Re: CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 (LISC2013)

Hi David,

No offense taken.

I'm sympathetic as well in terms of encouraging new forms of publication
and in particular encouraging machine readable information. I just don't
think necessarily pdf submissions prevent one from doing all that.

so I think we are pretty much all on the same page :-)
Paul





On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> No offense intended. It certainly isn't your fault that you can't
> modernize the academic publishing industry overnight. Nobody expects that.
>
> However, I do sympathize with Sarven. It won't change if we can't show the
> publishers a more compelling way to do there work. That includes economics,
> not just technology.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:52, Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > As an organizer of both this workshop and one called the Beyond the PDF
> force11.org/beyondthepdf2 - I'll respond.
> >
> > There's nothing particularly wrong with PDF as a means of encapsulating
> human readable information so asking for submissions this way seems
> suitable. (Yes there are downsides to the format and maybe we would should
> be more liberal in terms of formats). pdf also has facilities for embedding
> metadata in rdf.
> >
> > I would hope that the submissions to the workshop are the text around
> lots of links to both source code repositories and linked data sources -
> that's the true test
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Apr 23, 2013, at 23:30, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:11, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 04/23/2013 08:48 PM, Erp, M.G.J. van wrote:
> >>>> Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in
> >>>> Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at
> >>>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and
> >>>> submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lisc2013.
> >>>> Papers should be submitted in PDF format.
> >>>
> >>> Linked Science is brought to you by PDF.
> >>
> >> Yep. That seems silly for a reason :)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> -Sarven
> >>
>