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Since the invention of the printing press, scholarly articles have been printed on paper. Many scholars today still print out articles on paper, but this practice currently limits the richness of scholarly communication.
Scientists, in particular, talk with each other using In scientific research, much more than
just words. text is used to commuicate. So-called "figures," which include images, diagrams, graphs, charts, and more, have enriched scholarly articles for hundreds of years. Today, when scientists communicate face-to-face, as in talks or small discussions, these figures are often the focus of
the conversation. In the best
conversations, discussions, scientists have the ability to manipulate the figures, and to access
the underlying data,
in real-time, so as to test out various what-if scenarios, and to explain findings more clearly.
This short article explains--and shows with demonstrations--how scholarly "publications" can morph into long-lasting records of real scientific discourse, enriched with deep data and code linkages, interactive figures, narration, and video.