Re: A request for conference organizers and promoters

As is well-known, (X)HTML+RDFa as a conference proceeding format has failed
due to links, inability to make conformant (X)HTML, and RDFa being
generally hard to write.

I think ePub (HTML5 profile) will solve these, and when that is more
mature, I'd be happy to switch conferences I'm co-chairing to a ePub or
HTML5 format. Sorry, but not (X)HTML+RDFa for reasons Ivan, Daniel, and
others mentioned.We'd also need good conversion tools between ePub/HTML5
and PDF, but I think those will happen quickly given the market demand
around PDF and ePub, a market demand that does not exist for (X)HTML+RDFa.


(typed as chairing WebSci 2013).


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro <
alexgarciac@gmail.com> wrote:

> This will be an interesting experiment. will authors follow it? will
> there be a clear added value for readers? in any case interesting +1
>
> This is an http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/4/S1/S5 example of using
> linked data in the biomedical domain, in scientific publications.
> although a post mortem experiment, it illustrates the advantages of
> linked data for full content open access journals.
>
> "In this paper, we present our approach to the generation of
> self-describing machine-readable scholarly documents. We understand
> the scientific document as an entry point and interface to the Web of
> Data. We have semantically processed the full-text, open-access subset
> of PubMed Central. Our RDF model and resulting dataset make extensive
> use of existing ontologies and semantic enrichment services"
>
>
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
> wrote:
> > On 5/1/13 8:42 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/01/2013 02:19 PM, Aidan Hogan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Sarven,
> >>>
> >>> We've been following the discussion and saw your request ...
> >>>
> >>> For the COLD 2013 Workshop (@ISWC) [1], aside from requiring PDFs, we
> >>> will also allow submission of optional Web-based materials, such as
> >>> HTML, XHTML+RDFa, Turtle, ontologies, videos, etc. It is up to the
> >>> authors to decide if they want to submit such material and if so, in
> >>> what format or for what purpose. Such material will be hosted and/or
> >>> linked from our workshop web-page (which is a source of RDFa-based
> >>> Linked Data) [1].
> >>>
> >>> We're not sure what kinds of material authors will see fit to submit,
> so
> >>> this is effectively an experiment for us. Let's see if authors decide
> to
> >>> make use of this option and if so, how.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> COLD 2013 Organisers
> >>>
> >>> [1] http://db.uwaterloo.ca/cold2013/
> >>
> >>
> >> This is great news for all!
> >>
> >> Sets an excellent example for others.
> >>
> >> COLD 2013 Organisers, thank you :)
> >>
> >> -Sarven
> >>
> >>
> > This is exactly how it should be done.
> >
> > We have an event about consuming Linked Data that exemplifies the
> concept by
> > also showcasing (via its own home page) the power of Linked Data.
> >
> > Awesome!
> >
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