RE: Digital Books, Web Components, Bookmarking and Hyperlinking

Web Applications Working Group,

Greetings.  In the BookmarkML approach, we can add bibliographic metadata, useful for graphical user interface summarizations and visualizations of bookmarks and useful for interoperability with authoring software when quoting, citing and referencing materials.  Digital book reading software can produce bookmarks, including with one or more text or multimedia selections (see also: http://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html, http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-30/, http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-full-text-10/) and authoring software can be interoperable with bookmarks.


<bookmark href="...">
  <!-- bibliographic metadata about the bookmarked book, chapter, section, page, configuration, for example http://bibliontology.com/ -->

  <data path="...xpath1...">
    <param name="x1" value="value_1" />
    <param name="x2" value="value_2" />
    ...
  </data>
  <data path="...xpath2...">
    <param name="x3" value="value_3" />
    <param name="x4" value="value_4" />
    ...
  </data>
  ...
</bookmark>


or


<bookmark>
  <!-- bibliographic metadata about the bookmarked book, chapter, section, page, configuration, for example http://bibliontology.com/ -->

  <resources>
    <url type="application/epub+zip">ftp://...<url>
    <url type="application/epub+zip">http://...<url>
    ...
  </resources>

  <data path="...xpath1...">
    <param name="x1" value="value_1" />
    <param name="x2" value="value_2" />
    ...
  </data>
  <data path="...xpath2...">
    <param name="x3" value="value_3" />
    <param name="x4" value="value_4" />
    ...
  </data>
  ...
</bookmark>




Kind regards,

Adam Sobieski