[Web4lib] The Eclectic Journal is Alive And Well >>Exemplar Semantic Enhancements Of A Research Article

Mon Apr 20 12:05:30 EDT 2009

Colleagues/

David Shotton, Katie Portwin, Graham Klyne, Alistair Miles / Image
Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of
Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom / Have Written About A Most Intriguing
Initiative In The Latest Issue Of _PLoS Computational  Biology_

"Adventures in Semantic Publishing: Exemplar Semantic Enhancements of a
Research Article "

"Scientific innovation depends on finding, integrating, and re-using the
products of previous research. Here we explore how recent developments
in Web technology, particularly those related to the publication of data
and metadata, might assist that process by providing semantic
enhancements to journal articles within the mainstream process of
scholarly journal publishing. 

We exemplify this by describing semantic enhancements we have made to a
recent biomedical research article taken from PLoS Neglected Tropical
Diseases, providing enrichment to its content and increased access to
datasets within it. These semantic enhancements include provision of
live DOIs and hyperlinks; semantic markup of textual terms, with links
to relevant third-party information resources; interactive figures; a
re-orderable reference list; a document summary containing a study
summary, a tag cloud, and a citation analysis; and two novel types of
semantic enrichment: the first, a Supporting Claims Tooltip to permit
"Citations in Context", and the second, Tag Trees that bring together
semantically related terms. 

In addition, we have published downloadable spreadsheets containing data
from within tables and figures, have enriched these with provenance
information, and have demonstrated various types of data fusion
(mashups) with results from other research articles and with Google
Maps. We have also published machine-readable RDF metadata both about
the article and about the references it cites, ... .

We hope the showcase of examples and ideas it contains, described in
this paper, will excite the imaginations of researchers and publishers,
stimulating them to explore the possibilities of semantic publishing for
their own research articles, and thereby break down present barriers to
the discovery and re-use of information within traditional modes of
scholarly communication."

Links To The Exemplar Semantic Enhancements Article And The Semantically
Enhanced Article Are Accessible From 

[ http://tinyurl.com/cyfe4f ]

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BTW: A Decade Ago I Was Quite Obsessed With 'Enhanced' Journals /
Articles Myself

E Is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E-]Journal."

The Serials Librarian 41, no. 3/4 (2002): 293-321.

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SLv41n3-4.pdf ] [Last Article]

"Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals." Multimedia Information and
Technology 25, no. 4 (1999): 338-343. 

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/Embed.pdf ] 

"New Age Navigation: Innovative Information Interfaces for Electronic
Journals"

The Serials Librarian 45, no. 2 (2003): 87 - 123

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NewAge.pdf  ]

and associated presentations:

E is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [e-] Journal

[ http://eprints.rclis.org/50/2/Eis4.pdf  ] 

and associated web sites [Suspended]:

EJI(sm): A Registry of Innovative E-Journal Features, Functionalities,
and Content

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/EJI.htm  ]

M-Bed(s): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals

[ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm  ]

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BTW: I Am Once Again Interested In Any /All Examples of
'Enhanced'/'Eclectic' E-Journals And Would Appreciate Learning Of
Any/All Recent (Or Planned) Initiatives / Thanks !

Happy Monday !

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan

Associate Professor

Science and Technology Librarian

Iowa State University Library

Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu    

There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor
Hugo 

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