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This chapter looks into how the use of semantic technologies can provide support to common needs in eScience projects, including data-intensive science, facilitating experiment knowledge reuse and recycle among scientists, lowering the barriers of knowledge exchange for interdisciplinary research, and bridging the gap between data from different sources and the gap between data sharing and digital scholarly publication. To illustrate this, we describe a set of pioneering semantic eScience projects that cover a diversity of application domains including bioinformatics, biology, chemistry, physics, environmental science, and astronomy, and we summarize some of the open issues and future lines of research and development in this area.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK

    Jun Zhao

  2. Ontology Engineering Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Oscar Corcho

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Paolo Missier, Khalid Belhajjame & Carole A. Goble

  4. School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    David Newmann

  5. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, 7 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG, UK

    David de Roure

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Zhao, J. et al. (2011). eScience. In: Domingue, J., Fensel, D., Hendler, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92913-0_17

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