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Producing an enhanced publication

Dennis Adriaansen Jürgen Hooft

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Problem statementBreure et al. in ‘ Rich Internet

publications: Show what you tell’, 2010. “dedicated tools for construction are

equally important” “the required software is generally not

yet available as a ready-made toolbox” “dedicated tool set is still lacking”

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Problem statementThoma et al. in ‘Interactive publications:

creation and usage’, 2006 “lack of suitable open source tools for

authoring an interactive publication and for reading or using it”

“easy to use tools with wizard-like interfaces would be necessary to encourage widespread use”

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Problem statementVan den Heuvel et al. in ‘The

VeteranTapes: Research corpus, fragment processing tool, and enhanced publications for the e-Humanities’, 2010

“There are clear obstacles for researchers to embrace EPs, extra effort is needed to add research data to a publication”

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Problem statement

Problem is evident

Limits number of EPs

Despite advantages of EPs

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Problem statementThoma et al., 2006 several benefits over normal publications, by

added datasets, photos, video’s animations, etc. reuse the media content for analysis and

presentation and to check the underlying data and possibly derive alternative conclusions

van den Heuvel et al., 2010 Due the link between the publication and the

research data the publication can be much richer than a paper editions permits

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Research questionWhat is the desirable functionality of an authoring tool for enhanced

publications?1. What types of enhanced publications are

available? 2. What tools are currently available for

producing an enhanced publication?3. Are the available tools suitable for the

different types of enhanced publications?

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Current state Verrijkte Publicaties: onderzoeksresultaten in samenhang

(SURFfoundation, 2010) Rich Internet Publications

(Breure et al., 2010) Verkenning van de interesse van wetenschappelijke onderzoekers

in WP1-Verrijkte Publicaties en WP2-Collaboratories(van der Poel, 2007)

Report on Enhanced Publications state-of-the-art(Woutersen et al., 2009)

Interactive publications and the record of science (McMahon, 2010)

Interactive publications: creation and usage (Thoma et al., 2006)

Interactive publications: The document as a research tool (Thoma et al., 2010)

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Current available tools DatapluS: Enhanced Publication Editor ESCAPE Forge: designed to streamline the

process of adding interactive capability to the media objects by providing an easy and intuitive set of procedures, and where possible, through the use of wizards (Thoma et al., 2010)

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Desirable functionalityThoma et al., 2006 Appearance: paginated view as traditional article Page transitions In-page navigation Image browsing Navigating to an embedded/linked media object Native support for interactivity Execute code Transmission Embedding and linking of multimedia/interactive objects Document integrity and structure.

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Hypothesis Current tools are not suitable for

authoring an enhanced publication. Time consuming Lack of functionality Low ease of use

Research method Literature review

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Planning

22-12 Overview types of EPs

22-12 Overview current available tools

05-01 Suitable tools

12-01 Desirable functionality

24-01 Paper submission

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Questions

Questions?