- From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:29:42 -0800
- To: Axel Polleres <axel.polleres@deri.org>
- CC: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Axel Polleres wrote: > e.g. pro: ... e.g. W3C specs *do* undergo a quite rigid review cycle, probably more rigid than most scientific publications do! > > I was thinking about this a bit more ... W3C review tends to improve the recs; but some academic reviews have been very very helpful to my research and somehow formed me more. For example, there was a negative review of: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-293.html (crucial for making RDF test cases work) which said it was syntactic and not semantic, which is true enough ... but that comment was well-articulated and made me think about why I thought the paper was important. I changed the top-and-tail and it got accepted next time round. But somehow the review educated me ... more so than most W3C reviews. (Except perhaps some comments from DanC). I had another negative review of my triangles work ... I think this paper: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2000/HPL-2000-72.html that led to several years of work ... But for careful and precise word-smithing, academic review has nothing on a review from a rival WG I guess I was disappointed that my paper on ARP got rejected, for similar reasons to the graph isomorphism paper, and I never got the energy together to argue that it was the important piece of work that I knew it was :) http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-292.html I think those reviewers were just wrong! (but don't we all say that sort of thing) (it's strange that I've gone back 9 or 10 years for all those examples) Jeremy
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