Web2x Publishing Software v0.2
Subject
open data, web publishing, semantic publishing, semantic web, BOON, SPE
Product Category
Internet Software
Catalog Number
web2×0001
Model
open source
Version
0.2
Short Description
Web2x Publishing software is an easy-to-use self-publishing platform for publishing information to the current HTML web layer as well as the emerging semantic web layer. It is built on top of the popular open source blogger software called WordPress. Using Web2x Publishing, users can publish specific types of information such as product and experiment in HTML and in RDF at the same time. Information published this way will be searchable by both regular and semantic search engines, and thus will become more widely accessible. Web2x implements ontologies for semantic publishing that are being developed by open communities such as W3C.
Specifications
Current Features
1. Add a semantic dimension to existing company web site. One can publish all the usual web pages in semantic data format, including products, services, licensing opportunity, technology, news, events, and company information.
2. Semantically publish any experiment and related information by writing specific types of posts and pages, including Experiment, Project, Protocol, Publication.
3. Automatically pre-fill the editor with template corresponding to the semantic post or page.
4. Automatically save semantic post and page to RDF file. As a result, each specific post or page is presented in two forms: HTML and RDF.
5. Provide RDF link on each HTML page for the published semantic data.
6. Create a site map, which is dynamically generated each time when the page is viewed and thus always up-to-date.
7. Create product catalog page listing all products.
Web2x is built on top of WordPress, which has many useful features, including:
1. Organize published information in categories, and archive information by month and day.
2. Allow readers to provide comments to the published information, an effective way to interact with everyone in the community.
3. User account and privilege control.
4. Hundreds of themes to choose from.
5. Optimized for search engines.
6. RSS feed available.
Key Technology
Implements BOON ontology and SPE ontology. Represents web information in both HTML and RDF.
Applications
Intended Users:
Researchers: Any researcher or laboratory doing research and development can use this self-publishing tool to publish individual experiments, projects, protocols, and researcher information as web pages and semantic data objects (RDF file).
Product providers: Any product providers, either manufacturers or distributors, can use this self-publishing tool to publish their web site information, particularly product catalog, as web pages and semantic objects.
User Benefits:
For researchers:
• Unlock your most precious assets – experiment data. Traditionally, you publish your research results and selected data as papers in research journals. This process leaves out most of your experiment data. Even for the data published in papers, they most likely are not available for search through popular free search engines because papers’ full-texts are kept behind wall by publishers. Such traditional publishing model provides public exposure to only a tiny portion of your research information. Now, web2x self-publishing platform empowers you to share your research information with the world quick and easy, fully unlocking the values of your most precious assets.
• Maximize your visibility. The experiment information published by this tool becomes immediately available on the web in both HTML and RDF forms. This means your work will be accessible to not only regular search engines like Google and Yahoo but also semantic web search engines, which will increase your visibility.
• Better data sharing and searching. Experiment information published in RDF enables much more effective search based on semantics. Web2x implements ontologies developed by open communities like W3C and thus ensure your data can be shared and discovered by the largest number of people as well as applications.
• Open new doors for collaboration. Since your published data will be in semantic format, they can be accurately cross-referenced and integrated. Other people may discover one or more of your experiments can be re-used in their studies, which will bring to you unexpected opportunities for collaboration.
• Publish and share your data at your own pace. Web2x is built on popular blogger software WordPress, which is designed to be installed on your web server in a few simple steps. With the publishing tool under your control, you can publish whenever you want and own whatever you publish.
For product providers:
• Optimize search engine marketing by leveraging the semantic web. Web2x publishes your product information on the web in both html and RDF formats. Not only regular search engines but also semantic web search engines will be able to find your products.
• Maximally expose your products. By publishing all your products with Web2x, your products are no longer locked in the database.
• Bring your products much closer to your customers. Your products published by Web2x will be given unique identifiers called URI. With these URIs available, your customers will be able to precisely identify the reagents and tools used in their experiments when they publish the experiments using Web2x.
User Manual
User Manual Link
http://web2express.org/openlab/docs/web2x-publishing.html
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References
Manufacturer
web2express.org
Distributor
Price (amount)
free
Price (currency)
Promotion
Launch Date
10 /19/2006