Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
in spite of the tone of the article, the only "newish" idea in it is the notion that "books will read each other" and become synergistically interlinked, and that idea is one that is both interesting and perplexing at the same time.
how -- _exactly_ -- is this supposed to happen?
neither links nor tags, in their current form anyway, indicate an association between two external entities.
even the most basic of building blocks in that regard -- a clean "a.p.i." into the cyberlibrary -- is absent...
You're quite right. The article talks of scanning which is the first stage. DP/PG takes it to the next stage by turning scans into electronic texts, but there hasn't been anything that has stepped up to bat to take on the next stage. This is exactly what I've been working on these past few years. We'll be launching the spec (open and free) at the Extreme Markup Language conference in Montreal in August. At the same time we will provide an AJAX Web application, and Emacs based development environment a set of XSLT style sheets for converting into common formats, complete documentation and a set of test data which will provide examples and a data set for developing applications. I am now revising the paper which we will introduce at the conference and will send it out to anyone who is interested for feedback. When it's ready I'll send a blurb to the list with a berief description of the framework and see if anyone is interested in taking a look. b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Banqwao, Thailand