I think we've got two types of "units" being discussed here. One is the actual sections of the book, as defined by the publisher or organizer: chapters, table of contents, index, bibliography... etc. Those should be the same for every instance of the book. The other is a way to "bookmark" any part of the text in an ad hoc manner. This is NOT universal, and anyone can create a new bookmark to suit their needs.
It might help to explore them separately. kc Quoting Mike McCabe <mcc...@archive.org>: > John - > > We'd love to have something like this! > > For now, the closest thing we have is our BookReader URLs, which easily > allow linking to a specific page. > > What you're describing sounds a lot like the Open Bookmarks project - > > http://www.openbookmarks.org/ > > ... which we're participating in. The goal is to have a way of marking > a spot or range of text in any book (edition or work) - no matter what > the format or vendor. > > The New York times allows building links that include highlighted text; > Open Bookmarks might end up doing something similar. > > http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/emphasis-update-and-source/#h[AltBau,2] > > (this highlights the second sentence in the paragraph beginning > '(A)nchor (l)inks (to)...' and ending '(B)ut (a)s (u)sual...' - thus > 'AltBau') > > Open Bookmarks has an open mailing list - feel free to join! > > Mike > > > On 2/1/11 1:34 PM, John & Diane Sumsion wrote: >> I've wanted to link to pages of books, or at least down to the >> chapter, or subhead. >> >> Take, for example, the following blog post: >> >> http://deliberate-thinking.blogspot.com/2010/04/reality-quotient.html >> >> In that post, I refer to printed, copyrighted content by URL, but with >> lame google books URLs that have nothing to do with the structure of >> the book, and that border on the potentially problematic situation >> traditionally called "deep linking". >> >> Look for the following text in the blog post: >> - text: Demarco's "Total Useful Mental Discriminations (TUMD)" >> and link: >> http://books.google.com/books?id=563gvssRPvkC&lpg=PR1&dq=slack&pg=PA72#v=onepage >> - text: how capable you are >> and link: >> http://books.google.com/books?id=31Qe_e61Y10C&lpg=PP1&ots=bBbef5O2a3&dq=speed%20of%20trust&pg=PA185#v=onepage >> >> Is there any way that I could (for a given Work, or Edition), add a >> list of URLs that are just markers for the sections within a book. >> Not page linking, but sections as defined by the work itself. No >> content extraction except perhaps to put the subhead text in the URL >> itself (either in English, or in the Work/Edition's native language, >> or both). Now there would be a global permalink for a given chunk of >> a work. >> >> The closest think I found was OpenLibrary itself with canonical URLs >> to Works and Editions, so I thought if anyone knew, you all would. >> >> Does anything like that exist? >> >> If not, have you thought about allowing your users to define and >> curate sections for Works/Editions that could be treated as >> permalinks? >> >> John... >> _______________________________________________ >> Ol-discuss mailing list >> Ol-discuss@archive.org >> http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to >> ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
