Abstract
This paper advocates that connectivity is the technological foundation of digital scholarship and argues that the characteristics of
modern science, i.e. data-centric, multidisciplinary, open, network-centric and heavily dependent on internet technologies entail
the creation of a linked, semantically enhanced scholarly record composed of interconnected discipline-specific literature and
scientific, social, and humanities data spaces. The changing scenario of the scholarly record is illustrated by describing the
principal transformations now being enabled by advanced linking and semantic technologies. The main functionality of a
cyberscholarship infrastructure is described, i.e. the ability to effectively and efficiently support a linking environment.