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

[Tim Clark]

Amit, We would also be interested in discussing ways of integrating SWAN - which is very "publishing-oriented" at its upper level- with such other efforts as PlosOne, and SPE.  Why don't we have a discussion by phone this week?   Tim Clark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Clark 617-947-7098 (mobile) Director of Research Programs Harvard University Initiative in Innovative Computing 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://iic.harvard.edu Director of Informatics MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease 114 16th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129 http://www.mindinformatics.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On MondaySep 4, 2006, at 2:25 PM, 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/ demonstrates another use case. You may take a look at it if you haven't done so.  I'll appreciate any comment. AJ -- AJ Chen, PhD http://web2express.org