Scientific knowledge object patterns

Abstract

Web technology is revolutionizing the way diverse scientific knowledge is produced and disseminated. In the past few years, a handful of discourse representation models have been proposed for the externalization of the rhetoric and argumentation captured within scientific publications. However, there has not yet been a unified interoperable pattern that is commonly used in practice by publishers and individual users. In this paper, we introduce Scientific Knowledge Object (SKO) Patterns towards a general scientific discourse representation model, especially for managing knowledge in emerging social web and semantic web.