Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

My library will not know this. So, they will ask me to submit a PDF (oh
dear) of the final paper to our eprints archive. Extra work, as I said.


John Domingue <john.domingue@open.ac.uk> writes:

> As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the
> risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if they
> are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA
> published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a
> pretty unattractive area to do research in.
>
>
> for both ISWC and ESWC the PDFs are freely available e.g. see [1]
>
> John
>
> [1] http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/accepted-papers
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> On 2 Oct 2014, at 12:23, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca<mailto:info@csarven.ca>> writes:
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> On 2014-10-01 13:36, Mauro Dragoni wrote:
> Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be
> formatted according to the guidelines for LNCS authors. Papers must be
> submitted in PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format) format.
>
> As I understand it, there is a disconnect between the submission format and
> what ESWC wishes to achieve or encourage [1].
>
> Can someone please elaborate on how forcing researchers to use PDF to share
> their publicly funded knowledge instead of SW/LD technologies and tools better
> fulfills [1], or perhaps even contributes towards the Semantic Web "vision"?
>
> I would like to better discover and use SW research knowledge. ESWC
> encouraging and promoting PDF for knowledge sharing sets an unnecessary limit
> on discovery and use.
>
> Will you consider encouraging the use of Semantic Web / Linked Data
> technologies for Extended "Semantic Web" Conference paper submissions?
>
>
> Additionally, submission is to a closed access publisher, requiring us
> to sign our copyright away in return for, well, nothing.
>
> As well as being irritating, UK academics submitting to ESWC run the
> risk that their papers will not be open to REF submission; even if they
> are, we have to go to additional efforts to ensure they are green OA
> published. This is also true of ISWC which makes the semantic web a
> pretty unattractive area to do research in.
>
> Can we dump both Springer and PDF please?
>
> Phil
>
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