Different species of scientific markup languages

Semantic Web languages such as RDF and OWL are designed for general purpose knowledge representation. In order to meet the specific needs of science community, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) hosted a workshop on scientific markup languages.

The goals of the workshop were to assess and document scientific disciplines' work on markup languages (MLs) and to begin to articulate a vision for the future evolution and implementation of markup languages in support of a cyberinfrastructure for research and education, with a particular focus on using markup languages in the context of the NSDL.

NSF / NSDL Workshop on Scientific Markup Languages, D-Lib Magazine, November 2005, Volume 11 Number 11, ISSN 1082-9873

D-Lib Magazine has a full article that discuss this workshop. I think that this article is of interest to any people who want to learn about knowledge representation requirements of different scientific communities and different markup languages that are adopted by the communities (ArcXML, GML, CML, MathML, MatML etc.).