Thanks for the Xanadu hint. Indeed I made similar observations as Ted Nelson: We use desktop machines to replicate physical paper on the screen, blatantly ignoring that we can easily break the constraints of paper on a computer. This reminds a bit of Roy Fieldings thesis about REST, where he clearly defined what REST is. Yet, most implementations tagging themselves with REST are just RPC. People seem to look at technological concepts, take out all the good parts, only keep the name and claims, yet doing something different, but still marketing it as innovative and modern.

Manuel

On 2 Nov 2017, at 00:06, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <vonbecmann@gmail.com> wrote:

really nice! ted nelson talks about something like that in his xanadu project.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Manuel Leuenberger <leuenberger@inf.unibe.ch> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I was experimenting in the last few weeks with my take on literature research. For me, the corpus of scientific papers form an interconnected graph, not those plain lists and tables we keep in our bibliographies. So, here is the first prototype that has Google Scholar integration for search, can fetch PDFs from IEEE and ACM, extracts metadata from PDFs - all this results in hyperlinked PDFs!

See a demo here: https://youtu.be/EcK3Pt_WnEw
Also slides from the SCG seminar here: http://scg.unibe.ch/download/softwarecomposition/2017-10-31-Leuenberger-ILE.pdf

I plan on packaging it, so that those who are interested can check it out themselves (help wanted!). Currently, it only works on macOS.

What do you think of my approach? Which use cases should be added?

Cheers,
Manuel

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Bernardo E.C.

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