- From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 04:00:18 -0500
- To: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
- Cc: Tudor Groza <tudor.groza@deri.org>
On Saturday 02 August 2008, Tudor Groza wrote: > We are currently conducting an online survey on reading habits. The > purpose of the survey is to understand some of the usual habits that > researchers have while reading scientific publications and to learn > about the necessary steps to be taken for improving the reading > experience. > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Y8zPpypLt1tC9SeVE8ZyAw_3d_3d Tudor: not all PDFs come with the representative LaTeX used to generate the PDFs in the first place. How is your Semantically Annotated LaTeX (SALT) framework supposed to work in those situations? I admit that I intensely read papers -- I run my dorm room with multiple monitors and multiple internet connections with most of my time crawling through paper repositories and so on. I even have my own implementation of the 'Semantic Search Facilitator' (AutoGoogler) to complement AutoScholar, my automatic paper retriever that uses Google Scholar as a layer to (most) journals. One of my (personal) projects is to do some annotation of crappy PDF papers via overlays and drawable widgets in real time so that I can take notes and do weird things while reading, regardless of whether or not the paper has text or if it's just a big list of images linked together to make up each page. But if SALT has a way to take care of the case where (1) there's no LaTeX and (2) there's no text in the PDF, then I'm all ears. :-) - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap
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