- From: Michael Smethurst <michael.smethurst@bbc.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:46:57 +0000
- To: "Gray, Alasdair" <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- CC: "Eric Prud'hommeaux" <eric@w3.org>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 07/10/2014 14:33, "Gray, Alasdair" <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk> wrote: >On 3 Oct 2014 16:06, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> writes: >> >> > Let's work through the requirements and a plausible migration plan. >>We need: >> > >> > 1 persistent storage: it's hard to beat books for a feeling of >>persistence. >> > Contracts with trusted archival institutions can help but we might >>also >> > want some assurances that the protocols and formats will persist as >>well. >> >> In my area, the majority of journals aren't printed; I've thrown away >> conference proceedings the last decade anyway. >> >> Protocols and formats, yes, true a problem. I think in an argument >> between HTML and PDF, then it's hard to see one has the advantage over >> another. My experience is that HTML is easier to extract text from, >> which is always going to be base line. >> >> For what it is worth, there are achiving solutions, including >> archive.org and arxiv.org both of which leap to mind. >> >> >> > 2 impact factor: i have the impression that conventional publishers >>have a >> > bit of a monopoly and and sudden disruption would be hard to >>engineer. How >> > do to get leading researchers to devote their work in some new >>crackpot >> > e-journal to the exclusion of other articles which will earn them more >> > points towards tenure and grants? Perhaps the answer is slowly build >>the >> > impact factor; perhaps it's some sort of revolution in the minds of >> > administrators and funders. >> >> This is true. So, if the reason that ESWC and ISWC only accept papers in >> PDF is because we need LNCS for tenure and that they will only take PDF, >> it would be good to have a public statement about this. >I think PDF is only at the submission stage. For camera ready the source >file (s) - latex or word - are required. >Also in this brave new world, how would the length of a submission be >determined? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/word-count-tool/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/word-count/pnngehidikgomgfjbpffon keimgbpjlh?hl=en https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/word-counter-for-opera/?disp lay=en Michael >Alasdair > >> >> As it stands, the only statement that the semantic web community are >> making is that web formats are too poor for scientific usage. >> >> >> > I work towards a network of actionable data just like the rest of you >>so I >> > don't want to discourage this conversation; I just want to focus it. >> >> Okay. I would like to know who made the decision that HTML is not >> acceptable and why. >> >> Phil >> > > > > >We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join >us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. >Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to > apply. > >Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity >number SC000278. >
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