Semantic publication provides a way for computers to understand the structure and even the meaning of the published information, making information search and data integration more efficient.
[11] RSS1.0, uses RDF (a semantic web standard) format, although it has become less popular than RSS2.0 and Atom.
Tim Berners-Lee predicted in 2001 that the semantic web "will likely profoundly change the very nature of how scientific knowledge is produced and shared, in ways that we can now barely imagine".
[8] Researchers could directly self-publish their experiment data in "semantic" format on the web.
The W3C interest group in healthcare and life sciences is exploring this idea.