ESWC Summer School 2015 Poster

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exploring stories through linked books Ben De Meester [email protected] | @Ben__DM http://users.ugent.be/~bjdmeest/ | +32 9 331 49 59 Digital publications are silos of informa- tion. As long as we cannot interpret this information automatically, the discover- ability of books remains limited. If we can represent these books as linked data, machines can interpret what a book is about! Linked Data is a means of repre- senting knowledge in a machine- interpretable way. Story b link Helps a user find intercon- nected books by connecting the tags. Questions: What kind of tags are important? How to get them automatically? Represents the content of digital books using a linked data end-point in the form of semantic tags. 2 1 Helping people find books by making machines interpret the book’s content

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exploring stories through linked books

Ben De Meester

[email protected] | @Ben__DM

http://users.ugent.be/~bjdmeest/ | +32 9 331 49 59

Digital publications are silos of informa-tion. As long as we cannot interpret this information automatically, the discover-ability of books remains limited.

If we can represent these books as linked data, machines can interpret what a book is about!

Linked Data is a means of repre-senting knowledge in a machine-interpretable way.

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Helps a user find intercon-nected books by connecting the tags.

Questions: • What kind of tags are important? • How to get them automatically?

Represents the content of digital books using a linked data end-point in the form of semantic tags.

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Helping people find books by making machines interpret the book’s content