Publishing, Embedding Semantics in an Age of AI

Publishing is the craft of taking an authors work, improving it through the editorial process, preparing it for publication and distributing it. Digital publishing production processes enhance the author’s text through markup and embedded semantic information. But in an age of AI reading do the machines need this extra step? 

In this talk, Todd Carpenter (Executive Director of NISO) will explore the role of semantic enrichment of text in a machine intermediated world and how it may need to change.