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.

Transcript

1. Future formats Representing the next generation of scholarly articles
3. @srp Steve Pettifer
4. @srp Steve Pettifer Vs.
5. @srp Steve Pettifer @mfenner Martin Fenner Vs.
7. An insult to science
8. n insult to scienc
9. Like inventing the telephone... and then using it to transmit Morse code
10. Like inventing the telephone... and then using it to transmit Morse code
11. A hamburger that we are trying to turn back into a cow
12. A hamburger that we are trying to turn back into a cow
13. Over 80% of all articles are downloaded as PDFs
15. How do we read articles now? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/1278741466/
17. 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.
18. •Downloadable / archivable as single items •Mine to keep •Can’t be sneakily modified
19. PDF is broken for mobile devices
24. PDF is not good for linking content
25. “Stories that persuade with data” Anita De Waard, Knowledge Media Panel, University of Toronto, Sept 2010
26. PDFs have ‘edges’. This is a good thing. http://www.quora.com/Why-do-scientists-tend-to-prefer-PDF-documents-over-HTML-when-reading-scientific-journals
27. Stories have a beginning, a middle and an end.
40. 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
41. “I asked for some data, but was sent it as a table in a PDF file.
42. “I asked for some data, but was sent it as a table in a PDF file. I can’t do anything with that.
43. “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.”
44. The is no such thing as a stupid format...
45. The is no such thing as a stupid format... ... only stupid people.
46. All the momentum is behind HTML (and CSS, JavaScript)
47. Charts with Highcharts JavaScript
48. Table sorting with jQuery
49. Layout with Twitter Bootstrap CSS
50. Typography with Adobe Typekit
51. Publishing with Wordpress (Annotum)
52. Discussion...
53. Ways Forward?
54. Best of both worlds? utopiadocs.com
56. Tips and Recommendations
57. Work on HTML reading experience of your journal
61. Use Responsive Design
64. Work with offline readers such as Instapaper
65. Provide ePub for offline reading and archiving
66. ePub
67. How will we read articles in 5 years’ time? http://www.flickr.com/photos/zandwacht/5718319650/