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An RDF-Based Platform for E-Book Publishing

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Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation (ICADL 2011)

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E-books have become an important player in the industry. The market is now flooded with e-readers and tablets designed to optimize e-book reading experience. However, the majority of e-books being published today fail to take full advantage of the electronic form and often appear mostly identical to their printed book counterparts. A platform for e-book publishing is proposed to assist authors in creating rich e-books and enhance reading experience. With the underlying data model that makes use of the Resource Description Framework, the platform has been designed to reap the benefits of the large pool of information available on the internet and on the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud whenever possible to give authors and readers access to relevant information resources. The developed platform has been compared with other similar tools and the results showed that it is able to provide useful services while maintaining the basic functions of e-book authoring and reading.

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  1. Computer Science and Information Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

    Kornschnok Dittawit & Vilas Wuwongse

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  1. Kornschnok Dittawit
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  1. Information Science and Technology Building, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China

    Chunxiao Xing

  2. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Fabio Crestani

  3. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems,, Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

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Dittawit, K., Wuwongse, V. (2011). An RDF-Based Platform for E-Book Publishing. In: Xing, C., Crestani, F., Rauber, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: For Cultural Heritage, Knowledge Dissemination, and Future Creation. ICADL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24826-9_33

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24826-9_33

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