BiB14 - Interlinking Books with the World
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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
On the menu:
Digital books are valuable databases… That are closed.
Once opened…
… they can be (inter)linked.
Once interlinked…
What advantages does a digitized version provide, information-wise?
vs.
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LINKS
SEARCHES
You get the info you want…If you know what to look for.
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/
Digital books asan API to information
API?
Querying!
Lets SPARQL books!
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.
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.
Go from
ToPREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?personWHERE { ?book a schema:book . ?book schema:name “Les Misérables” . ?book schema:actor ?person }
?personJean ValjeanCosette…
Interlink information inside a book…
Where is character Aat time B?
http://neoformix.com/2013/NovelViews.html
http://xkcd.com/657/
… interlink books with each other…
Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris
What books are about Paris?
… interlink books with each other…
Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris
What books are about Paris?
… interlink books with each other…
Paris New YorkMarseilleSan Francisco Paris
What books are about France?
http://www.jinni.com/
… and interlink books with the world!
http://smalldemons.com/
http://www.lookagain.me.uk/draculadissected/
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:
Our project
Our pilot project partners:
The Publisher of the Future