Thanks Ross. Could you add that to the book-formats page?
http://microformats.org/wiki/book-formats Thanks! Tantek On 6/21/06 5:47 PM, "Ross Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There might be something gleaned from TEI: > > http://www.tei-c.org/ > > Maybe not. > > -Ross. > > On 6/21/06, Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 6/21/06 2:33 PM, "Scott Reynen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> microformats-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >> >> > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
