Reference publishing
The advantages of semantic web technologies are significant with respect to metadata
publishing. Publishing bibliographical references together with traditional metadata
promises to take the linking between academic papers one step further to a level where
essential connections between distinct academic work could be understood by
machines. In order to enable linked data applications to discover datasets as well as to
ease the integration of data from multiple sources, linked data publishers should
comply with a set of best practices (Heath and Bizer, 2011):