Re: Publication of scientific research

Thanks Sarven,
Trying to make sure I understand:
So you are saying that conferences should say that it will accept (only?) HTML.
And so the process for paper production for me is to save/export from Microsoft Word as HTML, instead of doing a "print" to PDF, which is what I usually do?
Or do you have some other HTML production system in mind?

I hate PDF with a passion, by the way, but in the socio thingy of being an editor of a proceedings, it can be an enormous pain when people submit HTML that has local links to images, etc., even from MS Word documents.

Cheers

On 24 Apr 2013, at 18:23, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
 wrote:

> On 04/24/2013 05:37 PM, Andrea Splendiani wrote:
>> There two main issues in moving beyond pdf.
>> 
>> One, probably minor, is that there are larger constraints. Some
>> people need their work to be somewhere "understood" by their
>> organization. This is a bit less relevant for conferences than for
>> journals, but still an issue.
>> 
>> The other is that some bit of a research paper can lend to
>> formalization. But there is a lot of variability. In some case you
>> are closer to what web languages can represent. E.g.: a finding in
>> RDF, some algorithm shown in JavaScript,... But what is somebody is
>> publishing a description of an information systems ? It may get so
>> far from a standard way to talk about think that you won't gain much
>> with a structured representation.
>> 
>> pdf + other technologies, when it applies, could be a good idea,
>> though.
> 
> I can't quite make out the core of the issues that you are trying to describe. So, from I understand:
> 
> We could maybe at least give this HTML thing a try. And, later worry about semantic alignments?
> 
> IMHO, there is no compelling reason to research and try PDF + other technologies, when we have HTML+RDF + other technologies already in place and staring right at us.
> 
> -Sarven
>

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