Just when you think you’ve gotten up to speed David has a way of throwing you with his posts.
Last week’s seminar on “Ready for Web 3.0?” organized by ALPSP and chaired by Louise Tutton of Publishing Technologies was just what the doctor ordered in terms of curing us of the idea that we still have time to consider whether we embrace the semantic web or not . It is here , and in scholarly publishing terms it is becoming the default embedded value , the new plateau onto which we must all struggle in order to catch our breath while building the next level of value-add which forms the expectation of users coming to grips with a networked information society today . And from the scholarly world it will spread everywhere.