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The digital scholar’s workbench

This presentation by Ian Barnes at ELPUB 2007 delves into essential questions surrounding text preservation: What format should we utilize? How can documents be converted into that format? And how do we incentivize authors to participate? Barnes evaluates various formats, emphasizing XML's advantages, discusses the challenges of converting documents from complex word processing formats, and identifies strategies to enhance author engagement and increase deposit rates in repositories. The work highlights the importance of open standards and offers practical solutions to improve preservation practices.

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The digital scholar’s workbench

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  1. The digital scholar’s workbench Ian Barnes ELPUB 2007 Vienna — 13th to 15th June 2007

  2. This work was supported by the Australian government through: Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  3. Preservation of text This is a story in three parts, each concerned with a question about text preservation: • What format should we use? • How do we convert documents into that format? • How do we get authors to actually do this? Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  4. What format? • Word? PDF? ODF? XML?? • Criteria: • Structure vs appearance • Open, free standards-based vs proprietary, closed • Based on plain text vs binary • Easy to transform/migrate/process • On these criteria, only XML is any good, but what XML? • DocBook? TEI? • XHTML + … • Custom format? Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  5. How to convert into XML? • This is a technical question • It can be difficult — word processing formats are a big mess • The problem is mostly solved if authors use styles from a good template (e.g. the ICE template from University of Southern Queensland) • Without styles, this is a work in progress Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  6. How do we get people to do this? • This is not a technical question • Low deposit rate is a big problem for repositories • Why? • People don’t care (until age 64) • It’s too much work The solution: offer more, make it worthwhile • Multiple publishing pathways • Instant feedback/turnaround • Interoperability • … and much more … Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  7. Document in word processor Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  8. Converted automatically to HTML Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  9. Open Document Format XML Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  10. Open Document Format XML Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  11. Open Document Format XML Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  12. DocBook XML Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  13. Automatically generated PDF Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

  14. Proposed features • One-click archiving including metadata extraction (already demonstrated with DSpace) • Reformatting for journal/conference submission • Publish to web site • Publish to blog • Complex and large documents (multi-part) • Version control • Collaboration/interoperability/round-tripping Ian Barnes - ELPUB2007 Vienna

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