Post on 16-Apr-2017
Formed in May 2015 through the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media
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We publish science We manage knowledge
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We’ve come a long way…
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NPG Linked Data Platform
Nature Ontologies
Springer Materials
Springer ConferencesScigraph.com
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Enterprise metadata managementaddressing the data fragmentation problempromoting a culture of data governance and reuse
Content discoverabilitysearch: handling morphological variations, synonyms, generalisations etc…browse: more detailed and interesting discovery pathwaysdynamic semantic publishing: repurposing content based on context and metadata
We believe in open sciencescience is a global collaborative effort that we want to support!Open Access for readers, Open Peer Review & Open Choice for authors Linked Open Data publishing (since 2012)
Why Linked Data
Developers: lack of interest for RDFtoo ‘academic’, too many namespacessolution: focus on data integration, JSON-LD
Scalability & performancesemantic graph databases are less mature than conventional technologiessolution: GraphDB + Elasticsearch
Collaboration among publishersbusiness concerns: ‘sharing our data, we’re losing competitive advantage’solution: keep healthy balance between publishing Linked Open Data and private Linked Datasolution: importance of neutral, third party mediators, e.g. CrossRef with conference identifiers
Challenges
RDF?