Hi Simon,
Thanks for your reply.
I have used xmpincl and recently stumbled upon pdfx [1] for producing
PDF/A compliant files (which require some XMP).
I started work on extending pdfx's functionality to support some more
URIs and embedded reference lists [2], but reading through some of the
XMP and PDF/A specifications I got a bit put off by the limitations
imposed on the RDF that can be included as XMP in PDF/A and started
wondering if it's actually possible.
I wanted to say I had found the Citation Typing Ontology, but then saw
it is part of SPAR.
Ben
[1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfx/
[2] https://github.com/bencomp/pdfx-ext
On 12/6/'12 12:15 AM, Simon Spero wrote:
You can include XMP packets in pdftex files using the \pdfcatalog
primitive ; there are a couple of macro packages that add a little bit of a
wrapper:
xmpincl basically just wraps and inserts the contents of an external
RDF+XML file as the value of /Metadata .
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xmpincl/
There is no standard ontology for citation data; you might look at
BIBO http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ or
SPAR - http://purl.org/spar/
Simon
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Ben Companjen<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I have been wondering whether it is possible to put a bibliography (list
of references in a journal article, for example) in an XMP packet in a PDF
document. Having read about efforts to get the references from a document
by parsing text, I thought it might make sense (and be possible) to put a
machine-readable version in the document.
I haven't found anyone who had done this (yet), so I started wondering
why. Is it too obvious to write about? Or is it impossible?
Eventually I'd like to have it automatically created at the same time
BibTeX creates the 'normal' bibliography for my pdfLaTeX document. And if
the PDF/A standard allows it, have it in such a way that it complies to the
long-term archival PDF standard. It appears, however, that PDF/A-1 allows
the XMP description of the document itself to have only one author [1],
which makes me doubt the use of PDF/A in general.
If I manage to get it working, could it be a topic of interest for the
Code4Lib Journal?
Regards,
Ben
[1] www.pdfa.org/wp-content/**uploads/2011/08/tn0003_**
metadata_in_pdfa-1_2008-03-**182.pdf<http://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tn0003_metadata_in_pdfa-1_2008-03-182.pdf>
