Bluestream XML CMS

The Xdocs DITA enabled XML CMS is a single sourcing solution for companies that are looking to automate creation, delivery and reuse of their documentation content.

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Neat Tool for Clipping Content to Blog

I ran across this tool and thought that I would share it. I'm posting this entry in my blog using the tool so if it posts we will know that it works. Only click on the "Get Started" if you want to install the tool otherwise I suggest that you visit their site as listed (http://www.clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog).

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Publishing on the Semantic Web

There is an interesting article that was just posted by James Hendler on the recent 2007 Science FOO Camp held at the Googleplex in Mountain View California. Hendler led a session on August 4th regarding the future of academic publishing and out of that session came 12 topical areas including (paraphrased, reordered and augmented):

• ID, logging, review status tag, trust mechanisms

• Data processing and workflow reuse; digital object provenance

• Review as a service that can be applied to an object

• Downstream Tracking / History (Cross Article or Domain Correlation)

• Community Enhanced (Social Networking)

• Citation Labeling (Citation Ontology)

• Annotation/metadata for non-text scientific objects

• Extensible geo-tagging / GIS / Unique Ids for any domain

• Semantic Authoring Aids

• Authoring Tools that add value for metadata

• Unique ID for people (w/o necessarily revealing identity) - persistent ID

• Fantasy Genetics - prediction market for science

When a document is place in a workflow, information obtained from each lifecycle state is very valuable yielding product quality control information regarding the personnel who have edited, review, or collaborated on the documents content. Information that is a little more difficult to track but is included in the list is the post release information (basically who touches the information after it is made available). This might be what Hendler refers to when he talks about the peer review status and downstream tracking capability for the document.

Embedded objects in the document carry their own tagging information depending on where it was obtained. There are a couple of new startups that are building around a new tagging idea called Deep Tagging. Deep tagging is extremely useful in organizing and sharing lengthy video and audio files online. Here is how deep tagging works in Veotag:

1. Users upload a video or audio file to Veotag

2. Using a web-based deep tagging tool, users can assign tags (Veotags) to specific clips from the file.

3. When other users are viewing this file, they have the option to play the whole file from the beginning to the end or jump back and forth between different Veotagged clips.
   
   

Citation labeling is a different animal all to itself. There are a number of different up and coming products that assist in citation labeling including Zotero. The ability of Zotero to query page content across links is pretty cool because it has the ability automatically capture citation information from the linked source. The added benefit to the product is that it is currently free and open source. It is kind of raw at the moment but it has promise.

Community enhancement is a hot topic at the moment in fact I recently posted an article entitled the Social Networking Revolution.

There is a great workshop coming up called Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2007) which is the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capturing to be held at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada October 28-31, 2007.

Social Networking Revolution

There was a recent summit on social networking put on by AlwaysOn Stanford that was very productive. I would have liked to have seen Dan Nye (CEO of LinkedIn) on the panel as well but still it was a pretty productive summit.

The panel included:

• Travis Katz (Senior Vice President of MySpace)
• Dustin Moskovitz (co founder of Facebook)
• Rich Rosenblatt (CEO of Demand Media)
• Gina Bianchini (CEO of Ning)
• Karl Jacob (CEO of Wallop)

The panel brought up an interesting point that social networking has already taken hold of the online gaming market, not only from gaming sites that host games like chess but through other more sophisticated teaming environments hosted by valve and the like. Other authors including Stefan Decker and Martin Frank envisioned the Social Semantic Desktop as a result of combining the ideas of Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer computing and Social networking.

With gaming set aside, the transformation from a hyperlinked web content currently used today to a Semantic Web-based technology is another dimension that Danish Nadeem addresses in his thesis called "Cognitive Aspects of Semantic Desktop to Support Personal Information Management". Nadeem and others suggest that a semantic desktop approach would enable the casual web user to take part by publishing, learning and forming their own social network with relatively little difficulty.