Presentation delivered at O'Reilly ToC 2009, New York, February, on creating services that work across books, discussing semantic value and linked data concepts

1. Literature as a (Web) Service Peter Brantley Digital Library Federation 10 Feb 2009

2. DLF is a ... {description} (member ()) (library ())

3. When we think of books … we think of books as objects … (albeit of a special sort)

4. sometimes we even behold them as works of art

5. “ hand°i°craft°Art”, Vali... , Flickr

6. //JOB books are machine things

7. “ M&H Type Arion Press Tour”, inarge , Flickr

8. (sans dynamism, texture) (size shape proportions) 2 ✚ D (very limited conception)

9. the book is a social construction a successful commodity

10. “ a book is a machine to think with.” - I. A. Richards - Principles of Literary Criticism - 1924

11. Nota Bene: books never static. we read books.

12. “ Northfield Carnegie Reading Room”, Olivander , Flickr

13. reading is itself a social product

14. a commodity in concert with language, and a conception of personal space.

15. what the heck?

16. now our analog culture is being

17. uplifted | to | digital

18. “ The Rocket blasts off”, Phil Gyford , Flickr

19. and what is a “ book ” is about to be redefined

20. not just in the context of itself

21. “ This is No Barnes and Nobel: El Ateneo Bookstore”, longhorndave , Flickr

22. new form of commodity

23. a new set of relationships

24. books are now networked commodities

25. “ Network Operations Center at NPR”, Collapse the Light , Flickr

26. “ reading” becomes redefined

27. “ Things to do while traveling by train”, Akbar Simonse, Flickr

28. reading (silently) always before a solitary act

29. 1 person + 1 book

31. reading many things [in the context of others]

32. reading will be increasingly embedded in & produced in highly networked contexts

33. So, what I want to say ...

34. what is published

35. will become less about the books

36. than the people who read them

37. “ reading in the sun”, gnackgnackgnack , Flickr

38. Books to  People

39. extract  what’s important - [inside the books]

40. words, ceoln , Flickr

41. the words that the books contain.

43. digital words can be – described by other words joined across books linked with data

44. “ MMMMathemmmmmatics”, Flickroff, Flickr

45. words that: describe themselves ↓ words that: build new services

46. ah, let me explain that ...

47. “ The P Word”, racineur , Flickr

48. via a torturous analogy ... ... ... Gemeinschaft books  Gesellschaft books

49. future : when we read a book ( networked )

50. we don’t need to stop at the “cover” of the book (read just the words in the book )

51. “ book cover collage”, monkeyc.net , Flickr

52. an environment of participatory engagement

53. environment is emerging across books

54. any book can be a passage into the world of all the thoughts that can be found in the book

55. “ books strung up by their spines, and the words that fell out of them”, glitter feet , Flickr

56. books can now work together

57. words of books can be associated among each other

58. “ now”, quinnnchick , Flickr ( via Shelly Jackson’s The Skin Project )

59. literature can become a (web) service

60. “ Teaching How to Dance”, William Forrester , Flickr

61. Homework Exercise

63. jumble of words ruptured contexts - but - “ knowledge tokens” preserved

64. a highly derivative work indexed and searchable

65. awareness of knowledge becomes accessible to a huge portion of the world

66. “ book”, mybloodyself , Flickr

68. data in wikipedia with data in books linking _ data

70. Linked Data uses words --- to join --- other words

71. “ Xarxa”, Xarxes socials i llengües, Flickr

72. new awareness / new knowledge / machine generated machine enhanced

73. we can do these things : today :

74. (Google does)

75. “ Platinum spiral catalyzing methanol oxidation”, ystenes , Flickr

76. we are thinking of the things you make the words the ideas

77. as a catalyst for new services ( not products)

78. Δ requires changes

79. we have to think of (IP) rights in a new way

80. just as we think of our books in a new way

81. upside for developers of services

82. services generate renewable revenue

83. In ∑ …

84. books are empowered in the digital age

85. by w o r d s

86. And the people who read them.

87. “ At The Bookstore Café”, erix !, Flickr

88. Google figured this out (Google Book Search)

89. When you think of literature as a catalyst

90. as a whole assemblage of thoughts concepts ideas

91. you are limited only by your imagination

92. “ Sweet dreams for Christmas...”, carf , Flickr

93. kthxbai! peter at diglib.org naypinya {twitter, skype, slideshare}