Frode Hegland

Biography

Frode Alexander Hegland<span style="font-weight: 400;"> publishes &lsquo;The Future of Text&rsquo; series of annual books and has hosted &lsquo;The Future of Text Symposium&rsquo; for a decade: </span><a href="https://futuretextpublishing.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://futuretextpublishing.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A result has been the &lsquo;Visual-Meta&rsquo; approach to metadata, a robust method of embedding rich metadata in PDF documents, which he developed as his PhD Thesis at The University of Southampton: </span><a href="https://visual-meta.info/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://visual-meta.info</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> He also develops software for macOS, a word processor called Author and a PDF viewer called Reader: </span><a href="https://www.augmentedtext.info/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.augmentedtext.info</span></a>