Insights from Web 3.0: Is it Time for a New Scientific Publishing Methodology?

Scientific publishing almost hasn’t changed for the last few centuries. Conferences and Journals are the only two ways to publish scientific information. On the other hand publishing technology has advanced from ordinary typography and it is ironic that scientific institutions, which should be the primers in using advanced technologies, still use traditional (often black and white) paper publishing. Today’s Web interfaces to journals act mainly as digital archives of non-digital papers. Technology allows us to use multimedia systems, software applications, social and semantic web facilities that could tremendously improve publishing quality and allow for more scientific interaction. In order to show some of the possibilities of these new technologies, the TaOPis-system will be presented.