Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

html5 has so-called "semantic tags", like <header>, <section>.



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diogo patrão



On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:01 PM, <john.nj.davies@bt.com> wrote:

> " Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?"
> Because it is a mark-up language (albeit largely syntactic) which makes it
> much more amenable to machine processing?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com]
> Sent: 03 October 2014 21:15
> To: Diogo FC Patrao
> Cc: Phillip Lord; semantic-web@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org
> Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)
>
>
>
> On 10/03/2014 10:25 AM, Diogo FC Patrao wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> > <pfpschneider@gmail.com <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers
> can
> >     correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be
> viewed.
> >     How would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the
> reviewers
> >     could not view portions of it?  At least with PDF there is a
> reasonably
> >     good chance that every paper can be correctly viewed by all its
> reviewers,
> >     even if they have to print it out.  I don't think that the same
> claim can
> >     be made for HTML-based systems.
> >
> >
> >
> > The majority of journals I'm familiar with mandates a certain format
> > for
> > submission: font size, figure format, etc. So, in a HTML format
> > submission, there should be rules as well, a standard CSS and the
> > right elements and classes. Not different from getting a word(c) or
> latex template.
>
> This might help.  However, someone has to do this, and ensure that the
> result is generally viewable.
> >
> >
> >     Web conference vitally use the web in their reviewing and publishing
> >     processes.  Doesn't that show their allegiance to the web?  Would
> the use
> >     of HTML make a conference more webby?
> >
> >
> > As someone said, this is leading by example.
>
> Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?
>
> >
> > dfcp
> >
> >
> >
> >     peter
> >
>
>