{"id":595,"date":"2014-07-04T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/emorgan\/?p=595"},"modified":"2014-07-04T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:36:11","slug":"reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/emorgan\/2014\/07\/reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Eric Reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI have resurrected an application\/system of files used to archive and disseminate things (mostly articles) I’ve been reading. I call it What’s Eric Reading?<\/em> From the original About page<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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\nI have been having fun recently indexing PDF files.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor the pasts six months or so I have been keeping the articles I’ve read in a pile, and I was rather amazed at the size of the pile. It was about a foot tall. When I read these articles I “actively” read them — meaning, I write, scribble, highlight, and annotate the text with my own special notation denoting names, keywords, definitions, citations, quotations, list items, examples, etc. This active reading process: 1) makes for better comprehension on my part, and 2) makes the articles easier to review and pick out the ideas I thought were salient. Being the librarian I am, I thought it might be cool (“kewl”) to make the articles into a collection. Thus, the beginnings of Highlights & Annotations: A Value-Added Reading List.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe techno-weenie process for creating and maintaining the content is something this community might find interesting:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Print article and read it actively.<\/li>\n
  2. Convert the printed article into a PDF file — complete with embedded OCR — with my handy-dandy ScanSnap scanner.<\/li>\n
  3. Use MyLibrary to create metadata (author, title, date published, date read, note, keywords, facet\/term combinations, local and remote URLs, etc.) describing the article.<\/li>\n
  4. Save the PDF to my file system.<\/li>\n
  5. Use pdttotext to extract the OCRed text from the PDF and index it along with the MyLibrary metadata using Solr.<\/li>\n
  6. Provide a searchable\/browsable user interface to the collection through a mod_perl module.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nSoftware is never done, and if it were then it would be called hardware. Accordingly, I know there are some things I need to do before I can truely deem the system version 1.0. At the same time my excitment is overflowing and I thought I’d share some geekdom with my fellow hackers.\n<\/p>\n

    \nFun with PDF files and open source software.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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