a huge leap > forward. It would help search, it would help books, it would help society as > a whole. > If I understand your use case correctly: * extract metadata from eBook file formats [1] like ePub [2] and Mobi [3] * map metadata from existing files to schema.org metadata [4] * include that metadata externally in an HTML page [5] * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPub [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket [4] http://schema.org/Book [5] http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html > > But we are missing three things in that: the Wordpress-y like interface that > would allow this; the ability for an epub or mobi file to handle this markup > without breaking; and the willingness of the book market to experiment. (To > wit: Authors Guild lawsuit against Google Books regarding indexing and > abstracting. Walled garden ebook environments. Etc.) > "Form-based publishing tools" like schema creator and microdata generator provide standalone schema.org markup generating tools. [5][6][7] There are ongoing projects for integrating linked data with widely deployed applications like Drupal [8][9] and WordPress [10] with Schema.org. [6] http://schema-creator.org/ [7] http://www.microdatagenerator.com/ [8] http://www.reddit.com/r/semanticweb/comments/1i622l/drupal_8_now_has_schemaorg_rdf_mappings_but_dont/ [9] https://drupal.org/project/schemaorg [10] http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schemaorg CKAN [11][12][13] is also popular. WorldCat now shares linked data "for its linked dataset of 290+ million bibliographic resources". [14][15] [11] http://ckan.org/open-standards/ [12] http://docs.ckan.org/ [13] https://github.com/okfn/ckan [14] http://www.reddit.com/r/semanticweb/comments/1fm5z3/worldcat_has_now_proper_content_negotiation_for/#cabsejm [15] http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41266045.ttl
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