Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper

On 2014-10-01 18:12, Fabien Gandon wrote:
> Dear Saven,

Thank your for your response Fabien.

> The scientific articles are presenting scientific achievements in a format that is suitable for human consumption.
> Documents in a portable format remain the best way to do that for a conference today.

I acknowledge the current state of matters for sharing scientific 
knowledge. However, the concern was whether ESWC was willing to promote 
Web native technologies for sharing knowledge, as opposed to solely 
insisting on Adobe's PDF, a desktop native technology.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Web "took off" not because of PDF, 
but due to plain old simple HTML. You know just as well that HTML was 
intended for scientific knowledge sharing at large scale, for human as 
well as machine consumption.

> However:
> - all the metadata of the conference are published as linked data e.g.
>    http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2014/html

This is great. But, don't you think that we can and ought to do better 
than just metadata?

> - authors are encouraged to publish, the datasets and algorithms they use in their research on the Web following its standards.

I think we all know too well that this is something left as optional 
that very few follow-up. There is no reproducibility "police" in SW/LD 
venues. Simply put, we can't honestly reproduce the research because all 
of the important atomic components that are discussed in the papers 
e.g., from hypothesis, variables, to conclusions, are not precisely 
identified or easily discoverable. Most of the time, one has to hunt 
down the authors for that information. IMHO, this severely limits 
scientific progress on Web Science.

Will you compromise on the submission such that the submissions can be 
in PDF and/or in HTML(+RDFa)?

Thanks again for considering.

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