Infratextual Semantic Markup for Scientific Articles
Metopes is an infrastructure designed to support scientific publishing activities. It provides tools and methods aimed at enriching and structuring scholarly writings to facilitate their dissemination. Our goal is to establish a workflow for scientific publishing by connecting the Stylo editor to Metopes’** publishing pipelines, using their shared standard, TEI Commons, which Stylo already produces.
Issues
While, due to limited digital literacy, .docx remains the most commonly used format among editors, the widespread reliance on a proprietary format raises political, economic, and sustainability concerns regarding the long-term preservation of scholarly texts.
Stylo offers an alternative, and even an appealing compromise, as it provides a user-friendly interface while allowing users to retain control over the structural encoding of their data. However, although this editor can produce the Commons format, it faces the intrinsic limitations of what can be achieved within the Markdown language. Overcoming this constraint is therefore necessary in order to fully integrate with the Metopes environment, meeting the requirements of its schema and enabling the production of maximalist TEI-Commons documents directly from Stylo.
This integration offers an opportunity for broader reflection on writing practices in scientific research and on the importance of semantic structuring of scholarly content. In this perspective, gaining greater control over the formalization of knowledge and its dissemination chains also means reclaiming the process of knowledge creation in all its dimensions.
Technical challenges
Production of rich and structured formats
Interoperability and facilitation of dissemination across platforms
Providing a user-friendly platform while encouraging editors to gain greater control over content structuring
Research activities
Adaptation to the writing practices of editors, particularly with regard to semantic markup.
Reflection on the writing practices of researchers in the Humanities.
Fine-grained modeling of coherent publishing workflows based on the principle of Single Source Publishing.
Study of the issues surrounding the creation of structured bibliographies.
Deliverables
Evolution of Stylo’s metadata to integrate the Commons schema
Enhancements to Stylo’s front-end to enable infratextual semantic markup in Pandoc-flavoured Markdown, aligned with Metopes' requirements
Adaptation of the export pipeline toward TEI Commons Publishing, incorporating the new semantic markup
Implementation of batch export management in Stylo
Enabling the creation of structured bibliographies using Pandoc, directly from Stylo
Implementation of the complete publishing workflow, including validation tools integrated into the writing process
Connecting Stylo to Circé’s API layer (Metopes' transformation service), in particular to allow transparent export to XML for Lodel (OpenEdition’s CMS)
