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 > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
