From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:09:21 +0100 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. 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. The developer of Utopia is computer scientist Steve Pettifer, currently based at the University of Manchester. An interview with Steve Pettifer can be read here: http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/interview-with-steve-pettifer-computer.html