Robust metadata in multiple environments
We live in a time of wondrous technologies, but plain old academic articles remain hamstrung by clinging to the affordances of the paper media of the past. The affordances offered by digital media are not present in any depth; there is simply copy and paste and blue hyperlinks. The Visual-Meta approach makes even basic PDF documents contain rich metadata, which allows them to be active rather than passive knowledge components, and this can be done in any media in which the document can be render
doi
10.1145/3511095.3536360
name
Robust metadata in multiple environments
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acm-html
license
© 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
summary
We live in a time of wondrous technologies, but plain old academic articles remain hamstrung by clinging to the affordances of the paper media of the past. The affordances offered by digital media are not present in any depth; there is simply copy and paste and blue hyperlinks. The Visual-Meta approach makes even basic PDF documents contain rich metadata, which allows them to be active rather than passive knowledge components, and this can be done in any media in which the document can be render
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full_text
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displayAuthor
Frode Hegland
displayPublishTime
2022-06-28
source_attribution
ACM Hypertext 2022 proceedings HTML; complete text imported under ACM confirmed authorization. The terminal Visual-Meta appendix in the companion PDF is publisher metadata and excluded from the scholarly article body.