Return of the Son of Automated Publishing: A Free, Modular

Solution for Academic Typesetting

PKP XML Project Update 2014

Alex Garnett

Scholarly Communication in 2014:Many innovative journals & services...

...but they’re all mum on process

• You’re a small publisher, you’ve got your journal software setup, you’ve worked out indexing ... But how do you get from authors’ Word submissions to HTML without a huge time investment?

• Even modern publishers like River Valley use a lot of manual effort to get to XML before their automated workflows.

Meanwhile, in PKP World

• Lemon8-XML – developed c. 2007– Semi-supervised conversion to NLM 2 XML– Orphaned since 2009-10, still requested on

forums!

• Grant obtained from Stanford MediaX Publish-on-Demand (Alex G & John Willinsky) in late 2012 to start a new XML initiative

(Re)introducing ...

Word/compatible document input

• HTML...• PDF...• National Library of Medicine JATS XML...

> OUTPUT!

• (some of you may have heard this last year, when officially announced at PKP 2013)

Fully open source

• Modular solution linking several open solutions to article parsing and rendering– ParsCit, wkhtmltopdf, LibreOffice, Pandoc & more

• Core parsing engine “meTypeset” developed in partnership with Open Library of Humanities

Progress & Plans

• Since this time last year, we’ve primarily:– Developed an open source core parsing engine– Rewrote and modularized the parsing stack– Created an OJS plugin for using the service

• Going forward:– Continue to improve the core parsing engine– Improve support for PDF parsing through

partnership with CERMINE in Poland– Add more workflow options to OJS implementation

Questions?

• Test our service, set it up locally, get in touch!

• @axfelix• https://github.com/pkp/xmlps• http://pkp-udev.lib.sfu.ca