LaTeX, metadata, and publishing workflows

TL;DR

This paper presents a new LaTeX style file that simplifies the process of managing publication metadata, aiming to automate and streamline scientific publishing workflows.

Contribution

It introduces a LaTeX style that allows authors to specify metadata once for use throughout the publishing process, reducing manual effort and errors.

Findings

Simplifies metadata management in LaTeX documents

Reduces human effort in publishing workflows

Facilitates automation of publication metadata handling

Abstract

The field of scientific publishing that is served by LaTeX is increasingly dependent on the availability of metadata about publications. We discuss how to use LaTeX classes and BibTeX styles to curate metadata throughout the life cycle of a published article. Our focus is on streamlining and automating much of publishing workflow. We survey the various options and drawbacks of the existing approaches and outline our approach as applied in a new LaTeX style file where we have as main goal to make it easier for authors to specify their metadata only once and use this throughout the entire publishing pipeline. We believe this can help to reduce the cost of publishing, by reducing the amount of human effort required for editing and providing of publication metadata.