- From: John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:23:55 -0400
- To: public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <syeates@gmail.com> wrote: > Ideally, I'd like a protocol such as Open URL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_URL ), linking books on the device up to the bibliographies of other books that also happen to be on the device. For low CPU devices the links might have to be pre-calculated when connected to a desktop PC. I understand that Open URL can't actually do this because it assumes the web. So the "zeroth" answer is to only provide such behavior under only certain conditions, for example when explicit DOIs for the items in the bibliographic record are provided and the other items on the device have DOIs...this would allow for an easy "registration" when books were put on the device. The browser of course would have to know to intervene, however. To actually do what OpenURL enables --- embed citation data ala COinS <http://ocoins.info/>, use that as the basis for constructing OpenURL references, and resolve those on the device --- would be a stretch on a disconnected device, but not impossible. The citation metadata for each installed ePub would have to be indexed, and then a proxy on the device would have to check this before attempting to resolve off-device. This sort of resolution doesn't require any advanced "reasoning," although it still might be intense. Is this what you were thinking? -- John S. Erickson, Ph.D. http://bitwacker.wordpress.com olyerickson@gmail.com Twitter: @olyerickson
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