Comments on: How to make downloading a PDF as easy as ripping an iTunes Song /2006/05/20/how-to-make-downloading-a-pdf-as-easy-as-ripping-an-itunes-song/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » A Greased Up Platypus for Anthrosource-Google Synergy /2006/05/20/how-to-make-downloading-a-pdf-as-easy-as-ripping-an-itunes-song/comment-page-1/#comment-10940 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:36:17 +0000 /?p=483#comment-10940 […] Because I want my metadata, I prefer links to the citation page. So, in order to ensure that all the Google results consistently link to the citation page, I’ve whipped up a Greasemonkey script using the greasemonkey-for-dummies tool Platypus. […]

]]> By: Thomas Sutton /2006/05/20/how-to-make-downloading-a-pdf-as-easy-as-ripping-an-itunes-song/comment-page-1/#comment-8047 Sun, 21 May 2006 03:20:46 +0000 /?p=483#comment-8047 Greg Restall has described how he makes his papers available through iTunes. Also note that the PDF format does provide support for simple metadata (title, author, a number of date fields, etc.) but most people do not make use of it. If the supported fields are not enough, XMP can be used to encode pretty much every piece of metadata imaginable for a range of formats, including PDF.

I think that part of the problem with PDF meta-data is that so much of academia uses software like Word which embeds nonsense metadata (e.g: the filename and account name as ‘title’ and ‘author’); or generate their PDFs with methods that strip metadata (via PS or DVI for example).

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