Conveners
Plenary 1: Technical Session
- Herbert Van de Sompel
Description
Technical Session
Mr
Paul Groth
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
19/06/2013, 13:15
One part of scientific communication is to effectively structure information so that it can be easily consumed. We spend a great deal of effort doing this for humans, however, given the amount of scientific information we are producing we should also spend some effort doing this for machines. In this talk, I review several semantic representations that are making it easier for machines to...
Mr
Robert Sanderson
(LANL)
19/06/2013, 13:50
The Open Annotation Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources - Annotations - using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the...
Mr
Henry Thompson
(U. Edinburgh)
19/06/2013, 14:25
It's alleged that when Zhou Enlai was asked what he thought of the French Revolution he replied: "It's too early to tell". The scholarly community could be forgiven for wishing they could say the same about the Web, but we don't have that luxury. The incentives for moving scholarship, _all_ scholarship, onto the Web are enormous, and the penalties for failing to do so are rapidly...
