USING MODERN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO ENRICH THE PRESENTATION OF RESULTS IN SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Abstract

It has been almost two decade since electronic formats entered mainstream in scientific paper publishing. PDF (portable document format) has become without any doubt most used electronic publishing format. Wide adoption of this format offered easy exchange of the information presented conventionally through text and images, which was widely adopted. On the other hand it has been little over a decade since 3D artwork, java script and SWF applications are supported by PDF, but adoption of all of these advanced features is quite low. With technological advancements augmented and virtual reality are becoming useful tools also. Same as in the case of PDF there is the problem, all across the board of scientific fields, of slow adoption of new Information communication technology ICT. This paper aims to explore and present some of the new ICT features that could help improve presentation of scientific results and also to illuminate the reasons they are rarely used in publications.