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

I never claimed it was not social. But as it is often the case, it may be
rooted in or (falsely) justified by technical misinformation.

Sorry for having missed the discussions that addressed these concerns.
Thanks for reiterating, because others may have missed them too. Perhaps we
should go even further in breaking this down to the inattentive list
member. You may get better bang for your buck if you distill the info into
one/two-sentence questions and answers. The past threads you point out may
be a great starting point. By giving pointers to concise and objective FAQs
with examples that remove all doubt about technical issues, even the
busiest PC chair will have no excuses to not accept those submissions.
Others may even feel compelled to encourage them.

I, for one, plan to organize a workshop next year, and would like to
encourage submissions in Webby formats.
 On Oct 1, 2014 2:48 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
>
>