Re: biotea and jailbreaking the PDF at hack4ac

I'm already signed up for hack4ac. I look forward to meeting you there!

Michelle


@MLBrook




On 27 Jun 2013, at 18:26, Alexander Garcia Castro <alexgarciac@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all, after our jailbreaking the pdf hackathon we are pleased to
> let you know about our participation at the hack4ac meeting in London.
> more information about the meeting can be found at http://hack4ac.com
> 
> You are all welcome to join us in London, we will be very happy if we
> could know and discuss your ideas as to "how to read scholarly
> communication in a different way?"  all u need is just thinking out of
> the box, a pencil
> and a paper where to sketch your ideas (no programing is
> required!!!!). For the hack4ac we are working on:
> 
> BIOTEA, RDFizing PubMed Central in support for the paper as an
> interface to the Web of Data
> 
> 1) BIOTEA (http://biotea.idiginfo.org) provides RDF for the full-text,
> open-access subset of PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is a free full-text
> archive of biomedical literature; currently, it includes 1,679
> journals. We identify semantic entities in the content and structure
> these using the Annotation Ontology. We have the content fully
> immersed within the web of data. BIOTEA is fully compliant with
> Bio2RDF. We want to create a geo map of authors and affiliations. We
> are also interested in new interfaces to scholar documents, in this
> case this specific dataset, how can we deliver new reading
> experiences? how can we facilitate rapid concept based reading of
> scholarly documents? how to best use mash up technology in order to
> build a new reading experience when it comes to scholarly documents?
> We have some prototypes we would like to share and discuss. BTW the
> corresponding paper, http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/4/S1/S5
> 
> 2) Leyla Garcia, Alexander Garcia
> 
> 3) design, Interactive Interfaces, js, Human Interface Interaction,
> creative, imaginative, think out of the box
> 
> 4) a pencil and a piece of paper where u can draft a workflow
> supporting a new experience in reading, searching and retrieving
> documents
> 
> JailBreaking the PDF http://pdfjailbreak.com/home
> 
> 1) Currently, the bulk of peer-reviewed scientific knowledge is locked
> up in PDF documents, which are difficult to get information. We are
> changing this. to change that. We recently had a hackathon at the ESWC
> in Montpellier, France. It was a great experience, we want to share
> the outcomes and challenges and invite u all to join us. How to
> extract meaningful information from PDF? how to transform everything
> PDF into usable data? how to get all citations in usable formats from
> PDFs? how to regain control over our content instead of keep having it
> jailed in PDFs? we want to build a REAL OPEN library of scholarly
> communication where documents are part of the web of data. Our
> technology is applicable to any other domain. We have datasets
> available http://pdfjailbreak.com/datasets,
> 
> 2) Leyla Garcia, Alexander Garcia
> 
> 3) design, Interactive Interfaces, js, JAVA, creative, imaginative,
> think out of the box, any programing language
> 
> 4) a pencil and a piece of paper where u can draft a workflow
> supporting a new experience in archiving and delivering usable data
> from PDFs.
> 
> --
> Alexander Garcia
> http://www.alexandergarcia.name/
> http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgarciac
>

Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 17:50:55 UTC