Re: Publication of scientific research

On 4/29/13 4:21 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> On 04/29/2013 10:06 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> On 4/29/13 3:23 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>>> On 04/29/2013 09:05 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>>> On 4/29/13 1:29 PM, Andrea Splendiani wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> ok. Let's see if we can offer xhtml+RDFa as an additional format, and
>>>>> see how people react. I'll spread the idea a bit.
>>>>
>>>> Why stop at xhtml+RDFa when you also have:
>>>>
>>>> 1. html+microdata
>>>> 2. html+turtle -- where you use <script/> for embedding Turtle.
>>>>
>>>> Note,  picking winners (overtly or covertly) is always a shortcut to
>>>> politically induced inertia. It's best to do the complete opposite 
>>>> which
>>>> has the net effect of demonstrating the innate dexterity of the RDF.
>>>
>>> Sure, why not. We can do all of that. Not the challenge.
>>>
>>> Will you get the ISWC organizers to accept *HTML*?
>>
>> If I had such influence, of course :-)
>>
>>> That's what I would love to hear.
>>
>> You heard it now.
>>
>>> The rest is really details. We can have 20 different machine readable
>>> versions of the document if we want. Lets have 1 that's acceptable to
>>> get things rolling!
>>
>> Yes, but why do you think xhtml+rdfa is the one? My point is that we
>> don't know "the one", because that shouldn't matter in a world of URIs
>> and RDF based Linked Data :-)
>
> You are right!
>
> I was proposing (X)HTML(+RDFa) because that's arguably most common and 
> simple enough to carry forward. 

I doubt it is. I even doubt its broad use.

> By having the accompanying CSS which follows the widely used 
> presentations, it is fairly on an equal footing with the currently 
> dominant format. It keeps reviewers happy since the "papers" are 
> fairly consistent.
>
> If we are willing to hack around getting structured data in and out of 
> PDF, I'm sure we can run circles around that via HTML+Whatever. 

I would hope so, and that's vital.

> I just didn't want us to get lost in those possibilities and missing 
> the main mark :)

So you have negate the inadvertent introduction of new hurdles :-)

>
> -Sarven
>


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