Enabling scientific data on the web
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Thompson, Henry
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Robertson, Dave
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Milowski, Raymond Alexander
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dc.date.accessioned
2015-02-23T14:59:01Z
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2015-02-23T14:59:01Z
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2014-11-27
dc.description.abstract
Scientific data does not exist on the Web in the same way as the written
word; reviews, media, wikis, social networks, and blogs all contribute to
the interconnected nature of ordinary language on the Web. Network effects
create additional value from seemingly minor contributions to the Web. But
nothing such as this exists for scientific data. Simply put, within the Open
Web Platform, we cannot currently turn and apply similar mechanisms for
scientific work without great effort. Thus, the Web has not so far enabled
Science as well as it has enabled dissemination and interconnection for the
written word: to truly enable Science on the Web, we must endeavor to make
data and its semantics first-class Web constituents.
This thesis focuses on solving this problem by enabling scientific data to exist
on the Web in such a way that it can be processed both as viewable content
and consumed data. Starting from the principles on which the Web has so
far thrived, we propose solutions to enable complex data exchanges while
preserving the Web as it stands. We introduce the Partition Annotate Name
(PAN) methodology, which relies upon embracing the core architectural
principles of the Web: name things with URIs; process common data formats;
use common rules under a shared contract between publisher, developer, and
consumer.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9957
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The University of Edinburgh
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“XML in the Browser: the Next Decade”, R. Alexander Miłowski, Balisage: The Markup Conference, August 11 - 14, 2009, Montreal, Canada, vol 3, 2009, doi:10.4242/ BalisageVol3.Milowski01 ; see also http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol3/epub/ Milowski01/BalisageVol3-Milowski01.epub
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“XProc: An XML Pipeline Language”, W3C, 2010-05-11, Norman Walsh, Alex Miłowski, and Henry S. Thompson ; see also http://www.w3.org/TR/xproc/
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“Green Turtle”, R. Alexander Miłowski ; see also https://code.google.com/p/greenturtle/
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“Local Knowledge for In Situ Services”, R. Alexander Miłowski and Henry S. Thompson, XML Prague 2013, 2013-02-09 ; see also http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2013/files/ xmlprague-2013-proceedings.epub
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web
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science
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dc.subject
RDFa
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semantics
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dc.title
Enabling scientific data on the web
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Thesis or Dissertation
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dc.type.qualificationlevel
Doctoral
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dc.type.qualificationname
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
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