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

Hmm.  Are these semantic?  All these seem to do is to signal parts of a document.

What I would consider to be semantic would be a way of extracting the 
mathematical content of a document.

peter


On 10/03/2014 02:32 PM, Diogo FC Patrao wrote:
> html5 has so-called "semantic tags", like <header>, <section>.
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> diogo patrão
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> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:01 PM, <john.nj.davies@bt.com
> <mailto:john.nj.davies@bt.com>> wrote:
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>     " 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?
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com
>     <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>]
>     Sent: 03 October 2014 21:15
>     To: Diogo FC Patrao
>     Cc: Phillip Lord; semantic-web@w3.org <mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>;
>     public-lod@w3.org <mailto:public-lod@w3.org>
>     Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)
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>     On 10/03/2014 10:25 AM, Diogo FC Patrao wrote:
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>      > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>      > <pfpschneider@gmail.com <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>
>     <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>      >     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.
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>     This might help.  However, someone has to do this, and ensure that the
>     result is generally viewable.
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>      >     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?
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>      >
>      > As someone said, this is leading by example.
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>     Yes, but what makes HTML better for being webby than PDF?
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>      > dfcp
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>      >     peter
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