Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-05-14 Thread John Erickson
One aspect of this thread concerns reasoning on limited-compute (i.e. mobile) platforms. I'd like to point out Pychinko, the Python-based reasoner (c.f. http://bit.ly/bPglu1 ), which was designed to run on mobile platforms such as Nokia phones where Java-based reasoners were considered too compute-

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-29 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ed Summers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: >> Does anyone know of any other attempts to put linked data into >> packages like this? > > While arguably not Linked Data per-se, you might be interested in work > being done on the Ope

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread John Erickson
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > Ideally, I'd like a protocol such as Open URL > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_URL ), linking books on the device up to > the bibliographies of other books that also happen to be on the device. For > low CPU devices the links might

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:36 PM, John Erickson wrote: > Stuart, t's not clear to me what you're trying to accomplish...For > whom are you trying to add value? We are funded to digitise teaching, learning and research materials for our staff and students. Value to anyone else is incidental, but i

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread John Erickson
Stuart, t's not clear to me what you're trying to accomplish...For whom are you trying to add value? Since ePub is XHTML, it makes sense to embed metadata as RDFa. But why? Is the purpose to enhance the reading experience? Or perhaps the local collection management experience? Publishers should b

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > Does anyone know of any other attempts to put linked data into > packages like this? While arguably not Linked Data per-se, you might be interested in work being done on the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) [1], which aims to u

Re: Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread Christoph LANGE
2010-04-27 22:40 "Stuart A. Yeates" : > I'm interested in putting linked data into eBooks published in the > (open standard) ePub format (http://www.openebook.org/ ). The format > is essentially a relocatable zip file of XHTML, associated media files > and a few metadata files. > > ... > > Does a

Linked data in packaged content (ePub)

2010-04-28 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
I'm interested in putting linked data into eBooks published in the (open standard) ePub format (http://www.openebook.org/ ). The format is essentially a relocatable zip file of XHTML, associated media files and a few metadata files. The target platforms of this content impose some restrictions on