- From: Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr>
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:36:18 +0200
- To: Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
- CC: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
On 01/10/2014 21:55, Luca Matteis wrote: > But why is it backwards? We have different formats serving different > purposes. Diversity is healthy. Simply because PDF is not in the Web > stack it doesn't make it Web-unfriendly. In 2013, PDF was mentioned during ODW2013 [0] workshop and I quote part of the final report [1] below regarding PDF: "(...) PDF - often referred to as the format where data goes to die. In the open data world, PDF has a bad name as it is not deemed machine processable. As Adobe's Jim King pointed out in his presentation [2] , this is perhaps unfair. PDF can include structured tables, can carry associated metadata, extractable text and more. It is the way that PDFs are generated - using basic tools that don't support all the features - that renders PDF documents opaque to machine processes." This could be an opportunity to work closer with Adobe's folks to see how web stack can help process data in PDF... Best, Ghislain [0] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/ [1] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/report [2] http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/Role_of_PDF_and_Opendata_final.pdf -- Ghislain Atemezing EURECOM, Multimedia Communications Department Campus SophiaTech 450, route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France. e-mail: auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr & ghislain.atemezing@gmail.com Tel: +33 (0)4 - 9300 8178 Fax: +33 (0)4 - 9000 8200 Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~atemezin Google+:http://google.com/+GhislainATEMEZING Twitter:@gatemezing
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