Why is an XML Workflow an Advantage

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Why is an XML Workflow an Advantage ?

• Its all about solving business problems bringing
  out new products!

Bob Kelly American Physical Society Director
Journal Information Systems rakelly_at_aps.org
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THE FUTURE OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONBUILDING
THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CYBERSCHOLARSHIP(being
competitive in the future))

• The widespread availability of digital content
  creates opportunities for new forms of research
  and scholarship that are qualitatively different
  from traditional ways of using academic
  publications and research data. We call this
  "cyberscholarship.
• The widespread availability of content in digital
  formats provides an infrastructure for novel
  forms of research. To support cyberscholarship,
  such content must be captured, managed, and
  preserved in ways that are significantly
  different from conventional methods.
• A report sponsored by the National Science
  Foundation and the Joint Information Systems
  Committee April 2007

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Why XMLfor text, equations and figures

• Because, with a standardized archival file, you
  can create other deliverables with out
  re-creating the source.
• Supports current and future deliverables and
  business decisions

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Content will be reused!
It is a web world! It should only be created
once!

• Multiple readable deliverables

• Multiple system deliverables

• Print
• Web
• PDF
• Browsers
• Smart Devices
• E-Books
• Accessible Readers

• Secondary Publisher
• Data Base
• Google
• Federated Searching
• Web 2.0
• Web 3.0

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Business and Product Rationale

• Organizational restructuring
• Separate formatting from production
• Multiple formats from single source
• Reusable content
• Automate navigation
• Search index creation
• On Line

• Integration with content from other publishers
• Data feed product
• Web 2.0 Products
• Web 3.0 products
• Accessible products
• Interactive products

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IBM 198os

• Multiple authoring locations
• Share documentation development across locations.
• Solution Generalized Mark Up Language
  predecessor to SGML.
• Separate composition from formatting use
  tagging for navigation and formatting.
• Unexpected Benefit
• First electronic deliverable, searchable,
  navigable, readable, for sighted and for visually
  impaired with a screen reader all built from
  same file

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APS 1995 Create new products

• Migrate PRL from manual, past-up process to an
  SGML (now XML) first production process
• Deliver articles in print and acrobat reader
• Title, abstracts, authors, references on line and
  article in pdf.
• TOC and Front Matter freely available
• Print and online plus search index all single
  sourced
• Unexpected benefit
• 1998 all APS journals online from single dtd
• 1998 all journal back files, to 1893, online
  with front and back matter in SGML/XML
• 1998 - articles published daily deconstruct
  the journal production process
• Linking to other online journal via doi, part of
  production process

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APS Current

• New deliverables
• Exploit common back file XML Source to introduce
  new deliverables
• Develop revenue producing products, such as
  harvesting XML via Open Archive Initiative
  Protocol
• RSS - a family Web feed formats used to publish
  frequently updated works Tables of Contents,
  etc. in a standardized format - Wikipedia
• Microformats a web-based approach to semantic
  markup to re-use existing tags to convey metadata
  and other attributes - Wikipedia
• MathML- Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is
  an application of XML for describing
  mathematical notations and describing both its
  structure and content. - Wikipedia

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APS Near and Not So Near Future

• RDF Resource Description Framework a World Wide
  Web Consortium specification for a metadata model
  and component in the proposed Semantic Web
  Wikipedia
• Personalization
• SVG for Figures an XML specifiction and file
  format for describing two-dimensional vector
  graphics, both static and dynamic - Wikipedia
• XML, MathML and SVG to DAISY Readers for
  Accessibility -project with ViewPlus Technologies
  to make APS Journals Accessible to people with
  print disabilities, those who are sight impaired
  or dyslexic.

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Wrap up

• Different deliverables based on publisher
  provided content can provide a sustainable
  revenue stream with a focus on science
• Reusable content saves re-inventing a production
  process
• Guarantees consistency of information

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Thanks

• Bob Kelly
• Director Journal Information Systems
• The American Physical Society
• rakelly_at_aps.org