- From: Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 11:08:33 +0200
- To: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Cc: "Pablo N. Mendes" <pablomendes@gmail.com>, Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>, Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote: > If a SW/LD "computer scientist" "researcher" can manage to deal with LaTeX, > would it be presumptuous to say that they can probably manage HTML? > > If a non-computer scientist can get a Web page up or use an existing bloging > software/service to publish some information, do you think that the average > SW/LD will be able to cope with that? Or are we asking for too much from the > SW/LD researcher here? You're again comparing two different technologies that are used for different things! HTML works great for the Web because it's lightweight. Latex works great for papers that need to end up in a physical journal because it has better facilities for that. Imagine a Latex person coming to you asking "why doesn't the Web community embrace Latex as a format for rendering web pages". HTML can't and won't work for everything. So let's not presume it will and let's find solutions such as Latex RDF formats or even trying to embed RDF statements in PDF documents to me seems like a sensible idea. RDF can be expressed in Turtle, JSON-LD, HTML (RDFa), XML (RDF/XML)... adding PDF or Latex to the group seems like a logical thing to do.
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