Re: Publication of scientific research

On 04/27/2013 02:31 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote:
> I'm involved in the organization of a couple of conferences and workshops.
> You do need a template, as without this it's hard to have homogenous submissions (even for simple things as page, or html equivalent, length).
> Other than this, the main issue I could see is that proceedings may require pdf anyway.
> But we could make a partial step and ask for abstract in xhtml+rdfa, to be included in the online program, and full papers in xthml+RDFa as an optional submission.
> It's a small step, but a first step.
> I'm very short on time, but if there is a template, I can see if the idea finds some interest.
> I have to admit that asking for PDFs sounds a bit retro!

Challenge accepted!

Here is the egg in XHTML+RDFa with CSS for LNCS and ACM SIG:

https://github.com/csarven/linked-research

See live:

http://linked-research.270a.info/

Will you provide the chicken? :D

I got it as close to LNCS template as possible for now. ACM SIG is on 
its way - (change stylesheet from lncs.css to acmsig.css to see current 
state).

I know it is not perfect, however I think it is a decent start. Best 
viewed in Firefox/Chrom(e|ium). Print to paper, or PDF from your browser 
to see alternative views. What do you think?

Now, before some of you pixel-perfectionist folks yell at me, please 
first chillax and create an issue at GitHub. Or better yet, contribute 
with pull requests. It is using Apache License 2.0. But, all feedback is 
most welcome!

I still don't think this is main challenge. We need "go ahead"s from 
conferences, then we can hack up the best templates and stylesheets that 
this universe has ever seen.

-Sarven