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White Paper on the EPUBWEB project
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Good reference to the scholarly publishing issue (if needed) #24

Closed iherman closed 9 years ago

iherman commented 9 years ago

The following paper:

T. K. Attwood, D. B. Kell, P. McDermott, J. Marsh, S. R. Pettifer, and D. Thorne, “Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!,” Biochemical Journal, vol. 424, pp. 317-333, 2009. See http://www.biochemj.org/bj/ev/424/0317/bj4240317_ev.htm

has a number of nice references to various experiments that try to use the facilities of HTML for scholarly publishing. The paper is not new but may be useful nevertheless...

iherman commented 9 years ago

Actually... it may be a bit misleading to add a reference to this paper. It indeed describes a number of issues arising of the necessities of reading (scholarly) publications (need for all kinds of interactive facilities, reaching out to remote data, etc), but it realized (in 2008-2009!) it through a very special PDF reader (called Utopia), and that may be misleading in this White Paper. I close this issue without further action. (Pity, because the examples are nice and would be much more natural in an EPUB-WEB environment.)

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