Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles

Abstract

Purpose: this paper introduces the Research Articles in Simplified HTML (or RASH), which is a Web-first format for writing HTML-based scholarly papers; it is accompanied by the RASH Framework, a set of tools for interacting with RASH-based articles. The paper also presents an evaluation that involved authors and reviewers of RASH articles submitted to the SAVE-SD 2015 * and SAVE-SD 2016 † workshops. Design: RASH has been developed aiming to: be easy to learn and use; share scholarly documents (and embedded semantic annotations) through the Web; support its adoption within the existing publishing workflow Findings: the evaluation study confirmed that RASH is ready to be be adopted in workshops, conferences, and journals and can be quickly learnt by researchers who are familiar with HTML.