Re: Cost and access (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

On 7 Oct 2014, at 16:20, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>>
 wrote:

"Gray, Alasdair" <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk<mailto:A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>> writes:

On 7 Oct 2014, at 15:31, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk><mailto:phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>>
wrote:

"Gray, Alasdair" <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk<mailto:A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk><mailto:A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>> writes:
This is true. So, if the reason that ESWC and ISWC only accept papers in
PDF is because we need LNCS for tenure and that they will only take PDF,
it would be good to have a public statement about this.

I think PDF is only at the submission stage. For camera ready the source file
(s) - latex or word - are required.

Again, I'd like to know for sure.

For ISWC this year, it was certainly the case that I needed to submit the
latex for the camera ready version.

This presumably is for Springer/conference organisers to be able to get all
the appropriate metadata that they add for indexing.


Sorry, I meant, I'd love to know for sure where the restriction on PDF
comes from. Could we change it to allow HTML tomorrow and who would
complain.

The limitation is not Easychair. They allow you to have all of the following file formats

        [audio/video]   extension       file type
                pdf     PDF
                ps      postscript
                doc     Word document
                docx    Word open XML document
                odt     Open Document format
                txt     plain text
                zip     zip
                jpg     JPEG
                tar     tarball
                tgz     gzipped tarball
                gz      gzipped file
                html    HTML
                xls     Excel file
                tex     LaTeX file
                ppt     PowerPoint presentation
                pptx    Microsoft PowerPoint open XML document
        ✔       mp3     MP3 audio file
        ✔       mp4     MP4 audio file
        ✔       wav     WAVE audio file
        ✔       avi     Audio video interleave file
        ✔       mpg     MPEG video file
        ✔       mov     Apple QuickTime Movie
        ✔       wmv     Windows media video file
                nb      Mathematica notebook
                m       Mathematica package
                mx      Mathematica binary package
                cdf     Computable Document format file



So it would seem it is just convention.

Alasdair

We have seen some people already (Peter!), but I'd like to know where
the limiting factor is.

Phil

Alasdair J G Gray
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