Hi Chris
I would agree with Steve Hitchcock's comments that there is a need to
deposit original source materials. As you say, for many people this will be
MS Word. However in the future this will increasingly be MS Word 2007 -
which will be in XML.
Problem solved? Probably not :-) but I think there's a need to continue
this debate. Note that one approach I have been looking at recently is
pasting the contents from an MS Word document into a Blog data entry window.
In Wordpress this seems to create a fairly decent HTML page (for simple
documents containing text, images and tables). Perhaps the MS Word to clean
HTML conversion should be a required part of the process for submitting
content to repositories?
Brian
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Brian Kelly
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Keene [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 December 2006 12:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: Brian Kelly
> Subject: Re: PLoS business models, global village
>
> Brian Kelly wrote:
> > Rather than "we should continue making PDFs open access
> with all
> > our energy" I would argue that we should ensure that
> papers are made
> > available in open formats (such XHTML) wherever possible,
> and regard
> > PDFs as a tainted compromise (although the ISO PDF-A format can be
> > useful as a preservation standard).
>
> I'm not here to agree or disagree... but
>
> As most Unis want authors to deposit themselves...
>
> And most authors (researchers) will write their article in MS Word...
>
> The easy way for a non-technical author to produce an html
> document will be the 'Save as web page' in Word itself.
>
> So...
> We will be responsible for thousands of important articles
> available only in MS Word 'special' html. Could we really
> live we ourselves after this?
>
> It makes wince thinking about it. :)
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
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> University of Sussex Library
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