[uf-discuss] Book Contents Format

[Ross Singer]

There might be something gleaned from TEI:

http://www.tei-c.org/

Maybe not.

-Ross.

On 6/21/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 6/21/06 2:33 PM, "Scott Reynen" <scott at randomchaos.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> That's not quite accurate.  You can't dismiss the Project Gutenberg books
> because although they don't use angle brackets, their use of standardized
> whitespace and punctuation to represent various book semantics is a markup
> format of sorts and thus still quite useful from a implied schema research
> perspective.
>
> > prompting the
> > question: is there really a need for such a microformat?
>
> It's an interesting question, especially since a particular proposed book
> microformat (boom!) has been used to actually markup and *publish* a real
> physical book.
>
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
>
> Back when Håkon started working on "boom", I gave him a bit of leeway, for
> various reasons:
>
> <http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-January/0028
> 70.html>
>
> Suffice it to say that much of the microformats principles and process I
> have derived and designed from what I learned from Håkon. His instincts tend
> to be quite good.  That said, I am still asking Håkon to go through the
> process with research of pre-existing formats, and naming of class names to
> reuse and take advantage of existing formats.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
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