Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

On 10/1/14 12:35 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> On 2014-10-01 18:12, Fabien Gandon wrote:
>> Dear Saven,
>
> Thank your for your response Fabien.
>
>> The scientific articles are presenting scientific achievements in a 
>> format that is suitable for human consumption.
>> Documents in a portable format remain the best way to do that for a 
>> conference today.
>
> I acknowledge the current state of matters for sharing scientific 
> knowledge. However, the concern was whether ESWC was willing to 
> promote Web native technologies for sharing knowledge, as opposed to 
> solely insisting on Adobe's PDF, a desktop native technology.
>
> If my memory serves me correctly, the Web "took off" not because of 
> PDF, but due to plain old simple HTML. You know just as well that HTML 
> was intended for scientific knowledge sharing at large scale, for 
> human as well as machine consumption.
>
>> However:
>> - all the metadata of the conference are published as linked data e.g.
>> http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2014/html
>
> This is great. But, don't you think that we can and ought to do better 
> than just metadata?
>
>> - authors are encouraged to publish, the datasets and algorithms they 
>> use in their research on the Web following its standards.
>
> I think we all know too well that this is something left as optional 
> that very few follow-up. There is no reproducibility "police" in SW/LD 
> venues. Simply put, we can't honestly reproduce the research because 
> all of the important atomic components that are discussed in the 
> papers e.g., from hypothesis, variables, to conclusions, are not 
> precisely identified or easily discoverable. Most of the time, one has 
> to hunt down the authors for that information. IMHO, this severely 
> limits scientific progress on Web Science.
>
> Will you compromise on the submission such that the submissions can be 
> in PDF and/or in HTML(+RDFa)? 

+1

We need to get over this hurdle. We can't expect to be taken seriously 
if we don't wire what we espouse into the fabric of our existence.

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