The collection of digital information by governments, corporations, and individuals has created tremendous opportunities for knowledgeand information-based decision making. Driven by mutual benefits, or by regulations that require certain data to be published, there is a demand for the exchange and publication of data among various parties. Data in its original form, however, typically contains...

Semantic publishing is the use of Web and Semantic Web technologies to enhance the meaning of a published journal article, to facilitate its automated discovery, to enable its linking to semantically related articles, to provide access to data within the article in actionable form, and to facilitate integration of data between articles. Recently, semantic publishing has opened the possibility o...

The internet causes a continuous emergence of novel forms of scholarly communication and collaboration. Electronic publishing provides a means for representing eventual outcomes of these processes, i.e. all types of content such as papers and advanced forms of media. Electronic journals are often chosen as an adequate publishing format because they simultaneously deliver content in a well-known...

The paper describes the approach, methodology and main software components of an Adaptive Semantic Publishing Platform for digital medias; applied previously to numerous use cases and publishers like the BBC, EuroMoney and Press Association. The semantic publishing relies on the interaction among the common sense model in ontologies, the world knowledge in Linked Open Data (LOD), the named enti...

This article examines the current difficulties faced in penetrating the world of scholarly communication technology. While there have been large strides forward in the disintermediation of digital publishing expertise—most notably by the Public Knowledge Project—a substantial number of barriers remain. This paper examines a case study in terms of scholarly typesetting and the Journal Article Ta...

As XML workflows become more established within the publishing industry, the need has arisen within publishing organisations to develop electronic systems for storing and processing their digital content holdings, so called content management systems (CMSs). Yet though the underlying technologies of XML and other digital file formats are themselves well-established, the selection, installation ...

Since 2001, the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), a division of the University of Michigan University Library, has published a broad range of scholarly literature in electronic and print form, extending the library’s commitment to the distribution of scholarship by experimenting with innovative methods for publishing to serve the needs of scholars, both at the University of Michigan and around...

Using a case study of The Post newspaper in Cameroon, this article examines an alternative model through which a media organization located within the ‘have not’ side of the digital divide is publishing online.A skills inadequacy in the newsroom and a relatively weak telecommunications infrastructure in the country have prompted the newspaper’s online version to not only target a diasporic audi...

Anna Metzner (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers) welcomed chairs, speakers and participants to Academic Publishing in Europe 2013. This being the 8th conference, she highlighted as continuous the open and discursive nature of the proceedings, and as evolving the themes under discussion. The funding of publishing is an especially timely theme as digital business models are being c...