With somewhat depressing regularity I keep cycling back to things I was working on earlier but never quite get to work the way I wanted.
With somewhat depressing regularity I keep cycling back to things I was working on earlier but never quite get to work the way I wanted.
Just some random thoughts on creating searchable PDFs for article extracted from BHL.
Continuing on from my previous post Viewing scientific articles on the iPad: towards a universal article reader, here are some brief notes on the PLoS iPad app that I've previously been critical of. There are two key things to note about this app. The first is that it uses the page turning metaphor. The article is displayed as a PDF, a page at a time, and the user swipes the page to turn it over.
Following on from the previous post, as Howison and Goodrum note, Adobe provides XMP as a way to store metadata in files, such as PDFs. XMP supports RDF and namespaces, which means widely used bibliographic standards such as Dublin Core and PRISM can be embedded in a PDF, so the article doesn't become separated from its metadata. Adobe provides a developers kit under a BSD license.