Future formats: representing the next generation of scholarly articles

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1. Future formats Representing the next generation of scholarly articles

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3. @srp Steve Pettifer

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5. @srp Steve Pettifer @mfenner Martin Fenner Vs.

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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

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15. How do we read articles now? http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/1278741466/

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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

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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.

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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

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56. Tips and Recommendations

57. Work on HTML reading experience of your journal

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61. Use Responsive Design

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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/