Literature as a (Web) Service

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Peter Brantley (Digital Library Federation)
Keynote
Location: Broadway North (6th Floor)

The explosion of publications on the web, in combination with increasingly ubiquitous broadband networks, accessible from ever-more mobile computing platforms, leads us to consider how literature might serve as a collection of data to enable new services on the web. Publishing is becoming not merely a producer of short story collections, essays, and treatises, but an entry point into new opportunities for machine-enabled applications. Hypothetical examples discussed include the integration of online book repositories into wikipedia, and enabling the availability of all published non-fiction as a set of queryable-facts in any major world language.

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Peter Brantley

Digital Library Federation

Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. He has served as the Director of Technology at the California Digital Library, New York University, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a private SF firm providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery, and eons ago worked as a systems analyst in the mass-market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum. He was first introduced to computing via the CDC Plato system.

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