Re: new use case for SPE ontology: PlosOne's Topaz publishing platform

Ivan,
I'll try to work with Topaz team to further understand their requirements
for ontology and semantic representation of publication.
-aj

On 9/4/06, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>
> AJ,
>
> this sounds really good. It would be great if, once they really have it
> rolling, we would have a good description (sort of a 'business case') on
> how and what they use from SW technologies. That would give a kind of
> credibility, so to say, to the whole line of work that other publishers
> (in or outside the HCLS area!) would look at.
>
> Thank you
>
> Ivan
>
> AJ Chen wrote:
> > Exciting update for scientific publishing task: I met with Amit Kapoor
> > who heads the Topaz project under Plos. They are building a new
> > publishing platform for PlosOne, http://www.plosone.org/, a new open
> > access journal from Plos. Amit is interested in using ontology and
> > semantic web technology to add new features to Topaz software, which is
> > also open source.  We discussed the possibility of using SPE ontology
> > and collaboration.  It looks very promising! Topas publishing platform
> > has an architecture that can implement community-supported ontology like
> > SPE for scientific publishing.  I think this is a very concrete use
> > case.  I welcome any suggestion as how to pursue this use case so that
> > we can really develop SPE ontology to something with practical use right
> > away.
> >
> > www.web2express.org/demo/ <http://www.web2express.org/demo/>
> > demonstrates another use case. You may take a look at it if you haven't
> > done so.  I'll appreciate any comment.
> >
> >
> > AJ
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