[uf-discuss] Book Contents Format

[Scott Reynen]

On Jun 21, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Alex Ezell wrote:

> That is, this is not to describe something like the Table of Contents,
> but actually structure each chapter or section or what have you. It
> seems that Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders may be
> the leading edge on this front, but I thought that the microformatters
> would be a good place to start as well.
>
> I checked the wiki and the info was sparse, so I thought the mailing
> list readers might have more info tucked away on blogs somewhere.

  I assume you've seen these pages:

http://microformats.org/wiki/book-brainstorming
http://microformats.org/wiki/book-examples
http://microformats.org/wiki/book-formats

I suspect the wiki is sparse because there aren't many real world  
examples from which to draw semantics.  There are two examples on the  
examples page and one points to bibliography markup for a plain-text  
book (as I believe all Project Gutenberg books are).  So that leaves  
us with only one example from which to draw semantics, prompting the  
question: is there really a need for such a microformat?

Peace,
Scott