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The Charlesworth Group, UK, has announced a partnership with scientific publisher
Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK,
to incorporate eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata within online PDFs
for the science journal Nature. The move is expected to improve the archiving of new Nature
content and allow easier, more accurate searching for research articles, providing a better
service for users of the nature.com web site. XMP-embedded PDFs are available on nature.com from
the December 18, 2008 issue of Nature onwards.
XMP metadata is now embedded in all new
Nature research articles as they are published. In a collaborative project with NPG, Charlesworth's
development team created a tailored workflow solution to handle the work. The resulting system of
automated batch processing extracts information from XML files and produces standardised,
validated PDF files with the XMP metadata embedded.
Technically, XMP supports the
embedding of metadata within PDF files, providing a standards-based structure for meaningful
information. Article titles, author details, searchable keywords, copyright information and subject matter can all be embedded within the PDF in a format which is not only human-readable but can also be understood by software applications. Since the standard is extensible, users can also add their own custom metadata.
The introduction of this technology is projected to 'futureproof' NPG's PDFs for use in new web applications being developed for the semantic web. Following completion of the project, Charlesworth is claimed to have seen a great level of interest in the potential of XMP from a number of large publishers.
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