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Live Mathematics on Authorea A Case for Transparency in Science
  • Deyan Ginev,
  • Alberto Pepe
Deyan Ginev
Jacobs University Bremen

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Alberto Pepe
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Abstract

Authorea is a collaborative platform for writing in research and education, with a focus on web-first, high quality scientific documents.

We offer a tour through our integration of technologies that evolve math-rich papers into transparent, active objects. To enumerate, we currently employ Pandoc and LaTeXML (for authoring), MathJax (for math rendering and clipboard), D3.js (data visualization), iPython (computation), Flotchart and Bokeh (interactive plots).

This paper presents the challenges and rewards of integrating active web components for mathematics, while preserving backwards-compatibility with classic publishing formats. We conclude with an outlook to the next-to-come mathematics enhancements on Authorea, and a technology wishlist for the coming year.

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An “active” version of this paper, demonstrating the discussed features can be found at \cite{live-math}.