Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

It may help to preemptively address concerns here. Does anyone have a
HTML+CSS(+RDFa) template that looks exactly like the LNCS-formatted PDFs?
Can we show that papers using this template:
- look consistent with each other (follow the LNCS typesetting instructions)
- look the same as the PDF counterparts
- look the same in any reader
- look the same on screen and printed
- can be read both online and offline
- have the same or smaller file size
- make it easy to share with others (all in one file?)

Can LaTeX to HTML be achieved easily with this template? Or at least is it
as easy yo write this HTML as it is to write in LaTeX?

I feel like this thread warrants a "manifesto" with a backing github repo
where everybody interested can chip in.
 On Oct 1, 2014 11:47 AM, "Gannon Dick" <gannon_dick@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>  >Founder & CEO
>  >OpenLink Software
>  >Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>  >Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com
>  >Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>  >Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen
>  >Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about
>  >LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
>  >Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
>