HCLSIG/SWANSIOC/Actions/RhetoricalStructure/meetings/20091214

Rhetorical Document Structure Group HCLS SIG W3C, Phone Meeting December 14 2009

Attendees: Tudor Groza (TG), Paolo Ciccarese (PC), Keith Gutfreund (KG), Anita de Waard (AdW - chair + scribe), Alexandre Passant (AP)

Overview
- developed as a LaTEX stylesheet
- markup the paper based on 3 sections: Background, Contribution and Discussion
Background
- Introduction, context, etc
Contribution
- general term for Methods and results
- all kinds of sections talking about own work
Discussion
- comparing own work to existing work
Annotation
- DC terms on creator, title, subject
Core sentences
- main sentences of the paper
- would replace somehow the abstract -> towards the structured digital abstract
Entities
- references for example
- triples that link sentences (or discourse elements) to external items (maybe via relations)

Tudor: update the Introduction of the working group
Anita: up a single document in biology - and add abcde tags (and make suggestions for more fine-grained tags) + make a table which we will discuss
Tim: update use case (including some links) with the major classes of publications; look at existing DTDs:
- NLM DTD: [2]
- Elsevier journal DTD: [3]
- Highwire DTD: [4]
- Biomed central DTD: [5]
Keith: markup and/or test the tools on documents looking at the automated tools (Anita will send him the test documents).