Semantic Web and Social Web heading towards living documents in the life sciences
Citation: Alexander Garcia-Castro, Alberto Labarga, Leyla Garcia, Olga Giraldo, Cesar Montaña, John A. Bateman (2010) Semantic Web and Social Web heading towards living documents in the life sciences. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.006
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.006
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.006
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Tagged: Computer Science
(RSS) liquid publications (RSS), living documents (RSS), ontologies (RSS), scholarly communication (RSS), scholarly publishing (RSS), Semantic Web (RSS), Social Web (RSS)
Summary
Envisions publications as living documents, which readers annotated using existing ontologies and annotation pipelines. Tags are automatically generated from a particular ontology (such as the Gene Ontology, GO), and can be corrected by readers. The annotator's information is recorded (as a FOAF:Agent), allowing the possibility of trust-based services that accept tags only from people you trust (and thus countering spam and mistakes).
The Paper-Of-A-Paper Ontology uses existing ontologies including MOAT--Meaning of A Tag--and SCOT--the Social Semantic Cloud of Tags.
States the desderata of Web-scale/Web-enabled scientific communication/scholarly publishing:
- "establishing networks of associated concepts across papers" (NACAP)
- ability to linking concepts to external resources (P2ext)
Theoretical and Practical Relevance
Great example of the need for and use of trust on the Semantic Web! Good characterization (NACAP and P2ext) of the problem of enriching social communication.
