Re: Technical challenges (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

Sarven, great work! We definitely need more initiatives like yours.

It seems to me a big hindrance to this adoption is more sociologically than
technological.

A quick suggestion - in the current thread we have people saying HTML/RDFa
--> LaTeX - why not the other way around?

Having LaTeX --> HTML/RDFa would bridge the gap. People who are writing
papers can continue writing them in LaTeX, and when they're done, they
simply publish as HTML/RDFa using a LaTeX plug-in?

This helps reduce the activation energy for the shift for more Linked Data
friend formats, as people don't really need to change their writing
practices (at least the LaTeX people), and would immediately generate a
Linked Data ready format.


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:

> On 2014-10-01 22:32, Pablo N. Mendes wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The core of your concerns were addressed over the past few years in
> different ways on this mailing list. When some posed the situation as a
> "technological" problem, I've created some templates and LNCS and ACM
> styles:
>
> https://github.com/csarven/linked-research
>
> Reached out to OCs, supervisors, and authors. They all have a part in
> this. Even wrote "manifestos":
>
> * http://csarven.ca/linked-research
>
> * http://csarven.ca/call-for-linked-research
>
>
> How about we try to solve a different problem? The one that I've posed:
> will SW/LD conferences encourage the community to eat their own dogfood for
> "papers"? We can certainly improve on whatever needs to be improved over
> time. The problem is that, if SW/LD technologies are not even welcome to
> share scientific knowledge at these conferences, it is irrelevant to worry
> about the technological comparisons.
>
> We have a Social Problem 101. Period.
>
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i
>
>


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