Re: Announcement: Volume 1, Issue 1 of TGDK published

Hi Sarven,

On 2023-12-19 19:38, Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> On 2023-12-19 22:59, Aidan Hogan wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We are very pleased to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 1 
>> of Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK): a new Diamond Open 
>> Access journal that does not charge fees to authors or readers. This 
>> is made possible through the support of SWSA, and the low fees charged 
>> by Dagstuhl Publishing (the publishers of the journal).
>>
>> Volume 1, Issue 1 of TGDK is available here:
>>
>> https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/issue/TGDK-volume-1-issue-1
> 
> 
> Aidan, this is a great step. I appreciate the documentation on the 
> "goals of the journal". The initial contributions to the journal looks 
> interesting.

Agreed, thank you!

> I suspect that when you saw my name in the reply, you already had a 
> response in mind ;) What I'd like to know is the usual (as this is 
> always a good status check of the research community, at least in the 
> context of SemWeb/WebSci/CompSci:

I had expected the question, and knew what it would be when I saw that 
you replied. :)

> Will the journal accept contributions to Graph Data and Knowledge in 
> documents formats that are human- and machine-readable, where 
> significant units of information (as deemed by its authors) is 
> structured and available as a "graph" (think e.g., HTML+RDFa)?

At the moment, we accept only PDFs compiled with LaTeX for the official 
production process, but

* all meta-data associated with publications are published under CC0;

* we are making a push for structured data: we require ORCID ids, DOIs 
for publications and citations, etc.;

* authors hold the copyright of their own works under CC-BY 4.0, so 
there are no limitations on authors publishing, for example, HTML+RDFa 
versions of their papers in their own web space, and if there's a 
critical mass of such papers, we could look into various ways to 
"systematise" this (one such way, already enabled, is to link to related 
versions of the paper from the official publication);

* we are open to explore innovations regarding the publication process 
as best serve the community (of course the final publication details are 
down to Dagstuhl Publishing, but they too are open to innovations).

> What's the recommended way to query for particular knowledge that will 
> be accumulated in this journal?

This is on our radar, and some EB members are already looking into a
project along these lines. Also, we would like to push meta-data from 
the journal into open collections of scholarly knowledge. For example, 
the journal is indexed on DBLP [1], and thus meta-data should be 
query-able (hopefully soon) via:

https://sparql.dblp.org/

I just checked and I believe that the TGDK data are not indexed in the 
endpoint yet, but I assume that soon one could query data relating to 
the journal there using Semantic Web standards.

> Again, congrats on the launch!

Thank you, and I second those congrats to all involved! Like you say, 
this is a step on the journey. More developments will follow.

Best,
Aidan

[1] https://dblp.org/db/journals/tgdk/tgdk1.html

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

Received on Wednesday, 20 December 2023 03:33:13 UTC