Colleagues/ I Am Greatly Interested In Learning Of Any and All Innovative Publishing / Editing Systems. By Innovative I Mean Editing / Publishing Systems That Add Value To A Publication. Examples Of Added-Value-Added Editing / Publishing Systems Are Features and Functionalities That David Shotton considers 'Semantic Publishing' "In the present context, I define 'semantic publishing'

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As anything that enhances the meaning of a published journal article, facilitates its automated discovery,

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enables its linking to semantically related articles,

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provides access to data within the article in actionable form, or facilitates integration of data between papers.

Among other things, it involves

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enriching the article with appropriate metadata that are amenable to automated processing and analysis,

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allowing enhanced verifiability of published information and

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providing the capacity for automated discovery and summarization.

These semantic enhancements increase the intrinsic value of journal articles, by increasing the ease by which information, understanding and knowledge can be extracted. They also enable the development of secondary services that can integrate information between such enhanced articles, ... . Specific Examples Are Described In His Article On Semantic Publishing That Is Linked From [ http://tinyurl.com/cmr5sl ] BTW: A Notable/Notable Example Is The Royal Chemical Society's Prospect Project OR What I Have Characterized As 'Eclectic' "E Is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E-]Journal." The Serials Librarian 41, no. 3/4 (2002): 293-321. [ http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/SLv41n3-4.pdf ] [Last Article] BTW-2: It' Been Nearly Seven Years Since I Published "Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-Review Systems and Services," Library Hi Tech News 19, no. 7 (August 2002): 31-43. In recent years, a variety of experimental and commercial systems have been developed that facilitate the management and review of scholarly manuscripts for electronic and paper publication. Among the established and recent Web-based systems are: AllenTrack Bench>Press EdiKit(sm) ESPERE Journal Assistant Manuscript Central Rapid Review For each, a brief overview is provided, as is a outline of the features and functionalities of the system/service, contact information, Web site, and vendor. In addition, a listing of select journals that are published using a respective software/system are also listed within each profile. Available At [ http://www.emeraldinsight.com/fm=html/rpsv/cw/mcb/07419058/v19n7/s5002/p 2l ] Open Access [?] If You Are Aware Of Any And/Or All Enhanced Or Eclectic Innovative Editing / Publishing Systems For Monographs As Well As Journals (Or Other Publications), Please Leave As A Comment On This Post That Is Available At [ http://tinyurl.com/dfckj4 ] Happy Friday ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come / Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]