RE: [metadata] Who will consume our metadata?

Book discovery is the first and great use of metadata. ONIX for Books is completely appropriate for that and as publishers we contribute to make it more better with our EDItEUR membership.

But this level doesn't belong here to the Open Web Platform.
What belongs to the OWP, is the question of readers consuming content with semantics. And here is the first problem when we have to use a dumb language as HTML5. We have to help HTML5 speak to bring our ebooks intelligence and our readers knowledge.
Because ebooks are not only novels but all sorts of structured content from dictionaries to cooking books, from tabletop books to travel guides. And in that perspective, we are just at dawn from what will be consuming content in the future, even from the titles we today distribute mainly on paper.

Luc

De : Cramer, Dave [mailto:Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com]
Envoyé : mardi 4 février 2014 16:29
À : public-digipub-ig@w3.org
Objet : [metadata] Who will consume our metadata?

For metadata to accomplish something, it needs to be both created and consumed. For us book publishers, ONIX is a good example of a very successful metadata standard. The people who make books create ONIX records that describe the books. We then send these records to the retailers, who use this information to populate their web pages. Consumers then read about the books, and (we hope) buy them. BISAC is another similar example-bookstores wanted to know which shelves to put the books on. Publishers, who presumably have read their own books and know what they are about, assigned codes to tell the bookstores what they needed to know.

Who are the consumers of all the other metadata we're talking about? Many of us publishers have already implemented some kinds of semantic data, like putting epub:type="chapter" in our ebook content. But is anyone doing anything with that information? We also want metadata to drive the discovery of our books. How would that work when most of our content is not exposed to the web (due to file formats, DRM, or the need for payment)? Who is listening, besides Google's spiders?

Dave


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