Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

What about EPUB, which is xHTML and has support for Schema.org markup? It
also provides for fixed-layout.

On 10/1/14, 12:55 PM, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

>On 10/1/14 12:35 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
>> On 2014-10-01 18:12, Fabien Gandon wrote:
>>> Dear Saven,
>>
>> Thank your for your response Fabien.
>>
>>> The scientific articles are presenting scientific achievements in a
>>> format that is suitable for human consumption.
>>> Documents in a portable format remain the best way to do that for a
>>> conference today.
>>
>> I acknowledge the current state of matters for sharing scientific
>> knowledge. However, the concern was whether ESWC was willing to
>> promote Web native technologies for sharing knowledge, as opposed to
>> solely insisting on Adobe's PDF, a desktop native technology.
>>
>> If my memory serves me correctly, the Web "took off" not because of
>> PDF, but due to plain old simple HTML. You know just as well that HTML
>> was intended for scientific knowledge sharing at large scale, for
>> human as well as machine consumption.
>>
>>> However:
>>> - all the metadata of the conference are published as linked data e.g.
>>> http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2014/html
>>
>> This is great. But, don't you think that we can and ought to do better
>> than just metadata?
>>
>>> - authors are encouraged to publish, the datasets and algorithms they
>>> use in their research on the Web following its standards.
>>
>> I think we all know too well that this is something left as optional
>> that very few follow-up. There is no reproducibility "police" in SW/LD
>> venues. Simply put, we can't honestly reproduce the research because
>> all of the important atomic components that are discussed in the
>> papers e.g., from hypothesis, variables, to conclusions, are not
>> precisely identified or easily discoverable. Most of the time, one has
>> to hunt down the authors for that information. IMHO, this severely
>> limits scientific progress on Web Science.
>>
>> Will you compromise on the submission such that the submissions can be
>> in PDF and/or in HTML(+RDFa)?
>
>+1
>
>We need to get over this hurdle. We can't expect to be taken seriously
>if we don't wire what we espouse into the fabric of our existence.
>
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