The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"Many people will be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee’s five stars of linked data, categorising the publication of data on the web in levels of increasing usefulness. To complement these, I wish to propose the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, in particular to characterize the potential for improvement to the primary medium of scholarly communication made possible by web technologies, including the semantic publishing approaches....[The five stars are] Peer review...Open Access...Enriched content Use the full potential of web technologies and web standards to provide interactivity and semantic enrichment to the content of your online article...Available datasets...Machine-readable metadata...."