Semantic publishing on the Web or semantic web publishing refers to publishing information on the web as documents accompanied by semantic markup. Semantic publication is intended to provide a way for computers to understand the structure and even the meaning of the published information, making information search and data integration more efficient. Although semantic publishing is not specific to the Web, it has been driven by the rising of the semantic web – a web of data.

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  • Semantic publishing on the Web or semantic web publishing refers to publishing information on the web as documents accompanied by semantic markup. Semantic publication is intended to provide a way for computers to understand the structure and even the meaning of the published information, making information search and data integration more efficient. Although semantic publishing is not specific to the Web, it has been driven by the rising of the semantic web – a web of data. In the semantic web, information published on the web is accompanied with metadata describing the published information, thus providing a semantic context. As the semantic web is further developed and adopted, adding semantic markup to published data will become an important part of web publishing. Although semantic publishing has the potential to change the face of web publishing, when this will happen depends on when killer applications will emerge. The current technologies are capable to build web site with all contents in both HTML format and semantic format. Examples are mindswap, UMBC ebiquity, and web2express. org open lab. However, semantic web sites are not common yet. Earlier version of news feed, specifically RSS1.0, is in RDF (a semantic web standard) format, although it has become less popular than RSS2.0 and Atom feed. A new attempt from web2express. org is trying to apply RDF standard more broadly to various data feeds. Anyone can use the new free online service (ufeed) to create and provide RDF data resources and datafeeds for products, news, events, jobs and studies. Semantic publishing also has the potential to revolutionize scientific publishing. Tim Berners-Lee predicted in 2001 that the semantic web “will likely profoundly change the very nature of how scientific knowledge is produced and shared, in ways that we can now barely imagine” [1]. Revisiting the semantic web in 2006, he and his colleagues believed the semantic web “could bring about a revolution in how, for example, scientific content is managed throughout its life cycle” [2]. One simple idea that may radically change scientific communication is for researchers to directly self-publish their experiment data in semantic format on the web. In one scenario, a scientist could design and run an experiment, and share the experiment information with the world in real time by publishing the data as a semantic object on the web. Semantic search engines will make these semantic data available at everyone’s fingertips. W3C interest group in healthcare and life sciences is exploring this idea of self-publishing of experiment now, for which a demo is available.
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  • October 2008
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  • Semantic publishing on the Web or semantic web publishing refers to publishing information on the web as documents accompanied by semantic markup. Semantic publication is intended to provide a way for computers to understand the structure and even the meaning of the published information, making information search and data integration more efficient. Although semantic publishing is not specific to the Web, it has been driven by the rising of the semantic web – a web of data.
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  • Semantic publishing
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