Integrating Functionality and Appearance with the Electronic Work Logical Structure

• Published in: 2007 Latin American Web Conference (LA-WEB 2007) pp. 84 - 91
• Main Authors: Martinez-Prieto, M.A., de la Fuente, P., Vegas, J., Adiego, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2007
• Subjects: Buildings; Computer displays; Computer networks; Pipelines; Portable computers; Publishing; Software libraries; Web and internet services; XML
• ISBN: 0769530087; 9780769530086
• DOI: 10.1109/LA-Web.2007.8

Considering that the use of e-books has an important impact in educational environments, we work for getting a competitive and reliable entity for publishing classic literature in the Spanish environment by means of a digital library which helps us to distribute, in an organized way, these electronic documents in Internet. Although currently this content is classical literature in different editions, we want to get a flexible entity which allows us to publish other types of texts that can be demanded by future curriculum. Taking into account these requirements, we define, from the e-book features, the concept of electronic work as an entity focused in the logical structure which represents the original structure of the book. This structure plays a main role, because it is used to integrate the functionality and the appearance necessary for interaction services provided by electronic works. These services are built through Aqueducts, a specific processing model driven by XML data.