Enhanced Publications : Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories

Abstract

In the digital world of scholarly publishing online access is provided to articles, hyperlinked reference and supplementary data. Connection with social networking, e.g. blogs, relation with other materials, e.g. multimedia, and semantic context, e.g. XML, is not realised widely at present. Publications and related objects are processed separately as single objects and connections between them are not easy to find. As no relation between single objects is provided, it is difficult to find out whether related objects are available. Meanwhile, the number of scholarly objects on the Internet is growing very quickly. Integration of all this scientific information by linkage is necessary to keep publishing efficient and to maintain control over the process. Therefore, publications should provide those links, resulting in ‘Enhanced Publications’.