Publishing Technology, a UK-based provider of services to the publishing industry, has announced that it has joined Breathing Space, a semantic web collaboration between scholarly societies, as a technology partner. Publishing Technology will deploy its pub2web platform for Breathing Space, which is being coordinated by TBI Communications, a strategic marketing consultancy for scholarly publishers.
Breathing Space seeks to collate content from the European Respiratory Society and American Thoracic Society, who together are said to account for 30% of citations within the field of respiratory medicine. Publishing Technology’ experience in the deployment of semantic technologies within highly functional publication websites is projected to help the new project operate on an innovative platform. Breathing Space is scheduled for launch by the end of 2009, a timescale claimed to be made possible by the modular nature of the pub2web platform.
TBI Communications first proposed a pilot project to help society publishers test the application of semantic technologies in 2008. It has since coordinated the selection of participating societies and technology providers, and provided web design, strategic consultancy and promotional support.
According to Publishing Technology, pub2web was developed as a series of components that can be readily fit together to meet a publisher’s specific needs. Architecting websites in this way is also expected to make it easier to update individual modules, so that the project can quickly respond to market conditions with up-to-date functionality.
Last month, Publishing Technology had announced a partnership with Japan-based content solutions provider Sunmedia to use pub2web to rebuild Sunmedia’s online publishing platform as a robust new research service. Earlier in October, the platform was used to launch a new and expanded ICE Virtual Library for the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and its publishing subsidiary, Thomas Telford.
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