Semantic Lenses to Bring Digital and Semantic Publishing Together

Modern scholarly publishers are making steps towards semantic publishing, i.e. the use of Web and Semantic Web technologies to represent formally the meaning of a published document by specifying information about it as metadata and to publish them as Open Linked Data. In this paper we introduced a way to use a particular semantic publishing model, called semantic lenses, to semantically enhance a published journal article. In addition, we present the main features of TAL, a prototypical application that enables the navigation and understanding of a scholarly document through these semantic lenses, and we describe the outcomes of a user testing session that demonstrates the efficacy of TAL when addressing tasks requiring deeper understanding and fact-finding on the content of the document.