Imagine a network of concepts, each concept naming a combination of words (symbols). Imagine searching for words belonging to that concept through a collection of digital documents containing text.
Then each query corresponds to a path through that network, path which reaches a collection of documents.
Then each document found can, essentially, be represented (as an […]

You may sign the Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results. It is addressed to the European Commission (you have a choice to sign as an individual or on behalf of your organization). Tell your friends about it: this (the access to the research you financed) is one of the services you paid […]

This version managed to convert a couple of hundreds of sample articles from the arxiv-math.
Because those sources vary widely in terms of metadata quality (author, date…etc. records), some of the converted articles look a bit messy. That’s the next Hermes version’s job: to get a bit wiser in terms of recovering the metadata, and in […]

This version managed to convert 160 out of the first 254 from a month of arxiv/math articles, a ratio of 0.63.
The articles drawing diagrams or pictures (e.g. using the xy package or similar) were not convertible by this version of Hermes, and I don’t plan on adding support for them anytime soon.
The rest is fixable […]

Oxford University Press Releases Open Access Results: “Oxford Open, which launched in July 2005, gives authors the option of paying for their research to be made freely available online immediately upon publication in the participating journals”.
First, in my opinion, this is not open-access, I already explained why. Briefly, this model is, in fact, an […]

This release is a step towards handling longtables appropriately (however, the longtable model Hermes will be able to convert has to have the \caption and \label at the beginning of the environment, followed by \\, like this:
\begin{longtable}
\caption{…}
\label{…} \\
the & rest \\
of & it\\
\end{longtable}
This version managed to convert 32 articles out of 48 trials (in the […]

This version comes with a more scalable font handling mechanism, although there still are some (less used) encodings to be added.
Examples of LaTeX articles converted with this version are available here.
Enjoy.

phew, lots of changes in the font handling matter, besides cleaning:
all (well, most of the useful ones, the 7., 8. and 9. maps) the standard named fonts (according to fontname) are now mapped (not tested thoroughly so let me know if you find something wrong); some of the fonts with special names are mapped also […]

I see the web more explicitly split into the machine-friendly and human-friendly layers, whereas in-between an on-the-fly cross-referencing mechanism is in place.
A searching session: a user sets some parameters for a web metric, thus tuning his subjective view of the web landscape (e.g. a metric for strong/weak concept relationship).
After the user gets a landscape as […]

…has been released today.
It’s the result of a fruitful week: I decided to merge some of my previous tests so now Hermes gets the latex floats (figures, tables) mostly ok. Generic environments generate structure too, now.
Next version should have more fonts, should come with a Hermes reference document schema, and should show more examples like […]