Transcript of Linking Primary and Secondary by Microformats
- 1. Linking Primary and Secondary Sources by Microformats Matteo
Romanello, Univ. quot;Ca' Foscariquot; di Venezia 05/22/08 1
- 2. Rationale In the Field of Classics Electronic publications
need to be BOOTSTRAPPED Scholars need (and deserve) more effective
research tools to be provided Switching from content holding to
service providing Will start a virtuous circle Publishers (e.g. of
e-journals) provide more really effective Value Added Services to
scholars Scholars are encouraged to use online publications
Publishers will invest more money on electronic publishing Favors
the Open Access to research findings Value Added Services could
make the OA economically sustainable What services are most
important for philologists and scholars of Classics? Canonical
references are meaningful entry points to information (see
importance of indices locorum within monographs...) A more powerful
linking framework for primary and secondary sources! 2 /14 M.
Romanello, Linking Primary and Secondary Sources by Microformats
Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology
- 3. Linking primary and secondary sources The first attempt...
...an e-scholium on the Web scale Venetus A: Marcianus Graecus Z.
454, 3 /14 M. Romanello, Linking Primary and Secondary Sources by
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Computational and Formal Philology
- 4. Actual Scenarios Google search L'Anne Philologique search 4
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- 5. State of the art: tightly coupled approach REFERENCE LINKING
FEATURE Hard-linking (1 to 1 mapping) Linking system Peculiar to a
given project Language-dependent Closed system Plut. Sol. 19.1 5
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- 6. Proposal: loosely coupled approach Desired linking system:
Semantic Open-ended Language-neutra Layers separation: 1) Metadata
contained in canonical text references 2) Protocols and Programming
Interfaces (API) 3) Services Glue: Client side application
Implementation: Microformats CTS (Canonical Texts Services) URNs 6
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- 7. Microformatted references 1 3 4 Plut. 5 6 Sol. 7 8 19.1 9 10
11 * URNs and implicit information (e.g. Edition statement) are
hidden by using Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) -> separation of
content and presentation 7 /14 M. Romanello, Linking Primary and
Secondary Sources by Microformats Trends in Computational
Philology: Trends in Computational and Formal Philology
- 8. Microformats and CTS URNs MICROFORMATS from Blogs and Web
2.0 Microformats community -> pattern and design principles
Compounds of Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH) tags Aimed at embedding
semantic data in HTML elements Interest on semantic encoding of
citation formats: hBib draft, Microformat for bibliographic
references to modern publications CTS URNs Lie on the FRBR
(Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) model Provide
Uniform resource names (isbn:xxxxxxx) for Canonical Texts
References Unambiguous identifiers for Authors (Homer:
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg001) Works (Iliad: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg001)
Text passages (1.1: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg001.tlg001) Work Exemplars
(Venetus A: 1.1 Holy Cross / Furman Fellows edd.:
urn:cts:greekLit:tlg001.tlg001.greekLit:msA-tei) 8 /14 M.
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Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology
- 9. Microformats suitability Least Power Rule
Forward-compatibility with Resource Description Framework (RDF)
through GRDDL technology Rapid and Wide success/adoption (FF3 and
IE8) More HTML-compliant than RDFa and eRDF 9 /14 M. Romanello,
Linking Primary and Secondary Sources by Microformats Trends in
Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and Formal
Philology
- 10. CTS Protocol: building a distributed library 10 /14 M.
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Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology
- 11. CTS Protocol: building a distributed library 11 /14 M.
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Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology
- 12. Microformat for Canonical Text References in action 12 /14
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Formal Philology
- 13. Microformat for Canonical Text References in action 13 /14
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Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology
- 14. What's Next? E-scholium Semantic parser for canonical texts
references: from raw text extracts a microformatted reference
Primary Secondary Figure out new services to be Source Sources
built upon CTS URNs and Microformats... CTS harvester Aggregator of
relevant information from the whole Web Allows one to browse
different exemplars of a works (available Secondary Sources through
CTS) and at the same time displays related information
(bibliographic records relevant to the reading context) 14 /14 M.
Romanello, Linking Primary and Secondary Sources by Microformats
Trends in Computational Philology: Trends in Computational and
Formal Philology