Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

+1 to Sarven's proposal. 

We have to start 'at home' with improving publication process & output.  Quite frankly, if the experts in linked data don't lead by example and show the benefits, how / why will conference organizers & publishers change how they do things.  That said, we have to show how more robust data capture benefits their business model *and* helps researchers [because they can collaborate more effectively, grant funding goes further & is more effective, etc].

Over time, it will have broader implications in the larger research community and beyond.  That is my 2 cents.

Cheers,

Bernadette Hyland
CEO, 3 Round Stones, Inc.

http://3roundstones.com
http://about.me/bernadettehyland 


On Oct 1, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> 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)?
> 
> Thanks again for considering.
> 
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i
>