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

Does ease of processing make something more webby?

If so, LaTeX should be preferred to HTML.

peter


On 10/03/2014 02:01 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.
>>
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>> 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
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>>
>>      peter
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