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Scientific Publishing: Disruption and Semantic Build-Up
Filed under: Diversification, Open Access, Publishing, Semantic Web | Tags: annotation, Clayton Christensen, Collexis, data mining, DeepDyve, disruption, Elsevier, FEBS, Hakia, illumin8, Linked Data, McGraw-Hill, Mendeley, NaCTeM, NetBase, NextBio, NLP, NPG, ontology, PLoS, Project Prospect, RDF, RSC, science, ScienceDirect, scientific journal, scientific publishing, Scopus, Semantic Web, Semantico, Springer, STM, SWAN, taxonomy, Temis, text mining, Thomson, value shift, Wiley, Wolters Kluwer
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A new technology paired with a viable business model will have disruptive impact on incumbent companies in a specific market, if they do not reevaluate and update their business models accordingly. As the Internet matures, Semantic Web technologies enable applications for meaning-based and dynamic filtering and processing of information, which has a disruptive impact on scientific publishing. This article calls for publishers to adopt semantic technologies and emphasises the “need to include a semantic strategy in their business models” (Hawkins 2009). With a focus on journals as the ‘cash cow’ of scientific publishers, it assembles debates about disruption and general tendencies in scientific publishing. An introduction to Semantic Web, Text Mining and Semantic Publishing is given as well as various examples of product developments, company partnerships and acquisitions related to semantic technologies. Finally, different ways of acquiring semantic annotation data and financial aspects of semantic enhancements are discussed.
Read the full article following this link: Scientific Publishing: Disruption and Semantic Build-Up
The article was also published last week in: LOGOS: The Journal of the World Book Community, Volume 20, pp. 184-198 (DOI: 10.1163/095796509X12777334632744).
Following are a few minor errors which couldn’t be incorporated before publication:
1) One reference is missing:
Shotton D., Portwin K., Klyne G., Miles A., 2009b. Adventures in semantic publishing: exemplar semantic enhancement of a research article. PLoS Computational Biology 5: e1000361. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000361.
2) p 187, para 3, reference is wrong:
“Phillips (2009) in The Future of Journal Publishing quotes Brunelle’s (2006)…” should read instead “Phillips (2009) in Business models in journal publishing quotes Brunelle’s (2006)…“.
3) p 191, last-but-one para, three times the same reference is wrong and should read instead:
“NetBase is licensing its technology to drive Elsevier’s illumin8 product, an R&D research support tool sold via a subscription model (Pollock 2008b). The key differentiator of NetBase is that by not relying on taxonomies “it scales across subject areas with no need for investment in domain expertise” (ibid). Pollock (ibid) wonders whether…”
4) p 193, para 3 should read:
“Although there are all sorts of workflow tools benefiting from semantic technologies, the focus in this article will be on tools for acquiring annotation data.“
