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RESEARCH
For the past 20 years my research has centred around Digital
Documents, both in layout-based (e.g. PostScript, PDF) and in
structure-based (e.g SGML, XML) representations. The interplay of
structure and appearance, and the transformation and manipulation of
digital documents, is of
particular interest. In particular, compound documents containing
more than one document representation enable `standoff
markup’
to be used to cross correlate one representation with another. These
techniques, in conjunction with PDF’s XMP metadata schemas
and the Tagged (Structured) PDF conventions, enable us, for example, to
add value to
PDF files and to make them more accessible (e.g. to visually impaired
users).
Our current work encompasses XML, XSLT, PDF,
SVG, SVG-t (for mobile phones) s-XBL and metadata. Some of this work is
sponsored by Adobe
Systems Inc. and some by Hewlett-Packard UK. Full details
of projects under way in the Document Engineering Laboratory can be
found
here.
Recent Papers
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