I have tried to read the «Article of the Future» version of Alain Connes, Caterina Consani and Matilde Marcoli’s «Fun with F1,» an adaptation of an article in Journal of Number Theory (180.24). I hardly understood a word, as it requires a lot of schooling in mathematics. I can comment somewhat on the hypertext aspcets, however.
The paper offers three differenc abstracts: In addition to the ordinary abstract from the paper as it was printed, the online verson also has a «research highlights» in the form of bullet points, as well as a «video abstract». The video abstract is rather longer than the two others, running for four and a half minutes. It shows one of the authors who explains a short version of the argument in monologue, assisted by a few equations on a blackboard behind him. As can be expected from a print article, it is linear in structure. The main result of the paper is given in one sentence quite early., before the authors provide a detailed and quite long overview of the article with hyperlinks to subsections. The result is effectively a pyramid structure.
In the running text, arguments are structured as definitions, propositisons, proofs, lemmas, etc. All these are listed and can be shown separately in the right column. References are hyperlinked and also appear in the right column, where titles as well as abstracts appear, and pdfs are linked.
As in all articles of the future, a table of contents is always available in the left column, with hyperlinks to all sections and thumbnails of all figures (well, only one in this case). The sections currently visible in the center column are indicated with a rectangle and a different link color in the overview. The online version also has an interactive figure, where the reader can manipulate a slider to input different numbers into a function and see the resulting curve. In the print version, only curves for three numbers were shown, indicating the scale of differences.
Tilbaketråkk: Bioelectronic article of the future | Anders Fagerjord