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Tom MowlamNow and Future of Data Publishing, Oxford, 23 May 2013

Semantic Publishing at UP

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Metajournals as incentives

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A metapaper is semantics…Semantic information currently included:• JATS XML; short structured article

describes: methodology, the data set, reuse potential

• Dublin Core citation information• Time + Space semantics

* Peroni S, Lapeyre DA and Shotton D (2012) From Markup to Linked Data: Mapping NISO JATS v1.0 to RDF using the SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies. Proc. 2012 JATS Conference, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 16-17 October 2012. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100491/

Semantic information ‘coming soon’:• More cross-discipline semantics• Controlled vocabularies• RDF in many ontologies*

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Low barriers are essential• Low, transparent APCs

• Challenge: high quality semantic markup at low cost

• Metapapers £25• Research articles £200

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Links

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Subset of the DataCite metadata schema:

• Identifier• Creator• Title• Publisher• PublicationYear• Subject• ResourceType (controlled list)• Rights• Description

PRIMEPublisher, Repository and Institutional Metadata Exchange

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