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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Utopia Documents is a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature. Developed in 2009, it is a free PDF reader that can connect the static content of scientific articles to the dynamic world of online content.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This week Utopia will be released as an open source project. It will also become the platform for a new crowdsourcing tool called Lazarus. With Lazarus, it is hoped to recover large swathes of the legacy data currently imprisoned in the charts, tables, diagrams and free-text of life science papers published in PDF files. This information will then be made available as an open access database.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The developer of Utopia is computer scientist Steve Pettifer, currently based at the University of Manchester. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An interview with Steve Pettifer can be read here: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/interview-with-steve-pettifer-computer.html">http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/interview-with-steve-pettifer-computer.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>