Just posted on Nascent a brief account of a presentation I gave recently on OTMI at BioNLP 2007. The post lists some of the feedback I received. We are very interested to get further comments so do feel free to contribute comments either directly to the post, privately to otmi@nature.com, or publicly to otmi-discuss@crossref.org. And then there's always the OTMI wiki available for comment at http://opentextmining.org/.

It is important to note that OTMI is not a universal panacea but rather an attempt at bridging the gap between publisher and researcher. We are attempting to provide a framework to enable scholarly publishers to disclose full text for machine processing purposes without compromising their normal publishing obligations.

(Note: Peter Corbett of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge has posted an account of the BioNLP 2007 workshop here.)