Towards a Semantic Web. Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research

✍ Scribed by Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis and Liam Magee (Auth.)

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 527
• Series: Chandos Internet
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it calls 'semantic publishing'. This takes two forms: a more narrowly and technically defined 'semantic web'; as well as a broader notion of semantic publishing. This book examines the ways in which knowledge is represented in journal articles and books. By contrast, it goes on to explore the potential impacts of semantic publishing on academic research and authorship. It sets this in the context of changing knowledge ecologies: the way research is done; the way knowledge is represented and; the modes of knowledge access used by researchers, students and the general public.

• Provides an introduction to the 'semantic web' and semantic publishing for readers outside the field of computer science
• Discusses the relevance of the 'semantic web' and semantic publishing more broadly, and its application to academic research
• Examines the changing ecologies of knowledge production

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of figures and tables Figures, Pages xi-xiii
Authors, Pages xv-xviii
1 - Changing knowledge systems in the era of the social web, Pages 1-13
2 - Frameworks for knowledge representation, Pages 15-34
3 - The meaning of meaning: alternative disciplinary perspectives, Pages 35-79
4 - What does the digital do to knowledge making?, Pages 81-122
5 - Books and journal articles: the textual practices of academic knowledge, Pages 123-144
6 - Textual representations and knowledge support-systems in research intensive networks, Pages 145-195
7 - An historical introduction to formal knowledge systems, Pages 197-213
8 - Contemporary dilemmas: tables versus webs, Pages 215-234
9 - Upper-level ontologies, Pages 235-287
10 - Describing knowledge domains: a case study of biological ontologies, Pages 289-301
11 - On commensurability, Pages 303-342
12 - A framework for commensurability, Pages 343-370
13 - Creating an interlanguage of the social web, Pages 371-427
14 - Interoperability and the exchange of humanly usable digital content, Pages 429-489
15 - Framing a new agenda for semantic publishing, Pages 491-507
Index, Pages 509-525