Towards A Semantic Web

<p>List of figures and tables Figures</p> <p>Authors</p> <p>Chapter 1: Changing knowledge systems in the era of the social web</p> <p>From print to digital text</p> <p>Distributed knowledge systems: the changing role of the university</p> <p>About this book</p> <p>Chapter 2: Frameworks for knowledge representation</p> <p>Putting things in order</p> <p>Introducing the semantic web</p> <p>Towards a framing of semantics</p> <p>Chapter 3: The meaning of meaning: alternative disciplinary perspectives</p> <p>Linguistic semantics</p> <p>Cognitive semantics</p> <p>Social semantics</p> <p>Computational semantics</p> <p>Chapter 4: What does the digital do to knowledge making?</p> <p>The work of knowledge representation in the age of its digital reproducibility</p> <p>The old and the new in the representation of meaning in the era of its digital reproduction</p> <p>The hyperbole of the virtual</p> <p>The hype in hypertext</p> <p>The mechanics of rendering</p> <p>A new navigational order</p> <p>Multimodality</p> <p>The ubiquity of recording and documentation</p> <p>A shift in the balance of representational agency</p> <p>A new dynamics of difference</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 5: Books and journal articles: the textual practices of academic knowledge</p> <p>The role of knowledge representation in knowledge design</p> <p>The scholarly monograph</p> <p>The academic journal</p> <p>Future knowledge systems</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Chapter 6: Textual representations and knowledge support-systems in research intensive networks</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Towards an ontology of knowledge</p> <p>The theory of hierarchically complex systems</p> <p>Research knowledge and the dynamics of hierarchically complex systems</p> <p>Implications for managing research enterprises in a knowledge society</p> <p>Public knowledge and the notion of a public knowledge space</p> <p>Public knowledge and contextual information management practices</p> <p>Public knowledge and the role of knowledge brokering</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Appendix: a preliminary ontology for research knowledge support;</p> <p>Chapter 7: An historical introduction to formal knowledge systems</p> <p>Pre-modernity: logical lineages</p> <p>Early modernity: the mechanisation of thought</p> <p>Crises in modernity: the order of logic and the chaos of history</p> <p>Chapter 8: Contemporary dilemmas: tables versus webs</p> <p>Ordering the world by relations</p> <p>Early threads of the semantic web</p> <p>Shifting trends or status quo?</p> <p>Systems of knowledge: modern and postmodern</p> <p>Knowledge systems in social context</p> <p>Chapter 9: Upper-level ontologies</p> <p> A survey of upper-level ontologies</p> <p>A dialogical account of ontology engineering</p> <p>Conclusions: assessing commensurability</p> <p>Appendix: upper-level ontologies— supplementary data</p> <p>Chapter 10: Describing knowledge domains: a case study of biological ontologies</p> <p>Biological ontologies</p> <p>Biological cultures, ontological cultures</p> <p>Ontological objects</p> <p>Towards compromise: ontologies in practice</p> <p>Chapter 11: On commensurability</p> <p>A world of ‘material intangibles’: social structures, conceptual schemes and cultural perspectives</p> <p>De-structuring critiques: struggling with systems, structures and schemes</p> <p>Interlude: constructions of science</p> <p>Elastic structures: linking the linguistic, the cognitive and the social</p> <p>Towards a framework…</p> <p>Chapter 12: A framework for commensurability</p> <p>What to measure—describing ‘ontological cultures’</p> <p>Presenting a framework for commensurability</p> <p>Applying the framework</p> <p>Chapter 13: Creating an interlanguage of the social web</p> <p>The discursive practice of markup</p> <p>Structural markup</p> <p>Metamarkup: developing markup frameworks</p> <p>Developing an interlanguage mechanism</p> <p>Schema alignment for semantic publishing: the example of Common Ground Markup Language</p> <p>What tagging schemas do</p> <p>Interlanguage</p> <p>Chapter 14: Interoperability and the exchange of humanly usable digital content</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>The transformation of digital content</p> <p>The XML-based interlanguage approach: two examples</p> <p>The ontology-based interlanguage approach: OntoMerge</p> <p>Evaluating approaches to interoperability</p> <p>Addressing the translation problem: emergent possibilities</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>Chapter 15: Framing a new agenda for semantic publishing</p> <p>The academic language game</p> <p>Disciplinarity, or the reason why strategically unnatural language is sometimes powerfully perceptive</p> <p>Experiential knowledge processes</p> <p>Conceptual knowledge processes</p> <p>Analytical knowledge processes</p> <p>Applied knowledge processes</p> <p>Towards a new agenda for semantic publishing</p> <p>Index</p>