Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

I agree, Laura.

If you are roaming overseas (in any direction) and a friend sends you a chunk of data which may not be accessible publically or wants to send you only Chapter 416 of 837 then it teaches publishers nothing but may keep ISP's in Champagne for years to come.  Yes, London has free WiFi, and yes I'm jealous.  Rural Texas is, um, not quite there yet.  Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) makes it easy to dodge local interconnection problem$ which have nothing whatsoever to do with Linked Data.  There is a practical aspect to this too.

--Gannon
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On Wed, 10/1/14, Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper
 To: "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
 Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2014, 12:10 PM
 
 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.
 >
 >-- 
 >Regards,
 >
 >Kingsley Idehen   
 
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