The Evolving Information Ecostructure of Publishing

Evan Owens.

American Institute of Physics

It has been nearly 25 years since the invention of SGML and the appearance of the first journal article DTD standard and 15 years since the first online journals appeared on the web. A lot has changed in the landscape of publishing in that time...and not just in publishing technology and journal article markup. This paper presents a brief historical overview followed by observations on current trends and speculation as to what will come next in the information management requirements of scholarly and scientific publishing.