Interlinking books with the world: Using the semantic web to create books as reliable, machine-understandable information service providers

Abstract

The advent of EPUB 3 has made e-books a full-fledged portable web format. However, the content inside a digital publication remains separated from the rest of the Web. This means that the information of a digital book is currently closed off from you until after you read it. In this paper, we propose a way to make the content of digital publications machine-readable by connecting its content with the Semantic Web. This enables automatic processing of the content of a publication, which in turn enables a better discoverability and ingestion of the content of digital publications.