Article Disassembly - New Ways to Handle Information in Publications
ACM Computing Classification System (1998): I.7.4. Articles and books – the basic publication units – could be disassembled to semantic building blocks. For scientific journal articles, such blocks include figures and tables, among others. Providing meta-data for figures and tables, and making them accessible per se, opens up new ways of presenting and using scientific information—like producing an image database on certain subjects, based on figures published in different journals....