Posts tagged: linked data

Navigating the Semantic Web for Publishers

Posted on November 15, 2012 by publishingtechnology

Last month Publishing Technology’s CEO George Lossius presented at The Tools of Change Conference in Frankfurt, participating in their discussion on the semantic web and publishing, Metadata Futures. Presenting alongside speakers from Nielsen Books, Bowker and the start-up Small Demons, … Continue reading →

Is Publishing the future of Search?

Posted on September 7, 2012 by publishingtechnology

In the past 12 months something very interesting has happened to web search giant, Google. It has become a publisher. By acquiring first Zagat, which publishes crowdsourced restaurant recommendations, and more recently the venerable US travel guide publisher Frommer’s, Google … Continue reading →

The Digital Gateway to China

Posted on April 20, 2012 by publishingtechnology

On 17th April, our CEO George Lossius announced the launch of the Digital Gateway project at London Book Fair. The project provides Chinese libraries with their most significant digital publishing platform to date. In this article (first published by Bookbrunch … Continue reading →

This Week on the Semantic Web – 30 March 2012

Posted on March 30, 2012 by publishingtechnology

This week on the Semantic Web Barak Obama backs “big data”, Wiki gets wiser and Kevin Lee delves deeper into Google’s semantic transformation. We also report on the launch of the Semantic University which aims to be the most accessible and complete place … Continue reading →

Reinventing the article – making a case for the ‘research object’

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Richard Ridge

Over at Derivadow.com, Tom Scott offers some insights into some of the possible directions for journal sites that he’s considering at Nature. Continue reading →

This Week on the Semantic Web – 03 Feb 2012

Posted on February 3, 2012 by publishingtechnology

This week on the blog, Seth Grimes provides an answer to the age-old question “What does semantic content enrichment mean?” We find out how husband-and-wife team Carl and Sally Greyling plan to ‘reinvent search.’ The BBC shows off its technology … Continue reading →

This Week on the Semantic Web – 27 Jan 2012

Posted on January 27, 2012 by publishingtechnology

We round up the last week of January continuing as we began, with a selection of the finest 2012 countdowns and predictions for the year ahead. This week Dion Hinchcliffe takes a retrospective look at Big Data, Steve Hamby gets sentimental about … Continue reading →

10 recommendations for the future of scholarly publishing

Posted on January 10, 2012 by publishingtechnology

It’s now acknowledged within the publishing industry that Christmas 2011 was the time when digital reading officially went mainstream, with sales of ebooks and ereaders rocketing on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet while the consumer landscape has exhaustively well … Continue reading →

This Week on the Semantic Web – 06 Jan 2012

Posted on January 6, 2012 by publishingtechnology

In the spirit of the New Year, we kick start 2012 with the news of new bonds and investments, sharing and connecting, and with the knowledge that all things digital can have a human touch. As Google acquire an IBM … Continue reading →

This Week on the Semantic Web – 21 Dec 2011

Posted on December 21, 2011 by publishingtechnology

We end 2011 with a thought for the year ahead – innovation and education! The past year has seen us exploring how today’s experiments with the semantic web are move the web into its 3.0 phases. And now that we … Continue reading →