Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format

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Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format

• Physicists Take the Lead
• Amsterdam, ACP, 6 November 2008

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Presenters

• Emilia Persoon
• Dedicon Project manager RD
• member MathML-in-DAISY Working Group
• Dorine in t Veld
• ViewPlus Coordinator Europe

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Research

• John Gardner
• president and founder of ViewPlus
• member MathML-in-DAISY Working Group
• Robert Kelly
• American Physicist Society

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Dream

• information and educational material
• accessible for everyone
• at the same time
• including math, sciences and graphs

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• Proof-of-principle research project
• Publishing APS journals in a universally
  accessible DAISY format
• Feasible at little cost

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• Video (duration 3 minutes)
• Explanation of the technical process
• Questions
• Live demonstration

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Example Physical Review Letter

• text
• math formulas
• images

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Math formulas

• provided as images
• magnification? ?
• contents accessible? ?
• contents navigable? ?
• searchable? ?
• ...

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Math formulas

• provided as images MathML
• magnification? ? ?
• contents accessible? ? ?
• contents navigable? ? ?
• searchable? ? ?

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Figures

• Much information
• text
• several graphs
• numbers

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Accessible version of

• Journal Physical Review Letters
• Format DAISY with MathML and SVG

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What is DAISY?

• DAISYDigital Accessible Information SYstem
• Digital format for multimedia representation of
  information
• text, audio, images, formulas, ...
• navigation and search functionality
• synchronisation of highlighted text and audio
• adjust settings to individuals needs

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• DAISY
• and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
• and MathML
• FOR
• text and/or audio
• and images
• and formulas

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Accessible version of Phys.Rev.Letters

• American Physicists Society (APS) provided
• APS XML MathML PostScript figures
• ViewPlus transformed this into
• DAISY MathML SVG
• by means of XSLT, DAISY Pipeline, DesignScience
  software, OCR, ...

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Result

• accessible text, accessible formulas and
  accessible figures
• playable in suitable DAISY player
• easily transformed into other formats,e.g. XHTML
  MathML SVG ? IE with plug-ins
• plug-ins in demo
• MathPlayer for formulas
• IVEO SVG Viewer for figures

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• Enriched SVG figures can contain metadata, data
  set? extra functionality benefits all users

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In the next future

• ViewPlus and partners
• develop software and procedures necessary for
  scholarly publishers to produce accessible
  journals in DAISY

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Dream ? In the future

• Information and educational material
• accessible for everyone
• at the same time
• including math, sciences and graphs

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Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format
Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format

• Physicists Take the Lead

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Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format
Publishing Scholarly Journals in Universal Format

• Physicists Take the Lead

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More info at ACP conference

• Do it yourself live demo of accessible images
  (Dorine)
• Navigation within math expressions demo (Emilia)

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More information and contact details

• ViewPlus and the APS project www.viewplus.comwww
  .viewplus.com/company/news/2061john.gardner_at_viewp
  lus.com
• Dediconwww.dedicon.nl (English version
  available)epersoon_at_dedicon.nl
• MathML in DAISYwww.daisy.org/projects/mathml