Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> It's not hard to query PDFs with SPARQL.  All you have to do is 
> extract the metadata from the document and turn it into RDF, if 
> needed. Lots of programs extract and display this metadata already. 

Peter,

Having had 200+ (some-non-rdf-doc} to RDF document transformers built 
under my direct guidance, there are issues with your claim above:

1. The extractors are platform specific -- AWWW is about platform 
agnosticism (I don't want to mandate an OS for experiencing the power of 
Linked Open Data transformers / rdfizers)

2. It isn't solely about metadata  -- we also have raw data inside these 
documents confined to Tables, paragraphs of sentences

3. If querying a PDF was marginally simple, I would be demonstrating 
that using a SPARQL results URL in response to this post :-)

Possible != Simple and Productive.

We want to leverage the productivity and simplicity that AWWW brings to 
data representation, access, interaction, and integration.

-- 
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Kingsley Idehen 
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OpenLink Software
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