software and services for scholar-led approaches to open access
Zotfile is a Zotero plugin to manage your attachments: automatically rename, move, and attach PDFs (or other files) to Zotero items, sync PDFs from your Zotero library to your (mobile) PDF reader (e.g. an iPad, Android tablet, etc.) and extract annotations from PDF files.
Electric Book is a Jekyll-based tool for producing print PDF, digital PDF, EPUB, website, and app versions of books from a single markdown, YAML, and HTML-based content source. It was developed by consultancy and service provider Electric Book Works.
CaSSius is a tool to create beautiful paginated PDF documents from NLM/JATS. Under the hood, v0.2 of CaSSius uses the pagination polyfill from pagedjs. It is intended to be part of XML-first/XML-in workflows for scholarly communications but may have alternative uses.
GROBID – GeneRation Of BIbliographic Data.
GROBID is a machine learning library for extracting, parsing and re-structuring raw documents such as PDF into structured XML/TEI encoded documents with a particular focus on technical and scientific publications.
The following functionalities are available:
https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid
https://grobid.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
http://cloud.science-miner.com/grobid/
Mähr, Moritz. (2018). Typademic, collaborative academic publishing. 10.3929/ethz-b-000311815. How humanities scholars collaborate today?
Most humanities scholars use e-mail and Word documents (with track changes). This generally leads to comically colored documents, funny file names, mislabeled images, time-consuming text merges, and awful-looking layouts.
How humanities scholars should collaborate!
With the simple Markdown text format and Git version control software, you will
– focus on the writing process (type setting and text production are strictly separated)
– separately edit text and data (figures, tables, etc.)
– divide tasks, define roles and track progress
– work simultaneously on a common project (online and offline)
Typademic
If you want to self-publish, use Typademic to turn Markdown text, images and Bibtex references into professionally typed articles, reports or books (PDF). Choose from different templates, hundreds of fonts or design with LaTeX according to your own wishes.
Typademic is an open source web-based graphical user interface for Pandoc, LaTeX and Google Fonts developed and maintained by Moritz Mähr.
https://github.com/maehr/typademic
The universal markup converter
Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can convert from
Pandoc can also produce PDF output via LaTeX, Groff ms, or HTML.
Pandoc’s enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for tables, definition lists, metadata blocks, footnotes, citations, math, and much more. See the User’s Manual below under Pandoc’s Markdown.
Pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document (an abstract syntax tree or AST), and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer. Users can also run custom pandoc filters to modify the intermediate AST (see the documentation for filters and lua filters).
Because pandoc’s intermediate representation of a document is less expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but not formatting details such as margin size. And some document elements, such as complex tables, may not fit into pandoc’s simple document model. While conversions from pandoc’s Markdown to all formats aspire to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than pandoc’s Markdown can be expected to be lossy.