Re: Formats and icing (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

Hi All,

I know Latex is the norm in academic circles, but the DITA XML standard is
widely used in industry and gaining traction in publishing.

Colin Maudry ( @CMaudry) has a project for extracting RDF metadata from DITA
content [1].
Seems to be attracting interest from Marklogic and HarperCollins [2] and others
[3].

Cheers,
John

[1] http://purl.org/dita/ditardf-project
[2]  http://files.meetup.com/1645603/meetup-2014-08-12.pptx
[3]
http://de.slideshare.net/TheresaGrotendorst/towards-dynamic-and-smart-content-semantic-technologies-for-adaptive-technical-documentation

> On October 2, 2014 at 12:03 AM Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Greetings.
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> On 2014 Oct 1, at 22:36, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > So forget PDF. Perhaps we can add markup to Latex documents and make
> > them linked data friendly? That would be cool. A Latex RDF
> > serialization :)
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> There exists <http://www.siegfried-handschuh.net/pub/2007/salt_eswc2007.pdf>:
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> > SALT: Semantically Annotated LATEX Tudor Groza Siegfried Handschuh Hak Lae
> > Kim
> >
> > Digital Enterprise Research Institute
> > IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan
> > Galway, Ireland
> > {tudor.groza, siegfried.handschuh, haklae.kim}@deri.org
> >
> > ABSTRACT
> >
> > Machine-understandable data constitutes the basis for the Seman- tic
> > Desktop. We provide in this paper means to author and annotate Semantic
> > Documents on the Desktop. In our approach, the PDF file format is the basis
> > for semantic documents, which store both a document and the related metadata
> > in a single file. To achieve this we provide a framework, SALT that extends
> > the Latex writ- ing environment and supports the creation of metadata for
> > scien- tific publications. SALT lets the scientific author create metadata
> > while putting together the content of a research paper. We discuss some of
> > the requirements one has to meet when developing such an ontology-based
> > writing environment and we describe a usage scenario.
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> That describes a very thorough approach to embedding some semantics within
> LaTeX documents.
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> Yes, 'thorough'; very thorough; verging on the intimidating.
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> I dimly recall that there was a rather more lightweight approach which was
> used for proceedings in ISWC or ESWC -- I remember marking up a LaTeX document
> in something less comprehensive than SALT -- but I can't remember enough to be
> able to re-find it.
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> All the best,
>
> Norman
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>
> --
> Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk
> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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