Re: [foaf-dev] Vocabulary for internal structure of text documents

"K. Faith Lawrence" <[email protected]>
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Heya,

I don't know if it is similar to what you are thinking but we have
been having fun with TEI (and TEI enhanced with RDFa) to generate RDF
triples and, conversely, xpointers to refer back to particular
sections of TEI encoded documents. If you want to describe textual
documents with greater specificity than HTML or LaTeX then TEI is a
standard that is worth investigating.

In our case we are taking TEI marked up plays/scripts, creating RDF
triples describing the events that are occurring within a particular
section of script (a character talking, characters entering or leaving
the stage etc) then linking that description back to the section of
script in question. In this case the vocabulary differentiates between
the areas of text which are the stage directions and speech in
addition to their positioning within the structure of the document.

Yours,

Faith

On 3 October 2010 11:45, Mauro Bieg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of a vocabulary or ontology that describes the internal structure of a text document with headings and subheadings? Basically like HTML or LaTeX but in RDF.
>
> Or do you think RDF isn't suited for that? I think it would be great to have that internal information of articles, books, etc. available as semantic data too, and not only the metadata. You could generate table of contents, reference a paragraph of an article or a figure directly by its URI, etc..
>
> I'd be glad to hear your thoughts because I'm thinking of building such a vocabulary if it doesn't exist already. So why hasn't this been done yet or what are the potential problems?
>
> Thanks,
> Mauro
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