David Brailsford

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• workRoom C39 Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4205
• fax0115 951 4254
• david.brailsford@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb

Research Summary

For the past 20 years my research has centred around Digital Documents, both in layout-based (e.g. PostScript, PDF) and in structure-based (e.g SGML, XML) representations. The interplay of structure… read more

Recent Publications

• BAGLEY, S. and BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2004. Page Composition Using PPML as a Link Editing Script In: Proceedings of The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2004).
• HARDY, M., BRAILSFORD, D.F. and THOMAS, P., 2004. Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2004).
• BAGLEY, S., BRAILSFORD, D.F. and HARDY, M., 2003. Creating Reuable Well Structured PDF as a Sequence of Component Object Graphic COG Elements In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 03).
• PROBETS, S. G. and BRAILSFORD, D. F., 2003. Substituting outline fonts for bitmap fonts in archived PDF files Software Practice and Experience. VOL 33(ISSU 9), 885-899

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Current Research

For the past 20 years my research has centred around Digital Documents, both in layout-based (e.g. PostScript, PDF) and in structure-based (e.g SGML, XML) representations. The interplay of structure and appearance, and the transformation and manipulation of digital documents, is of particular interest. In particular, compound documents containing more than one document representation enable `standoff markup' to be used to cross correlate one representation with another. These techniques, in conjunction with PDF's XMP metadata schemas and the Tagged (Structured) PDF conventions, enable us, for example, to add value to PDF files and to make them more accessible (e.g. to visually impaired users). Our current work encompasses XML, XSLT, PDF, SVG, SVG-t (for mobile phones) s-XBL and metadata. Some of this work is sponsored by Adobe Systems Inc. and some by Hewlett-Packard UK.

• BAGLEY, S. and BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2004. Page Composition Using PPML as a Link Editing Script In: Proceedings of The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2004).
• HARDY, M., BRAILSFORD, D.F. and THOMAS, P., 2004. Creating Structured PDF Files Using XML Templates In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2004).
• BAGLEY, S., BRAILSFORD, D.F. and HARDY, M., 2003. Creating Reuable Well Structured PDF as a Sequence of Component Object Graphic COG Elements In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 03).
• PROBETS, S. G. and BRAILSFORD, D. F., 2003. Substituting outline fonts for bitmap fonts in archived PDF files Software Practice and Experience. VOL 33(ISSU 9), 885-899
• MONG, J. and BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2003. Some Experiments in Using SVG as the Rendering Model for Structured and Graphically Complex Web Mate In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 03).
• BRAILSFORD, D.F. and HARDY, M., 2002. Mapping and Displaying Structural Transformations Between XML and PDF In: 11th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
• CHAPMAN, C. and BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2001. Navigating a Corpus of Journal Papers Using Handles In: Electronic Publishing 2001.
• PROBETS, S.G., MONG, J., EVANS, D.R. and BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2001. Vector Graphics: From PostScript and Flash to SVG In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng'01).
• BRAILSFORD, D.F., 2000. Separable Hyperstructure and Delayed Link Binding ACM Computing Surveys.
• BENFORD, S.D., TAYLOR, I.M., BRAILSFORD, D.F., KOLEVA-HOPKIN, B., CRAVEN, M.P., FRASER, M., REYNARD, G.T. and GREENHALGH, C.M., 1999. Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web ACM Computing Surveys. 31(4es), Article 25