CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8)

Session

Plenary 1

P1

19 Jun 2013, 13:15

University of Geneva

Conveners

Plenary 1: Technical Session

• Herbert Van de Sompel

Description

Technical Session

Presentation materials

Record

2013-06-19-13h-c-VanDeSompel.mp4

0. Tech Session: How semantic representations can support scholarly communication

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...

1. Tech Session: W3C Open Annotation effort: Status and Use Cases

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...

2. Tech Session: Naming on the Web: What scholars should want, and what they can have

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...