The Research Articles in Semplified HTML Framework

open source tools for using a well-shaped subset of HTML5 to create and share Web-first scholarly articles
Main citation: Peroni, S., Osborne, F., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Poggi, F., Vitali, F., Motta, E. (2017). Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles. PeerJ Computer Science 3: e132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.132 (also available in RASH)

Main features Bird's-eye view

What you can do

Write

Use RAJE (our native HTML wordprocessor), OpenOffice Writer, Microsoft Word, or any text editor for writing HTML documents compliant with RASH, a well-defined subset of HTML5 elements for writing and sharing scholarly articles on the Web that can be visualised on a browser according to different layouts via CSS+Javascript technologies

Enrich

HTML5 structural elements (section, figure, table, etc.) combined with W3C Digital Publishing roles are used for expressing the basic structures of scholarly articles, while additional semantic annotations can be added by means of RDF and appropriate vocabularies, such as schema.org and the SPAR Ontologies

Convert

Automatically tranform OpenOffice and Microsoft Office documents into RASH documents, and convert RASH documents into LaTeX files compliant with several publisher-related templates (Springer LNCS, ACM ICPS, PeerJ, etc.) by means of a large set of converters available and powered by XSLT 2.0 technologies

The framework

RASH format: a markup language that restricts the use of HTML elements to only 32 elements for writing academic research articles and allows authors to use embedded RDF annotations

Visualisation: CSS files and Javascript scripts have been developed in order to visualise RASH documents according to different layouts

Validation: RASH has been developed as a RelaxNG grammar and each RASH document can be checked against that grammar by means of two validators

Enhancement: the SPAR Xtractor Suite enriches a RASH document by annotating its markup elements with their actual structural semantics defined by entities included in the FRBR-aligned Bibliographic Ontology and the Document Components Ontology

Writing: use RAJE (the RASH wordprocessor) for creating HTML-native scholarly articles or, alternatively, use your favourite editor between Apache OpenOffice and Microsoft Word and follows the appropriate document preparation guidelines available in the Framework

Conversion: use ROCS for converting your RASH article in LaTeX so as to be easily processed by journals, workshops, and conference, or use the various converters ROCS adopts to create your conversion pipeline and thus to convert RASH documents into different LaTeX styles (such as ACM ICPS and Springer LNCS) or to translate ODT and DOCX documents into RASH