Towards A Semantic Web

Description:
This text links broad theoretical and historical understandings of textual practices to contemporary digital media. It bridges the gap between an analysis of the 'Semantic Web' narrowly and technically conceived and wider trends in 'semantic publishing'. The book provides a critical yet balanced view of the promise and potential of the 'Semantic web' and semantic publishing. There is a further discussion that links strategic ideas of 'knowledge management' with the logistics of semantic publishing.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; A history of formal knowledge; The emerging shape of the new media and the social web; Text-made text; 'Upper-level' ontologies; Document formats; Describing objects; Creating an interlanguage of the social web; Paradigms and practices of knowledge management; Towards increasingly connected knowledge.