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Rethinking Academic Publications: Developing an Open-Source-Framework for a Multi-Layer Narrative in Online Publishing

Aufsätze in Sammelwerken 2017

Marcel Hebing, Larissa Wunderlich, Julia Ebert

In: xCoAx 2017 — LISBON : Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Lisbon: xCoAx 2017
S. 30-36

Abstract

The internet has fundamentally changed the way researchers work and collaborate, but has had less impact on the way they publish their results. In this pa-per, we ask how scientific reports should be designed with the internet as the primary distribution channel in mind. We propose a concept for a multi-layerdesign, which is capable of including both interactive elements and a comprehensive data-layer. For the implementation, we suggest working with an output-independent format and a modular compilerto generate various output formats, most of all, HTMLand PDF. The HTML-version utilizes modern web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This enables us, for example, to include interactive vi-sualizations, raw datasets, or syntax files directly into a publication. The redesign also raises more general questions of how articles are used to facilitate scientific communication, concerning, for example,the way we cite previous work or the concept of scientific authorship in general.

Topics: Digitalization



Keywords: Scientific Publications, Multi-layered Publishing, Cross-media Publications, Data Visualisation, Open Science, Sience Communication, Knowledge Access, Knowledge Design, Usability, Technical Interoperability

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