So, following up on my recent posts here on Metadata in PDFs (Strategies, Use Cases, Deployment), I finally came across PDF/A and PDF/X, two ISO standardized subsets of PDF. the former (ISO 19005-1:2005) for archiving and the latter (ISO 15929:2002, ISO 15930-1:2001, etc.) for prepress digital data exchange.
From Ray Denenberg’s post to the SRU Listserv yesterday: Interested to learn if any Crossref publishers are currently implementing SRU.
So, assuming we know the form of the metadata we wish to add to our PDFs (or else to comply with if there is already a set of guidelines, or some industry initiative in effect) how can we realize this?
Only just caught up with this but the PRISM 2.0 draft is now available (since July 12) for public comment. See this posted by Dianne Kennedy: _“Just a note to let you know that PRISM 2.0 has just been posted at www.prismstandard.org . This is the first major revision to PRISM.
The first thing to note is that this demo (the Acrobat plugin) is an application.
Well, this is likely to be a fairly brief post as I’m not aware of many use cases of metadata in PDFs from scholarly publishers. Certainly, I can say for Nature that we haven’t done much in this direction yet although are now beginning to look into this.
Emboldened by my own researches, by the recent handle plugin announcement from CNRI (on which, more in a follow-on post), and by Alexander Griekspoor’s comment to my earlier post, I thought I’d write a more extensive piece about embedding metadata in PDF with a view to the following: Discover what other
Just announced on the handle-info list is a new plugin from CNRI for Acrobat Reader - see here. The announcement says: _“It is intended to demonstrate the utility of embedding a identifying handle in a PDF document.
Well, it all went very quiet for a while but glad to see that the URI Template Internet-Draft has just been republished: _“A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
With these words: Chris Bizer announces this draft How to Publish Linked Data on the Web. It’s a bright and breezy tutorial and useful (to me, anyway) for disclosing a couple of links: Findings of the W3C TAG Linked Data - Design Issues The tutorial is unsurprisingly orthodox in its advocacy for all things HTTP and goes on to say: But this only relates back to Berners-Lee’s piece on Linked Data referenced above in which he says: Hmm.
Seems that there’s life in the old dog yet.