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    • CommentAuthorHeikki Arponen
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012
    Hi. Just wanted to inform everybody about annotum.org, "an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress."

    Anyone can use it write and publish an article in wordpress style and submit it for "review", basically as a blog entry, or even start a complete journal! I'm not sure yet how it will work in practice, but I'll find out. It would be an interesting excercise to set up a test journal. It would probably be best if it runs as a dedicated web page.

    It's very much a work in progress, but seems promising. Please take a look and discuss!

    Suggestion for a journal name: "Journal of non-Elsevier Science" (JNES) (ok I'm joking a bit)
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    • CommentAuthorMarcin Kotowski
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012
    • (edited Feb 13th 2012)
    One thing I find puzzling is why you put any emphasis on "Knol users", since Knol is essentially a dead project AFAIK.

    Plus, is the authoring platform meant to replace LaTeX in any sense? Lines like:

    "“What you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) authoring with rich toolset (equations, figures, tables, citations and references)"

    seem to suggest so, and I'd guess that anything that doesn't integrate smoothly with LaTeX (i.e. current paper writing workflow) is doomed to fail.
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    • CommentAuthorHeikki Arponen
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012
    • (edited Feb 13th 2012)
    OK there seems to be a misunderstanding... I personally have _nothing_ to do with the site. It's a product of "Solvitor LLC" and "Crowd Favorite" and backed by e.g. Google.

    Yes, Knol is being phased out in favor of Annotum, as IMO it deserves to be. There's just a possibility for people to migrate their Knol data into Annotum.

    All formulae in Annotum are typed in LaTeX. It's similar to Wordpress (I think), except that you don't need MathJax etc. to display the equations, it all works out automatically. The WYSIWYG part is just that. I don't know if the users can affect the layout as much as in LaTeX documents, but personally I'm willing to compromise... Writing TeX code is not very pleasant, after all. It's of course all HTML and MML, so importing articles should not be a major problem.

    EDIT: sorry, I meant MathML, not MML
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    • CommentAuthorHeikki Arponen
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012
    • (edited Feb 13th 2012)
    Here's a (very crude) test article: http://heikkiarponen.wordpress.com/article/test-article/

    Writing the article is like writing a Wordpress article, with all the pros and cons. Seemed OK to me, although there certainly is room for improvement. E.g. the equations are just figures. But I'm sure it's improving rapidly!

  5. As I mentioned in the Quick&Easy thread, annotum is especially good when talking to non-mathematicians – it’s an easy to use platform for people not able to use LaTeX.

    Since annotum is open source, you can of course use MathJax should you choose it for a journal. Also, tex4ht is getting better at converting from TeX to html, including mathml.

    In other words, for authors there won’t be a difference, the journal can offer both modern html (including derivatives such as epub) as well as a pdf for printing purposes.

    But again, I see its greatest strength in offering a solution to non-mathematicians.

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    • CommentAuthorHeikki Arponen
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012
    • (edited Feb 13th 2012)
    pkra: Couldn't find anything when I searched for "annotum" in these forums, so I created this post... maybe the search feature is broken?

    Anyway, see for example this thread on Annotum development: http://groups.google.com/group/annotum/browse_thread/thread/fe8934b1781d574d#

    A lot seems to be going on in online publishing...
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    • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
    • CommentTimeFeb 13th 2012

    As a sort-of aside, I’ll just note that:

    1. Wordpress can be made to emit valid MathML.
    2. It is possible to author Wordpress blog posts in LaTeX.

    Technology is easy. It’s the community that’s the hard part to build.

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