Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

On 10/1/14 1:10 PM, Laura Dawson wrote:
> What about EPUB, which is xHTML and has support for Schema.org markup? It
> also provides for fixed-layout.

Laura,

As long as it reflects what we are requesting of others, in regards to 
Linked Open Data publication, it's all good :-)

Do you have a sample link?

Kingsley
>
> On 10/1/14, 12:55 PM, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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