Monthly Archives: March 2013

At Beyond the PDF2 www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2 a number of us felt that we needed a radical approach to scholarship and its communication. This wasn’t planned, but 25 of us met at lunch and decide we wanted to DO something different. There … Continue reading →

I’m at “Beyond the PDF2” http://www.force11.org/beyondthepdf2 – which is meant to redesign scholarly publication. I am getting increasingly restless. (I am a “retired” academic – working as hard as ever – but I have an increasingly unhappy view of academia). … Continue reading →

I am at the potentially exciting Beyond the PDF2 in Amsterdam. Because the Wifi is intermittent (at best) I’ll blog – not linearly or systematically. Because I spend much of my time with the Open Knowledge Foundation #okfn I see … Continue reading →

AMI2 and I are going through Biomed Central papers as they are some of the few that carry CC-BY licences. We’ve started at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/310 and here’s a picture we’ve found: What is it? Unfortunately it’s a JPEG and we can’t … Continue reading →

There has been a week or two of discourse about licences for scholarly publications – much of it attempting to show that the widely used CC-BY licence (from Creative Commons) has problems. The standard of discourse (from academics) has been … Continue reading →

#ami2 has been working on converting PDFs to scientific XML and we have made significant progress. Today we converted a page of PDF to chunks of SVG and then aggregated these to XHTML and non-textual chunks. We’ll show some of … Continue reading →

#animalgarden like everything that’s Open and especially animals so they were very excited to hear of @thePeerJ and its blue monkey. PeerJ is an Open Access publisher (and PMR thinks it’s a good thing and may publish in it). But … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited. They are going to Beyond-the-PDF2 #btpdf2 and have been accepted for a demo. That’s a lot of hard work so they are working hard. Last time you saw them (/pmr/2013/03/05/animalgarden-ami2-svg2xml-ignorantchemist-transforming-pdfs-into-xml/ ) they had extracted the characters from … Continue reading →

  #ami2 has “solved” the problem of transforming PDFs into SVG and Unicode. “solved” is relative as there is a perpetual increase in non-conformant PDFs with strange fonts, but AMI2 has transformations for the most important. She probably has a … Continue reading →

#animalgarden are excited – the Blue Monkey needs a name: http://blog.peerj.com/post/43649138800/name-the-peerj-monkey Many of you already know and love the PeerJ Monkey Mascot. Up until now, we just called it “Monkey” and Monkey has already starred in its own line of … Continue reading →