sTeX+ - a System for Flexible Formalization of Linked Data

TL;DR

sTeX+ is an enhanced semantic LaTeX system designed for flexible formalization of linked data, enabling high-quality documents and semantic web integration through a modular, participatory approach.

Contribution

The paper introduces sTeX+ as an upgraded, modular version of sTeX, with a complete tool chain for semantic document production and Linked Data integration.

Findings

Successful formalization of modular vocabularies and relations

Generation of semantic XML/OMDoc documents for web use

Preservation of structural annotations for semantic retrieval

Abstract

We present the sTeX+ system, a user-driven advancement of sTeX - a semantic extension of LaTeX that allows for producing high-quality PDF documents for (proof)reading and printing, as well as semantic XML/OMDoc documents for the Web or further processing. Originally sTeX had been created as an invasive, semantic frontend for authoring XML documents. Here, we used sTeX in a Software Engineering case study as a formalization tool. In order to deal with modular pre-semantic vocabularies and relations, we upgraded it to sTeX+ in a participatory design process. We present a tool chain that starts with an sTeX+ editor and ultimately serves the generated documents as XHTML+RDFa Linked Data via an OMDoc-enabled, versioned XML database. In the final output, all structural annotations are preserved in order to enable semantic information retrieval services.