- From: Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 20:27:15 -0700
- To: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
> As such, it is hard to publish a paper on this > at any of the main venues (ISWC / ESWC / …). > This discourages working on such themes. > > Hence, I see much talent and time going to > incremental research, which is easy to evaluate well, > but not necessarily as ground-breaking. Yes! I could not agree more. On the other hand, this is all about finding the right balance as we also do not want to have tons of 'ideas' papers without any substantial content or proof of concept. I remember that there was an ISWC session some years ago that tried to introduce such a 'bold ideas' track. Krzysztof On 07/06/2016 09:38 AM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: > Hi, > > This is a very important question for our community, > given that smart agents once were an important theme. > Actually, the main difference we could bring with the SemWeb > is that our clients could be decentralized > and actually run on the client side, in contrast to others. > > One of the main problems I see is how our community > (now particularly thinking about the scientific subgroup) > receives submissions of novel work. > We have evolved into an extremely quantitative-oriented view, > where anything that can be measured with numbers > is largely favored over anything that cannot. > > Given that the smart agents / bots field is quite new, > we don't know the right evaluation metrics yet. > As such, it is hard to publish a paper on this > at any of the main venues (ISWC / ESWC / …). > This discourages working on such themes. > > Hence, I see much talent and time going to > incremental research, which is easy to evaluate well, > but not necessarily as ground-breaking. > More than a decade of SemWeb research > has mostly brought us intelligent servers, > but not yet the intelligent clients we wanted. > > So perhaps we should phrase the question more broadly: > how can we as a community be more open > to novel and disruptive technologies? > > Best, > > Ruben -- Krzysztof Janowicz Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
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