Connecting datasets and publications automatically
Wouldn’t it be great for a scientific data archive to know what publications made use of their data sets? Pingback mechanisms, used in blog systems, can send citation notifications automatically. Can the same be applicable for online journal systems, notifying each other and data archives about citations? It all comes down to agree on using a really simple standard.
This blog article describes  very drafty the Ping-back mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) used in blogs, now used in repositories, data archives and journal systems.
This idea is just giving an …

Last weekend  Google, Microsoft’s BING and Yahoo! agreed to use the MicroData format as a common standard and schema.org as a common vocabulary to make search even more efficient.  Will this also be the answer for describing inter-related scholarly work, aka Enhanced Publications?
The standard the Big3 have announced can be found on http://www.schema.org/ . With this HTML pages can be enriched, by simply making semantic annotations to your current HTML markup. For Institutional repostitories, who are already being crawled by search engines, this means they can finaly rely on a standard that makes sense …

“Page not found” nowadays in the dynamic information society a common phrase when you use your old bookmarks. To find your beloved document you have to “Google” it. A web-crawling search engine is by far the most reliable resolver of the documents, but there is no guarantee. This is fine, you get some, you loose some. However when considering working in a academic arena, this really gets annoying. New Knowledge is build  on older knowledge to reject or refine this knowledge, to answer new questions. when you cannot read back …

Scientometrics 2.0: Toward new metrics on scholarly impact on the social web
by: Jason Priem and Bradley M. Hemminger
Source: First Monday, Volume 15, Number 7 – 5 July 2010
Source: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2874/2570
Abstract
The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to examine the use and citation of articles in a new forum: Web 2.0 services like social bookmarking and microblogging. Metrics based on this data could build a “Scientometics 2.0,” supporting richer and more timely pictures of …

This Library could be useful for creating visualisations of the relationships in Enhanced Publications
http://thejit.org/demos/
http://wiki.surffoundation.nl/display/vpinfra/1.3+ORE+visualiser

You might have noticed it already at Friday the launch of Wolfram Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com).
The semantic search engine from Wolfram Mathematica that gives you answers based on many many linked databases.
(this one is simple in queries and interface, runs smooth, and looks sexy)
For example “how many times fits the goldengate bridge between the moon and the earth?”:
http://www59.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=distance+moon+earth+%2F+length+golden+gate+bridge
Not only the interpretation ans presentation of the data is magnificent, especially when you ask about chemical structures or music notes
http://www59.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=D%20dominant%20eleventh , but how the data is connected?
With this we see that Open Data becomes …