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Semantic publishing

For over 350 years, scientific publications have been fundamental to advancing science. Since the first scholarly journals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (of London) and the Journal de Sçavans, scientific papers have been the primary, formal means by which scholars have communicated their work, e.g., hypotheses, methods, results, experiments, etc. Advances in technology have made it possible for the scientific article to adopt electronic dissemination channels, from paper-based journals to purely electronic formats. However, In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in general

Saved 26 February 2013 / sepublica.mywikipaper.org ↗

#retrieval #formal-means #transactions

No formal route from the informal

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Epigrams On Programming #means #formal-means

Astronomers of the information universe

Do you like astronomy, the universe? Great, 'cause we are the astronomers of the information universe. The STKO Lab is an information observatory that…

About The Stko Lab | Stko Lab #retrieval #Semantic-Web

Bitcoin's value comes from scarcity

One one level it's basic economics; if there is a demand for something and it is scarce it's price goes up, the scarcer it gets the more it's value increases…

Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #prices #transactions

Bitcoin, a currency no company controls

Bitcoins are an anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency.In contrast to older forms of electronic money, no company controls Bitcoin, nor ever…

Bitcoin: What You Need To Know | Technology | Theguardian.com #Bitcoin #transactions #companies

Can Bitcoin's origins be trusted?

Since the initial formulation of the Byzantine Generals problem in 1982, it has been the subject of intense academic study and several Byzantine-tolerant…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #Bitcoin #money #algorithm #transactions