Microsoft Word and NLM

["Greg Tananbaum" <gtananbaum@gmail.com>]

Microsoft has recently unveiled a new add-in for Word that may be 
of interest to the list.  The add-in helps scholarly authors 
conform to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) DTD by:

- Gathering information about the authors and article content at 
the time the article is written

- Enabling journals to provide authors with templates containing 
the structure for articles, and information for 
self-classification of the articles by the authors

- Enabling access to the authors' and article metadata contained 
in the Word file through the use of the NLM format and OpenXML 
document structure

- Enabling the editorial staff to have access to the article and 
journal metadata directly within Word

- Enabling two-way conversion between Office OpenXML and the NLM 
format

This can potentially assist the authoring, editing, review, 
publication, archiving, and searching of scholarly information. 
More details available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/tc/scholarly-publishing.mspx

(Full disclosure - I consulted with Microsoft on this project.)

Greg Tananbaum
Consulting Services at the Intersection of Technology, Content, & Academia
gtananbaum@gmail.com
http://www.scholarnext.com