There’s more details on the Labs blog, but timed with our Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, we’ve opened up RDF metadata for all of our books, and have also brought the open source Bookworm ebook reader into O’Reilly Labs. It’s a great way to read any of our ebooks (more than 400 are now available as ebook bundles from oreilly.com) online and from a mobile phone:
The experimental “O’Reilly Product Metadata Interface” (OPMI) exposes RDF for all of O’Reilly’s titles, organized by ISBN. Here’s a snippet of the RDF metadata for iPhone: The Missing Manual, 2e from the OPMI at http://opmi.labs.oreilly.com/product/9780596521677:
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#ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">creator></span><span style="color: #00ffff"><</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">rightsHolder</span><span style="color: #00ffff">></span>David Pogue<span style="color: #00ffff"></</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">rightsHolder></span><span style="color: #00ffff"><</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">description</span><span style="color: #00ffff">></span>The new iPhone 3G is here, and bestselling author David Pogueis back with a thoroughly updated edition of <span style="color: #00ff00">&</span><span style="color: #ffff00">lt</span><span style="color: #00ff00">;</span>em<span style="color: #00ff00">&</span><span style="color: #ffff00">gt</span><span style="color: 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With its faster downloads, touch-screen iPod, and best-evermobile Web browser, the new affordable iPhone is packed with possibilities.But without an objective guide like this one, you'll never unlock all it cando for you. Each custom designed page helps you accomplish specific tasks foreverything from web browsing, to new apps, to watching videos.<span style="color: #00ffff"></</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">description></span><span style="color: #00ffff"><</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">extent</span><span style="color: #00ffff">></span>376 pages<span style="color: #00ffff"></</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">extent></span><span style="color: #00ffff"><</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">type</span><span style="color: #00ffff"> </span><span style="color: #00ff00">rdf</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ff00">resource</span>=<span style="color: #ff6060">"<a href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/PhysicalObject">http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/PhysicalObject</a>"</span><span style="color: #00ffff">/></span><span style="color: #00ffff"><</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">format</span><span style="color: #00ffff">></span>6 x 9 in<span style="color: #00ffff"></</span><span style="color: #ff40ff">dc</span><span style="color: #8080ff">:</span><span style="color: #00ffff">format></span>...The URLs are structured by ISBN13. Once you have the
ISBN13
for an O’Reilly book, you can get the full metadata via HTTP request to:
1 http://opmi.labs.oreilly.com/product/<em>ISBN13</em>To get you started, here’s direct links to the public RDF for our current top-5 bestsellers:
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