Metadata- What it is, why it matters, and how to capture it

Metadata is descriptive information about a manuscript. Typically metadata is any data that describes your book—including title, author name, genre, price, publication date, ISBN, and any other relevant information that helps readers to either find your book or buy your book. Metadata not only improves the visibility of a manuscript, it also aids discoverability by making it search friendly. When content is tagged with appropriate metadata, it can be pushed to the appropriate audience. Its usage can also be tracked and used to promote sales. For example, to figure out and generate product recommendations such as “people who bought this book also bought …”.

This makes it essential for authors and researchers to capture accurate and relevant metadata. But how do they make sure that information is captured where it is really needed?  Automating the capture of metadata at all stages during authoring eliminates the need for manually entering information and ensures necessary metadata is captured in a consistent manner–it’s that simple.

Where Does XEditPro Fit In All This?
XEditPro can help authors and researchers capture metadata during all stages of the manuscript. For starters, you can fill the metadata at the chapter or article level by just double-clicking on the title.

Article Metadata
Chapter Metadata

Image metadata is used to add details either regarding content of the image such as the date and time it was photographed or technical aspects of the image such as size and width of the image.

Image Metadata

XEditPro also enables metadata addition at granular box or sidebar level.

Box Metadata

This makes it possible for everyone to be benefitted: authors, peer researchers, and all of the platforms and tools that support scholarly publishing.

References

https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/records-management-advice-metadata-and-discoverability

https://docs.oracle.com/

https://amazonauthorinsights.com/post/152043707155/use-metadata-to-help-readers-find-your-book

April 12, 2021 Content Authoring Tool, Metadata Management 198 comments

Equation editing with the power of LaTeX and simplicity of WYSIWYG interface
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As a author connected to STEM education research, you must be all too familiar with the effort involved in authoring complex mathematical equations in large documents. If you are looking at new ways to speed up the process, XEditPro is for you. XEditPro lets you add mathematical equations, scientific formulas and expressions to documents with some quick wins in effort reduction and user experience.

XEditPro provisions all symbols and frameworks required for editing and creating equations. You can create complex mathematical formulas built up from various types of components such as arithmetic, subscripts and superscripts, delimiters, operators, ellipses, integrals, matrices, roots , text – the list is exhaustive. XEditPro provides accurate display with backend mathematical markup language MathML 3 support.

When it comes to working with complicated equations, WYSIWYG environment goes a long way. For those unfamiliar with LaTeX, XEditPro allows to key-in complex mathematical formulas with minimal keyboard and mouse clicks. For each basic mathematical construct (fractions, radicals, sums, integrals, matrices etc.) a template is provided containing symbols and various empty slots. Hovering over any symbol will display a tooltip that will tell you about it. Equations can be created by just inserting templates and filling in their slots. Editing equations is equally simple. Just double-clicking an equation will cause the equation to show up in the equation editor which supports edits with ease.

For those who have a working knowledge of LaTeX, the tool allows direct input of LaTeX code with option to generate equation and quickly see LaTeX errors as they occur. Full compilation log is also available for download. The tool supports all standard LaTeX expressions.

The built-in equation editor comes with many more features that help boost your productivity and enhance efficiency including:

  • Support for both Math Type and Equation Editor type equations present in input Word document
  • Automated Equation numbering for Block equations
  • Automatic Conversion of Equal Align Equations into Matrix format
  • Adjust Math related properties (font size, spacing, alignment, column separator, arrow size, line height etc.)
  • Easily copy or move equations from one location to another
  • Support coloring in equations
  • Support for splitting long equations across pages
  • Equation auto-break feature (when exceeding page width)
  • Supports equal alignment for multi-row equations in tables
  • Ability to convert single column equations to double column in multi-column layout
  • Support for mphantom element
  • Export equation as images

 XEditPro has a rich set of unique features and many templates to make the equation-entering part super easy and requiring minimal effort on your end.  Contact xeditpro@support.com for information on how XEditPro can help you with your authoring needs.

March 19, 2021 Content Authoring Tool, WYSIWYG equation/formula editor No comments yet

Level up your authoring experience with XEditPro

XEditPro offers a start-to-finish authoring platform with all the tools at your fingertips for every stage of your manuscript. This makes a world of difference to not only create amazing author experiences but also helps you to to get to value quickly and be more productive. XEditPro also provides the opportunity to connect with other research fellows and practitioners through tools for sharing, reviewing and commenting.
As you embark on your author journey, do it with the following benefits:

Better editing & author experience

  • A growing library of predesigned templates provides a quick way to get started
  • View composed file directly using a deep link and perform content updates using a Word-like interface.
  • Author or update content in the editor pane and preview the corresponding updates in the right pane by just a click of button. Updated XML/PDF/EPUB is available instantaneously after revises.
  • Auto spell and grammar check feature helps to eliminates common error types, inconsistent terminology, contextual spelling errors and grammar mistakes.
  • EPUB and XML viewer is incorporated in XEditPro for checking EPUB and XML version within the editor.
  • Digital Asset Management (DAM) – Allows to embed images in content by uploading images from a central repository (including Metadata entry). Images can be resized, corrected, and manipulated within XEditPro itself. Editors/Authors can monitor and track rights-managed images.
  • Media and interactivity is central to the ethos of any publication and XEditPro’s straightforward insertion and manipulation capabilities comes in very handy
  • Reference creation and validation is made easy with form-like interface. References can be created adhering to styles and inserted automatically based on DOI/PubMed ID input.

Enriching the content delivers significant value

  • Metadata is captured at tables/lists/boxes/paragraph/images levels as its value increases with granularity. Metadata information includes alt text and long description.
  • Metadata is rendered automatically in EPUB.
  • VitalSource (ADA compliant PDF) is also a part of the deliveries.

Choose the authoring platform that’s right for you

XEditPro is the go-to authoring solution for students, faculty and staff as it provides all of the above benefits without the fuss of requiring knowledge of LaTeX.

January 25, 2021 Content Authoring Tool, General, Metadata Management, Reference Management No comments yet

How XEditPro facilitates the process of writing, editing and publishing research articles

XEditPro is a cloud-based SaaS solution pioneered by diacriTech for online collaborative writing of scholarly and technical documents. It is a powerful and highly customizable system integrated with LaTeX for typography and can handle large documents.

Feature Highlights

  • Collaborative editing and auto-proofreading
  • Improved production times with automated page composition
  • Intuitive Word like interface presenting dual view (Manuscript vs. PDF/EPUB/XML)
  • Support for Multilingual and changeable themes
  • Enhanced security – Configurable user roles, IP based restriction and ACL (Access Control Lists)
  • Instant online PDF proofs and EPUB after revises
  • Single-click delivery of Print PDF, Web PDF, HTML, XML, EPUB, and Word at any stage
  • Supports customized workflows to suit individual user’s needs
  • XEditPro’s uses DTD and Schematron validation to ensure adherence to the publisher’s style rules
  • Supports straightforward insertion and manipulation of non-text objects (Image/Table/Equation/Comment/Author Query/Footnotes/Links/Glossary Terms/Assets)
  • In-built equation editor for Math and Scientific formulas (accurate display with backend MathML)
  • Page layout adjustments made effortless with easy access menus
  • Automatic TOC, Glossary, Table of Figures, Table of Authors generation
  • Content enrichment through capture of critical metadata at all stages
  • Comprehensive change tracking feature to review and accept changes
  • Dashboards to monitor manuscript status at a micro level
  • Built-in mail management system for project status communication
  • Advanced Reference creating and editing with information retrieval using DOI and PubMed ID
  • Guaranteed access to content in the long term through efficient archiving

XEditPro has the potential to increase the readership and outreach of research by making the process of creating and publishing papers faster and easier.

December 15, 2020 Content Authoring Tool, General, Scientific Journal Publishing No comments yet