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For those who want to take a glimpse at where science and scientific discourse are going, take a look at some of the papers at this workshop: Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse , October 26, 2009, Proceedings ), part of The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) Keynote: Enabling Semantic Publication and Integration of Scientific Information David Shotton. Presentation . A Short Survey of Discourse Representation Models Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Tim Clark and Simon Buckingham Shum Paper Presentation Strategic Reading and Scientific Discourse Allen Renear and Carole Palmer Paper 'Confortation': about a new qualitative category for analyzing biomedical texts Delphine Battistelli, Antonietta Folino, Patricia Geretto, Ludivine Kuznik, Jean-Luc Minel and Florence Amardeilh Paper Presentation Hypotheses, Evidence and Relationships:The HypER Model of Representing Scientific Knowledge Anita de Waard, Simon Buckingham Shu...

Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, ISWC International Workshops, URSW 2005-2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1 , Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Of note: Towards Machine Learning on the Semantic Web. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_17 Author copy: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/poole/papers/SemSciChapter2008.pdf Semantic Science: Ontologies, Data and Probabilistic Theories. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_2 Analogical Reasoning in Description Logics . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_19 Table of Contents: Fernando Bobillo, Miguel Delgado, Juan Gómez-Romero. 2008. A Crisp Representation for Fuzzy with Fuzzy Nominals and General Concept Inclusions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_11 Mauro Mazzieri, Aldo Franco Dragoni. 2008. A Fuzzy Semantics for the Resource Description Framework . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89765-1_15 Matthias Nickles, Ruth Cobos. 2008. An Approa...

I am looking forward to getting a hold of this just announced book, Semantic Digital Libraries , Editors: Sebastian Ryszard Kruk , DERI NUI, Galway, Bill McDaniel , DERI NUI, Galway. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE) 2009, XVI, 246 p. 1 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85433-3. The site for the book includes Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries , a tutorial presented at JCDL2008 , as well as a faceted searchable interface to the (extensive and useful) links described in the book. Contents Introduction Part I - Introduction to Digital Libraries and Semantic Web Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization Semantic Web and Ontologies Social Semantic Information Spaces Part II - A Vision of Semantic Digital Libraries Goals of Semantic Digital Libraries Architecture of Semantic Digital Libraries Long-time Preservation Part III - Ontologies for Semantic Digital Libraries Bibliographic Ontology Community-aware Ontologies Part IV - Prototypes of Semantic Digital Libraries JeromeDL...