Re: Call for papers - DaMaLOS 2025

On 2025-01-23 13:57, LJC wrote:
>     DaMaLOS 2025 - 5th Workshop on Metadata and Research (objects)
>     Management for Linked Open Science
>
>https://zbmed.github.io/damalos/



This workshop seems exciting!

Is there any chance that submissions and final publications could be 
required to use a format that better aligns with the architecture of the 
Web?

For example, while the workshop strongly emphasises the FAIR manifesto 
and "Linked" Open Science, past and expected publications are in PDF 
format, lacking deep links to significant content (see also 
https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#Universality2 ) as well as 
richer structural elements that enable machine-readable access.

And so, if FAIR is of significance, the approach taken by this workshop 
(and the resulting publications) clearly fails to conform to the FAIR 
principles.

I presume the authors consider various aspects of their findings to be 
"significant" yet there is no way for consumers to directly link to, 
process, or systematically discover these specific units of information 
using web-standard solutions that facilitate structured interoperability.

Would you agree that this would be an improvement in scientific 
communication, making research easier to share and reference?

I'm asking because I'd like to understand from the organisers of this 
and similar events what it would take on their end to drive meaningful 
change.

-Sarven
https://csarven.ca/#i