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Workshop at the Open Repositories ‘09 conference

There is limited space available, but if you are going to be at the Open Repositories '09 conference, you may want to register for and attend the workshop we are presenting on Thursday, May 21st, from 1 to 6 PM. The workshop will be a one-stop shop encompasing

Upcoming Events and Updates

There are two conferences coming up in May, where we will be presenting updates on the Article Authoring Add-in and other projects: May 18-21 - Open Repositories 09 in Atlanta, GA. May 27-29 - Society for Scholarly Publishing 2009 Annual Meeting in Baltimore,

Ontology Add-in for Word 2007 - Technology Preview

We just posted a Technology Preview build of an add-in that enables adding semantic knowledge to documents by associating words in the document to ontology terms. This add-in can be installed from CodePlex , and the source is available here under the

Upcoming Scholarly Publishing Events in London - See You There

A few of the Microsoft people involved in Scholarly Publishing (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and myself) will be in London next week (December 2nd through 5th) to attend the Online Information 2008 conference, as well as present at two events from the International

Peer Review in the Age of Software as a Service

The Microsoft eJournal Service is a good example of a growing trend towards delivering functionality through the Software as a Service approach. This web based service enables scientists and researchers to more easily engage in the collaborative process

Release Candidate for Article Authoring Add-in Now Available for Download

We are happy to announce that this morning we posted the Release Candidate build of the Article Authoring Add-in. Over the past couple of months, the community has provided very useful feedback based on the Beta 1 release. We feel that we have refined

Introducing the Alpha Preview of the Microsoft eJournal Service

Update We would like to highlight the collaboration and input from commercial and non-commercial entities in relation to the Microsoft eJournal Service and the Article Authoring add-in projects: "I am pleased that Microsoft is taking innovative steps

Feedback on your usage model

Participation in the Beta program so far has been fantastic and we have been able to incorporate most of the feedback and requests that you have sent in so far. It is evident that this community is very hands-on and enthusiastic about the authoring and

Beta of Microsoft’s Article Authoring Add-in Now Available Broadly for Download

At the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing in Boston, Microsoft announced the wide availability of the Beta 1 release of the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007. In addition to enabling Word users to open and save documents using the National Library of Medicine’s XML Journal Publishing format, used for the authoring of scientific articles, the Beta 1 release adds support for the NCBI Book format, used for in authoring book chapters for digital books.

See You at SSP Next Week?

I, along with folks from the Word team and Technical Computing Initiative/Microsoft Research, will be in Boston next week, participating in a session on Wednesday morning ( Seminar 1 ). Also on Friday, I will be hosting a informal discussion table during

May Tidbits

A few interesting news: Aries Systems now supports Word 2007 docx files The Times Reader will start a Beta of their Mac version Last, I wanted to highlight that we will be attending (and presenting) at the upcoming Society for Scholarly Publishing meeting

The Power of Structured Content

As we get comments and questions from you about the add-in, or have opportunities to discuss the experience and underlying technology face-to-face (as at the HighWire Publisher's Meeting last week), it is interesting how frequently the topic of structured

The Increasing Relevance of XML in the Overall Content Lifecycle

I had a conversation with Jon Udell on the add-in, and the greater relevance of XML in the publishing lifecycle, which he just posted on the channel 10 site . Jon has a great approach to this new series of postings , where he provides different modalities

Publishing Workflow – Math content as paths vs glyphs in generated PDF files

In this post we take a look at the solution for a problem with the configuration of a Windows Server 2003, which resulted in PDF files generated from Word using paths instead of glyphs for Math content.

Multi Discipline Relevance

Geoff makes the point that he thinks the NLM dtd is relevant for disciplines outside of Biology and Medicine, such as Humanities and Social Sciences. I agree with his point and hope that with the add-in we will help authors and journals in those other