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Interlinking books with the world Using the Semantic Web to create books as reliable, machine-understandable information service providers Ben De Meester Tom De Nies, Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De Walle University Ghent – iMinds – Multimedia Lab http://booksinbrowsers.org/2014-abstracts/#BenDeMeester Books in Browsers | October 23-24 2014 | San Francisco

description

Using semantic annotations in HTML5 (e.g., RDFa), fine and coarse grained semantic information can be stored inside an EPUB 3 publication. Books can then be published on the web as Linked Data. Every published book can hence become a linked database, and machines can query these books (and reason about their contained knowledge) for the users. This way, books become auto-discoverable and interlinked with the rest of the web. It enables the creation of web services that no longer need to index a book to get information out of it, but can query the Web of books.

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Interlinking books with the world Using the Semantic Web to create books as reliable, machine-understandable information service providers

Ben De MeesterTom De Nies, Wesley De Neve, Erik Mannens, Rik Van De WalleUniversity Ghent – iMinds – Multimedia Lab

http://booksinbrowsers.org/2014-abstracts/#BenDeMeester

Books in Browsers | October 23-24 2014 | San Francisco

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On the menu:

Digital books are valuable databases… That are closed.

Once opened…

… they can be (inter)linked.

Once interlinked…

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What advantages does a digitized version provide, information-wise?

vs.

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LINKS

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SEARCHES

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You get the info you want…If you know what to look for.

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There can be more in a book than what meets the eye…

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From a book with textto a book with information

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informationthat can be interlinked

http://lod-cloud.net/

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Digital books asan API to information

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API?

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Querying!

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Lets SPARQL books!

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Lets SPARQL books!PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?personWHERE { ?book a schema:book . ?book schema:name “Les Misérables” . ?book schema:actor ?person }

Returns all characters of the book Les Misérables.

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Lets SPARQL books!PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?personWHERE { ?book a schema:book . ?book schema:name “Les Misérables” . ?book schema:actor ?person }

Returns all characters of the book Les Misérables.

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Go from

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ToPREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?personWHERE { ?book a schema:book . ?book schema:name “Les Misérables” . ?book schema:actor ?person }

?personJean ValjeanCosette…

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Interlink information inside a book…

Where is character Aat time B?

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http://neoformix.com/2013/NovelViews.html

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http://xkcd.com/657/

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… interlink books with each other…

Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris

What books are about Paris?

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… interlink books with each other…

Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris

What books are about Paris?

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… interlink books with each other…

Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris

What books are about France?

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http://www.jinni.com/

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… and interlink books with the world!

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http://smalldemons.com/

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http://www.lookagain.me.uk/draculadissected/

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To take away

By enabling queries for the Semantic information in-side digital books, we can interlink the information inside books…

And get all this for free:

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Our project

Our pilot project partners:

The Publisher of the Future