- From: Daniel Schwabe <dschwabe@inf.puc-rio.br>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:17:39 -0300
- To: Rob Warren <warren@muninn-project.org>
- Cc: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord), public-lod community <public-lod@w3.org>
On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:11 - 25/04/13, Rob Warren <warren@muninn-project.org> wrote: > > On 25-Apr-13, at 10:41 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: >> Scientists would rather eat their dogs than give up their favoured >> editing environments. > > And chew off their own (or their RA's) foot as well. > > Most conference submission / reviewing software already asks for the basic meta-data boilerplate to help the reviewing process (authors, title, affiliation, etc...) and this is manually entered before the paper is ready. > > Why don't we generate the meta-data directly from this process and not bother with the hand editing of anything? It would not be a stretch to get people to submit their citations file (Bibtex, RIS, etc...) along with the paper at camera ready and script the conversion to something semantic web friendly? FYI, one of the most used such services, EasyChair, charges to produce XML dumps with this data - you don't get it in the free version. I'm not sure about the others, but last I checked, unless you want to run the service yourself, others don't provide it either. Cheers D
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