exploring stories through linked books

Ben De Meester

ben.demeester@ugent.be | @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