- From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:19:43 +0200
- To: Ghislain Atemezing <auguste.atemezing@eurecom.fr>, Luca Matteis <lmatteis@gmail.com>
- CC: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <542D18AF.7070904@csarven.ca>
On 2014-10-02 10:36, Ghislain Atemezing wrote: > 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 Thanks for sharing Ghislain. Lets not forget that we have SW/LD supporters that go after public institutions to aim for 5-star Linked Data. Or ask for public funding to support their SW/LD research. Ironic Facts: * Majority of the SW/LD research output is publicly funded * Majority of the SW/LD research venues promote 1-star Linked Data So, yes, we can do a lot of different things and in fact, a lot of people are doing different things to improve open science and communication. The question is, what efforts are the SW/LD research venues making? How are they compromising or improving the state of things? What has changed in recent memory? -Sarven http://csarven.ca/#i
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