This piece was reachable on my website at a different URL, since 1999, but I just decided to move it here. **** Abstract (of a talk at IUK99), 1999, March 24 A possible way of maintaining validity and accessibility of references in an electronically published scientific document, is presented. A definition of Active Brokers Network, [...]

Why semantic libraries 1.Context The scientific research and its use by the public is strongly affected by the way authors, librarians and publishers interact. The fast evolution of the digital environment brought this interaction in a modern crisis: the scientists use today non-semantic software tools for authoring their articles (tools designed around certain types of [...]

I will be enumerating here a couple of pressing issues, related to semantic authoring and preservation, in the context of digital creation, administration and usage of scientific documents; accordingly, some present and future solutions to these are sketched out. Status of authoring Although some standards related to the structuring of documents have emerged: DocBook for [...]