Re: Call for Linked Research

On 2014-07-28 16:58, Spencer Tom Tafadzwa Chirume wrote:
> Awesome initiative. It would help to have examples to point to for
> reuse. You have this on on GitHub?

Sure. Just to be clear, again: this whole thing is not a technical 
problem we are dealing with. *It would be senseless and a complete waste 
of time to point out that publishing on the Web using Web native 
technologies and tools is successful*. Any discussion on whether Linked 
Data researchers can manage to put a document up on the Web or not is 
insulting to begin with.

So, there are a lot of ways to realize it. There is nothing really new 
here. It can be as simple as making "blog posts" somewhere. Add more 
semantics to the document as you go to identify and capture the 
essentials. It really doesn't matter what the starting point is as long 
as it uses technologies and standards that were designed with the Web in 
mind.

For this particular task, I prefer the HTML+RDFa+CSS route. It has the 
advantage of showing something to human users and having it machine 
friendly at the same time using a single document. Everything that has 
to do with the research "paper" can go in there. It can of course point 
at the resources that it talks about. As for making it look pretty for 
print or "formal" submissions for conferences/workshops, it can be 
styled with CSS. And, that part is already done (waiting for the LD 
researchers to pick it up) for LNCS, ACM, and a thesis like styles:

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

Print view the example URLs. In fact, this:

http://csarven.ca/call-for-linked-research

is in LNCS.


Copy it. Kindly send pull requests.


-Sarven
http://csarven.ca/#i