Re: CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 (LISC2013)

Oh and if you want to see a massive thread on the benefits and upsides to
pdf as a format check out:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/beyond-the-pdf/WskBVfAH9Co

and as always when talking about pdf one most see
Beyond the PDF - The Horror Movie (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jf2PZDmuK4)

Paul


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
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> No offense taken.
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> I'm sympathetic as well in terms of encouraging new forms of publication
> and in particular encouraging machine readable information. I just don't
> think necessarily pdf submissions prevent one from doing all that.
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> so I think we are pretty much all on the same page :-)
> Paul
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> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>wrote:
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>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> No offense intended. It certainly isn't your fault that you can't
>> modernize the academic publishing industry overnight. Nobody expects that.
>>
>> However, I do sympathize with Sarven. It won't change if we can't show
>> the publishers a more compelling way to do there work. That includes
>> economics, not just technology.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dave
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>> On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:52, Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi
>> >
>> > As an organizer of both this workshop and one called the Beyond the PDF
>> force11.org/beyondthepdf2 - I'll respond.
>> >
>> > There's nothing particularly wrong with PDF as a means of encapsulating
>> human readable information so asking for submissions this way seems
>> suitable. (Yes there are downsides to the format and maybe we would should
>> be more liberal in terms of formats). pdf also has facilities for embedding
>> metadata in rdf.
>> >
>> > I would hope that the submissions to the workshop are the text around
>> lots of links to both source code repositories and linked data sources -
>> that's the true test
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> > On Apr 23, 2013, at 23:30, David Wood <david@3roundstones.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:11, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 04/23/2013 08:48 PM, Erp, M.G.J. van wrote:
>> >>>> Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in
>> >>>> Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at
>> >>>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and
>> >>>> submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lisc2013.
>> >>>> Papers should be submitted in PDF format.
>> >>>
>> >>> Linked Science is brought to you by PDF.
>> >>
>> >> Yep. That seems silly for a reason :)
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Dave
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> -Sarven
>> >>
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