<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_007_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b1Aa"><h3>Purpose</h3><p>To develop a structured, rich media digital paper authoring tool with an object-based model that enables interactive, playable, and convertible functions.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_008_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b2Aa"><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>We propose Dpaper to organize the content (text, data, rich media, etc.) of dissertation papers as XML and HTML5 files by means of digital objects and digital templates.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_009_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b3Aa"><h3>Findings</h3><p>Dpaper provides a structured-paper editorial platform for the authors of PhDs to organize research materials and to generate various digital paper objects that are playable and reusable. The PhD papers are represented as Web pages and structured XML files, which are marked with semantic tags.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_010_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b4Aa"><h3>Research limitations</h3><p>The proposed tool only provides access to a limited number of digital objects. For instance, the tool cannot create equations and graphs, and typesetting is not yet flexible compared to MS Word.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_011_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b5Aa"><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>The Dpaper tool is designed to break through the patterns of unstructured content organization of traditional papers, and makes the paper accessible for not only reading but for exploitation as data, where the document can be extractable and reusable. As a result, Dpaper can make the digital publishing of dissertation texts more flexible and efficient, and their data more assessable.</p></sec><sec id="j_jdis.201607_s_012_w2aab2b8c94b1b7b1aab1c15b6Aa"><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>The Dpaper tool solves the challenge of making a paper structured and object-based in the stage of authoring, and has practical values for semantic publishing.</p></sec></abstract>

PurposeTo develop a structured, rich media digital paper authoring tool with an object-based model that enables interactive, playable, and convertible functions.Design/methodology/approachWe propose Dpaper to organize the content (text, data, rich media, etc.) of dissertation papers as XML and HTML5 files by means of digital objects and digital templates.FindingsDpaper provides a structured-paper editorial platform for the authors of PhDs to organize research materials and to generate various digital paper objects that are playable and reusable. The PhD papers are represented as Web pages and structured XML files, which are marked with semantic tags.Research limitationsThe proposed tool only provides access to a limited number of digital objects. For instance, the tool cannot create equations and graphs, and typesetting is not yet flexible compared to MS Word.Practical implicationsThe Dpaper tool is designed to break through the patterns of unstructured content organization of traditional papers, and makes the paper accessible for not only reading but for exploitation as data, where the document can be extractable and reusable. As a result, Dpaper can make the digital publishing of dissertation texts more flexible and efficient, and their data more assessable.Originality/valueThe Dpaper tool solves the challenge of making a paper structured and object-based in the stage of authoring, and has practical values for semantic publishing.

Dpaper: An Authoring Tool for Extractable Digital Papers

University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Journal of Data and Information Science

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PurposeTo develop a structured, rich media digital paper authoring tool with an object-based model that enables interactive, playable, and convertible...

Dpaper: An Authoring Tool for Extractable Digital Papers

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Sep 01, 2017

Page range: 86 - 97

Received: Aug 07, 2015

Accepted: Mar 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20309/jdis.201607

Keywords
Dpaper, Extractable paper, Digital object, Authoring tool

© 2016 Xiaoqiu Le, Chenyu Mao, Yuanbiao He, Changlei Fu, Liyuan Xu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Dpaper: An Authoring Tool for Extractable Digital Papers

Article Category: Research Paper

Published Online: Sep 01, 2017

Page range: 86 - 97

Received: Aug 07, 2015

Accepted: Mar 07, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.20309/jdis.201607

KeywordsDpaper, Extractable paper, Digital object, Authoring tool

© 2016 Xiaoqiu Le, Chenyu Mao, Yuanbiao He, Changlei Fu, Liyuan Xu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Dpaper, Extractable paper, Digital object, Authoring tool