Book description
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
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of figures and tables Figures
- Authors
- Chapter 1: Changing knowledge systems in the era of the social web
- Chapter 2: Frameworks for knowledge representation
- Chapter 3: The meaning of meaning: alternative disciplinary perspectives
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Chapter 4: What does the digital do to knowledge making?
- The work of knowledge representation in the age of its digital reproducibility
- The old and the new in the representation of meaning in the era of its digital reproduction
- The hyperbole of the virtual
- The hype in hypertext
- The mechanics of rendering
- A new navigational order
- Multimodality
- The ubiquity of recording and documentation
- A shift in the balance of representational agency
- A new dynamics of difference
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5: Books and journal articles: the textual practices of academic knowledge
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Chapter 6: Textual representations and knowledge support-systems in research intensive networks
- Introduction
- Towards an ontology of knowledge
- The theory of hierarchically complex systems
- Research knowledge and the dynamics of hierarchically complex systems
- Implications for managing research enterprises in a knowledge society
- Public knowledge and the notion of a public knowledge space
- Public knowledge and contextual information management practices
- Public knowledge and the role of knowledge brokering
- Conclusions
- Appendix: a preliminary ontology for research knowledge support;
- Chapter 7: An historical introduction to formal knowledge systems
- Chapter 8: Contemporary dilemmas: tables versus webs
- Chapter 9: Upper-level ontologies
- Chapter 10: Describing knowledge domains: a case study of biological ontologies
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Chapter 11: On commensurability
- A world of ‘material intangibles’: social structures, conceptual schemes and cultural perspectives
- De-structuring critiques: struggling with systems, structures and schemes
- Interlude: constructions of science
- Elastic structures: linking the linguistic, the cognitive and the social
- Towards a framework…
- Chapter 12: A framework for commensurability
- Chapter 13: Creating an interlanguage of the social web
- Chapter 14: Interoperability and the exchange of humanly usable digital content
- Chapter 15: Framing a new agenda for semantic publishing
- Index
Product information
- Title: Towards A Semantic Web
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2011
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780631745
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