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Future formats: representing the next generation of scholarly articles

Future formats: representing the next generation of scholarly articles

Presentation used by Steve Petiffer and Martin Fenner at the UKSG 2012 Meeting March 27/28 in Glasgow.

Martin Fenner

March 27, 2012
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  1. Keeping the ‘minutes of science’ Jan Velterop, “Keeping the Minutes

    of Science” in: Proceedings of Electronic Libraries and Visual Information Research (ELVIRA) Conference, Aslib, London, No. 2-14 May 1995.
  2. PDF fallacies 101 • PDF is a ‘closed format’ •

    PDFs are not ‘semantic’ and have no ‘structure’ • PDFs can’t encode international characters • You can’t extract images / text / whatever • There’s no free software to process PDFs
  3. “I asked for some data, but was sent it as

    a table in a PDF file. I can’t do anything with that.
  4. “I asked for some data, but was sent it as

    a table in a PDF file. I can’t do anything with that. Therefore, PDFs are stupid.”