Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

On 10/2/14 8:14 AM, john.nj.davies@bt.com wrote:
>
> "for both ISWC and ESWC the PDFs are freely available e.g. see [1] "
>
> True, though back in 1995 web conferences were making papers freely 
> available in a far more machine-processsable format[2] ;-)
>
> [2] http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Wednesday.html
>

Yep!

Then pass it through a Linked Open Data processor, and you can simply 
follow-your-nose using relation such as sioc:links_to.

[1] 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http/www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Program.html 
-- WWW4 HTML document described in Linked Open Data form

[2] 
http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/sponger_architecture.vsp#how_it_works -- 
basically what happened to the HTML document referenced above.


Kingsley
>
> *From:*John Domingue [mailto:john.domingue@open.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 02 October 2014 12:51
> *To:* Phillip Lord
> *Cc:* Sarven Capadisli; Mauro Dragoni; Fabien Gordon; Marta Sabou; 
> Harald Sack; semantic-web@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper
>
>     As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the
>     risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if
>     they
>     are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA
>     published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a
>     pretty unattractive area to do research in.
>
> for both ISWC and ESWC the PDFs are freely available e.g. see [1]
>
> John
>
> [1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/accepted-papers
>
> On 2 Oct 2014, at 12:23, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk 
> <mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca <mailto:info@csarven.ca>> writes:
>
>
> On 2014-10-01 13:36, Mauro Dragoni wrote:
>
> Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be
> formatted according to the guidelines for LNCS authors. Papers must be
> submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format.
>
>
> As I understand it, there is a disconnect between the submission 
> format and
> what ESWC wishes to achieve or encourage [1].
>
> Can someone please elaborate on how forcing researchers to use PDF to 
> share
> their publicly funded knowledge instead of SW/LD technologies and 
> tools better
> fulfills [1], or perhaps even contributes towards the Semantic Web 
> "vision"?
>
> I would like to better discover and use SW research knowledge. ESWC
> encouraging and promoting PDF for knowledge sharing sets an 
> unnecessary limit
> on discovery and use.
>
> Will you consider encouraging the use of Semantic Web / Linked Data
> technologies for Extended "Semantic Web" Conference paper submissions?
>
>
>
> Additionally, submission is to a closed access publisher, requiring us
> to sign our copyright away in return for, well, nothing.
>
> As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the
> risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if they
> are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA
> published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a
> pretty unattractive area to do research in.
>
> Can we dump both Springer and PDF please?
>
> Phil
>
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