Re: Linked Data Book in Early Access Release

O'Reilly seem to have RDFa for title, author names and homepages, isbn, for
example:
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596516499.do
which gives in Turtle: http://goo.gl/BL2Gz

Steph.


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:57 AM, John Erickson <olyerickson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is the O'Reilly site linked data "saavy?" If so, perhaps that could be
> used as incentive for Manning to do likewise...
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5 December 2012 15:36, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5 December 2012 14:56, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 08:46, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > On 12/5/12 7:55 AM, David Wood wrote:
> >>> >> On Dec 5, 2012, at 06:34, Chris Beer<chris@codex.net.au>  wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>> ><snip>
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>>>> >>>http://www.manning.com/dwood/  itself doesn't seam to have
> any
> >>> >>>>> >>> Linked Data
> >>> >>>>> >>>to consume;)
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >Makes sense to me - if you know enough to look for LD resources at
> >>> >>> > the
> >>> >>> >manning.com/dwood/ URI, you've just self evaluated that you
> probably
> >>> >>> > don't
> >>> >>> >need the book! :P
> >>> >> I agree - and have been speaking with Manning about this.
> >>> >> Unfortunately, I haven't made any progress yet.  I'll keep trying!
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks for the mail.  Perhaps I can use it as proof to Manning that
> >>> >> people do want LD on their site.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Regards,
> >>> >> Dave
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> > Dave,
> >>> >
> >>> > They have to understand that its sorta contradictory if they need to
> be
> >>> > convinced of this matter :-)
> >>>
> >>> Oh, I see your point and have made it myself.  Unfortunately, economics
> >>> seems to be dictating otherwise to them for right or wrong.
> >>>
> >>> The only productive suggestion that has been made to me is to put up a
> >>> parallel site for the book that includes LD.  Michael Hausenblas has
> offered
> >>> the domain linkeddatadeveloper.com, which was his original site for
> the book
> >>> but has fallen into disuse.  Of course, I would need to be willing to
> pay
> >>> for the site and take the time to operate it.
> >>
> >>
> >> How about this?
> >>
> >> http://linked.data.fm/book.html
> >>
> >> It's also LDP compliant ;)
> >
> >
> > BTW you can do quite a lot in design mode :
> > http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand/
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Would the community find that a useful thing to do?  I am willing to go
> >>> to the effort if I receive a good number of positive responses.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
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> Director, Web Science Operations
> Tetherless World Constellation (RPI)
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>
>


-- 
Steph.