[…] medicine alone, we see things ranging from EBSCO’s DynaMed to Wolter-Kluwers’ OvidMD to Elsevier’s ClinicalKey — semantics, focused repositories, and workflow solutions are being pursued with vigor, major investments, and big ideas. Similar fronts are opening in chemistry and engineering, […]
[…] a uniform manner. Products that offer a superior user interface, superior mechanisms of information discovery, or superior integration with user workflows will be perceived as more valuable than less able products, even if those competitive products have content of similar […]
[…] content didn’t remix with other content on a daily basis. The path forward in one of synthesis, finding paths into workflows and attention zones, and aligning with an audience. A house divided cannot stand, but both sides will surely sink […]
[…] the first gentle pressure of change as pre-processing routines check references, do initial styling, and introduce basic formatting. Full XML workflows push this even further. And if editorial decision-making is truly fair and unbiased, it’s certainly amenable to being replicated […]
[…] digital solutions, the obvious gap between the researcher and the publisher is even greater. How to create an end-to-end XML workflow? Should we develop our own software platform in house or work with one of the growing number of vendors? […]
[…] its speed without qualification: Results published FAST PLoS ONE couples efficient and objective peer review with a streamlined electronic production workflow. This claim is asserted elsewhere, with promises of “Fast publication times” and the like. But is PLoS ONE delivering? […]
[…] offering, and even the most polished provider of textbook-as-interactive game may seek efficiencies through automated interfaces and a crisply designed workflow. What I have yet to hear from any of these new and proposed offerings is an accurate description of […]
[…] device for less than $200). First came digital typesetting, then digital layout and design, and now we have full digital workflows, from authors submitting manuscripts electronically to peer-review systems that are entirely built on software to publishing systems that rely […]
[…] libraries, whether the accomplishment is the creation of a popular new service, a successful reorganization, the redesign of an important workflow, or even the elimination of a task formerly considered essential. Such presentations and articles are commonly referred to as […]
[…] (e.g., enhanced ebooks); Part Two lists the items he thinks should be at the top of the list (e.g., stem-to-stern workflow reorganization). It’s a good list (both parts), which I recommend to everyone. I know Linn professionally, and was struck […]
[…] the take up of the iPhone changed all that. The experience was so good that smartphones went from a niche/ workflow/business task oriented product, to mass user/future of the Internet overnight. And Steve Jobs and Apple discovered the truth in […]
[…] and settle around service contracts and content rental users would stop being researchers and start being fully informed participants in workflow and process and in order to make this happen, those who had formerly fought to the death about content […]
[…] with an editorial impulse. Although much talk about publishing today is about technical matters and such things as “integrating the workflow,” no publisher ever started out by focusing on production or process engineering. Publishers begin by asserting what kind of […]
[…] first phase draws to a close, expect to see more and more integration of social tools into the traditional science workflow rather than attempts to make networking an end unto itself. (article updated 4-30-11 to remove incorrect statement that CiteULike […]
[…] the legacy operations that derived from print. The wormhole program, precisely because it is born-digital, will include a complete XML workflow, digital interfaces for authors and editors, digital sales and marketing, digital everything. Over time, this newly evolved infrastructure will […]