Includes bibliographical references and index.

Changing knowledge systems in the era of the social web / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Frameworks for knowledge representation / Liam Magee -- The meaning of meaning: alternative disciplinary perspectives / Liam Magee -- What does the digital do to knowledge making? / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Books and journal articles: the textual practices of academic knowledge / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Textual representations and knowledge support-systems in research intensive networks / Richard Vines, William P. Hall and Gavan McCarthy -- An historical introduction to formal knowledge systems / Liam Magee -- Contemporary dilemmas: tables versus webs / Liam Magee -- Upper-level ontologies / Liam Magee -- Describing knowledge domains: a case study of biological ontologies / Liam Magee -- On commensurability / Liam Magee -- A framework for commensurability / Liam Magee -- Creating an interlanguage of the social web / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis -- Interoperability and the exchange of humanly usable digital content / Richard Vines and Joseph Firestone -- Framing a new agenda for semantic publishing / Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis.

Annotation This text links broad theoretical and historical understandings of textual practices to contemporary digital media. It bridges the gap between an analysis of the 'Semantic Web' narrowly and technically concieved and wider trends in 'semantic publishing'. The book provides a critical yet balanced view of the promise and potential of the 'Semantic web' and semantic publishing. A further discussion links strategic ideas of 'knowledge management' with the logistics of semantic publishing.