Neurocirugía publishes a printed edition for subscribers, and also an electronic edition which is available online free of charge. The coexistence of these two formats raises some issues regarding their justification and their future evolution, e.g. why does a subscription- based journal offer free online access? Would it be wise to charge for -or somewhat limit- the electronic access to the Jo...

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 enhanc...

Large, data-rich organizations have tremendously large collections of digital objects to be “repurposed,” to respond quickly and economically to publishing,marketing, and information needs. Some management typically assume that a content management system, or some other technique such as OWL and RDF,will automatically address the workflow and technical issues associated with this reuse. Four ca...

We present Zeus, an environment designed to aid in the creation of a repository of digital theses. Zeus is an asynchronous cooperative toolset which allows the revision and annotation of digital theses over the Internet. With Zeus, students working on their theses (and their academic committees) are provided with a highly personalizable environment which simplifies the process of reviewing elec...

Preserving digital information is a necessary commitment to the future. In ARIADNE, a project of the Digital Publishing Group at ICAT, we are developing an integrated information system for news processing and publishing. In this paper, we present our perspectives on various information preservation issues addressed by this research. These include the semantic preservation of information classi...

BACKGROUND The effective management of content is a key challenge in the digital era. The publishing of websites is often a spectacular and expensive " once-off " exercise that delivers an impressive result in the short term, but in the long term represents many challenges for content management and re-use. Currency of website content rapidly becomes an issue. Similarly, many organisations have...