A "Smart" Cyberinfrastructure for Research

Parastatidis, Viegas, Hey

smart documents cyberinfrastructure semantic web annotations

@article{parastatidis:communications2009,
  title={A ``Smart'' Cyberinfrastructure for Research},
  author={Savas Parastatidis and Evelyne Viegas and Tony Hey},
  journal={Communications of the {ACM}},
  year={2009},
  month={December},
  volume={52},
  number={12}
}

Presents work in several domains developing standardized vocabularies and ontologies that may be embedded into documents

• E.g., chemical notation annotated in a Word document

Efforts on vocabulary standardization

• Microformats: http://microformats.org
• Data Portability: http://dataportability.org
• Gene ontology: http://geneontology.org

Office Open XML (OOXML) accepted as ISO standard

• http://openxmldeveloper.org

Embedding into Word documents

• http://uscdbiolit.codeplex.com
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chem4word/