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

2014-10-08 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-07 15:44, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: Well, I remain totally unconvinced that any current HTML solution is as good as the current PDF setup. Certainly htlatex is not suitable. There may be some way to get tex4ht to do better, but no one has provided a solution. Sarven Capadisli

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

2014-10-08 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Done. The goal of a new paper-preparation and display system should, however, be to be better than what is currently available. Most HTML-based solutions do not exploit the benefits of HTML, strangely enough. Consider, for example, citation links. They generally jump you to the references

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

2014-10-08 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-08 14:10, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: Done. The goal of a new paper-preparation and display system should, however, be to be better than what is currently available. Most HTML-based solutions do not exploit the benefits of HTML, strangely enough. Consider, for example, citation

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

2014-10-08 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: PLOS is an interesting case. The HTML for PLOS articles is relatively readable. However, the HTML that the PLOS setup produces is failing at math, even for articles from August 2014. As well, sometimes when I zoom in or out (so that I

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

2014-10-08 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/08/2014 05:31 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: PLOS is an interesting case. The HTML for PLOS articles is relatively readable. However, the HTML that the PLOS setup produces is failing at math, even for articles from August 2014. As

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

2014-10-08 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: The goal of a new paper-preparation and display system should, however, be to be better than what is currently available. Most HTML-based solutions do not exploit the benefits of HTML, strangely enough. Consider, for example, citation

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

2014-10-08 Thread Luca Matteis
Dear Sarven, I really appreciate the work that you're doing with trying to style an HTML page to look similar to the Latex templates. But there's so many typesetting details that are not available in browsers, which means you're going to do a lot of DOM hacking to be able to produce the same

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

2014-10-08 Thread Phillip Lord
I'm always at a bit of a loss when I read this sort of thing. Kerning, seriously? We can't share scientific content in HTML because of kerning? In practice, web browsers do a perfectly reasonable job of text layout, in real time, and do it in a way that allows easy reflowing. The thing about

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

2014-10-08 Thread Bernadette Hyland
Hi Sarven, Congratulations for kicking off a thread that has received over 150 replies across two W3 lists in a week. That is impressive! This isn't the first time (nor the last) that it has been discussed. The active discussion reaffirms the need to drive a closer dialog between Web

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

2014-10-08 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-08 15:14, Luca Matteis wrote: Dear Sarven, I really appreciate the work that you're doing with trying to style an HTML page to look similar to the Latex templates. But there's so many typesetting details that are not available in browsers, which means you're going to do a lot of DOM

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

2014-10-08 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/8/14 10:18 AM, Sarven Capadisli wrote: On 2014-10-08 15:14, Luca Matteis wrote: Dear Sarven, I really appreciate the work that you're doing with trying to style an HTML page to look similar to the Latex templates. But there's so many typesetting details that are not available in

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

2014-10-08 Thread Simon Spero
On Oct 8, 2014 10:15 AM, Gray, Alasdair a.j.g.g...@hw.ac.uk wrote: Or is that because they want to import it into their own reference management system, e.g. Mendeley, which does not support the HTML version? 1. It is quite easy to embedded metadata in HTML pages in forms designed for accurate

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

2014-10-08 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-08 18:38, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Sarven, Linked Open Data dogfooding, re., issue tracking i.e., a 5-Star Linked Open Data URI that identifies Github issue tracker for Linked Data Research: [1]

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

2014-10-08 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/8/14 3:13 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote: On 2014-10-08 18:38, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Sarven, Linked Open Data dogfooding, re., issue tracking i.e., a 5-Star Linked Open Data URI that identifies Github issue tracker for Linked Data Research: [1]

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

2014-10-07 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com [2014-10-07 00:41+0200] Sorry to jump into this once again but when it comes to typesetting nothing really comes close to Latex/PDF: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120271/alternatives-to-latex - not even HTML/CSS/JavaScript Making a floating model

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

2014-10-07 Thread José Manuel Gómez Pérez
+1 This is precisely one of the main ideas we pursued in Wf4Ever. The paper in whatever format is not enough, you also need to preserve the methods and their implementation, including the workflows and the datasets, not only for validation and reproducibility purpose in the face of

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

2014-10-07 Thread Norman Gray
Kingsley and all, hello. On 2014 Oct 7, at 02:18, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: It's not hard to query PDFs with

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

2014-10-07 Thread Norman Gray
Eric, hello. This is a bit of a side-issue, but... On 2014 Oct 7, at 07:13, Eric Prud'hommeaux e...@w3.org wrote: * Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com [2014-10-07 00:41+0200] Sorry to jump into this once again but when it comes to typesetting nothing really comes close to Latex/PDF:

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

2014-10-07 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/7/14 5:39 AM, Norman Gray wrote: Kingsley and all, hello. On 2014 Oct 7, at 02:18, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
The stack exchange discussion mostly talks about the user side of things. Go back (quite) a few years and using PDF from tex was a pain, pretty much up until pdflatex become the norm. For those who thing that latex is still the best, I do not see that an HTML centric publishing framework

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk writes: This won't dynamically reflow, it's true (and that's a pity), but if I ever get a tablet computer, I doubt I'll be able to resist producing versions in a layout which is targeted at that size of screen. Sure, that's fine. But why not have a version

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

2014-10-07 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-07 11:39, Norman Gray wrote: The original spark to the thread was a lament that SW and LD conferences don't mandate something XMLish for submissions because X(HT)ML is clearly better for... well ... dammit, it's Better. Straw man argument. Please stop that now! I will spell out

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: tex4ht takes the slight strange approach of having an strange and incomprehensible command line, and then lots of scripts which do default options, of which xhmlatex is one. In my installation, they've only put the basic ones into the

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend?

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: So, you believe that there is an excellent set of tools for preparing, reviewing, and reading scientific publishing. Package them up and make them widely available. If they are good, people will use them. Convince those who run

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

2014-10-07 Thread Robert Stevens
What I'd suggest for conference organisers is something like the following: 1. Keep the PDF as the main thing, as it's not going anywhere soon. 3. Also allow submission in some alternative form, including semantic content, and have the conference run a competition for alternative publishing

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
If you mean that published papers have to be in PDF, but that they can optionally have a second format, then I had no problem with this proposal. I also have no problem with encouraging use of other formats. However, this is an added burden on conference organizers. Someone would have to

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/07/2014 05:27 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: So, you believe that there is an excellent set of tools for preparing, reviewing, and reading scientific publishing. Package them up and make them widely available. If they are good, people

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/07/2014 05:23 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/07/2014 05:20 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: tex4ht takes the slight strange approach of having an strange and incomprehensible command line, and then lots of scripts which do default options, of which xhmlatex is one. In my

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

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: tex4ht takes the slight strange approach of having an strange and incomprehensible command line, and then lots of scripts which do default options, of which xhmlatex is one. In my installation, they've only put the basic ones into the

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

2014-10-07 Thread Mark Diggory
Hi John, Kingsley, et al, On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:39 AM, John Erickson olyerick...@gmail.com wrote: This is an incredibly rich and interestingly conversation. I think there are two separate themes: 1. What is required and/or asked-for by the conference organizers... a. ...that is needed for

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Sure, I have lots of papers (none for ESWC, though) that could serve as test cases. peter On 10/07/2014 07:49 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: tex4ht takes the slight strange approach of having an strange and incomprehensible command line, and

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

2014-10-07 Thread Simon Spero
BLUF: This is where information science comes in. Technology must meet the needs of real users. It may be better to generate better Tagged PDFs, and to experiment, using some existing methodology annotation ontologies, with generating auxiliary files of triples. This might require new/changed

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

2014-10-07 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/7/14 1:14 PM, Norman Gray wrote: Sarven, hello. On 2014 Oct 7, at 13:13, Sarven Capadisli i...@csarven.ca wrote: On 2014-10-07 11:39, Norman Gray wrote: The original spark to the thread was a lament that SW and LD conferences don't mandate something XMLish for submissions because

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

2014-10-07 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
PLOS is an interesting case. The HTML for PLOS articles is relatively readable. However, the HTML that the PLOS setup produces is failing at math, even for articles from August 2014. As well, sometimes when I zoom in or out (so that I can see the math better) Firefox stops displaying the

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

2014-10-06 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-06 06:59, Ivan Herman wrote: Of course, I could expect a Web technology related crows to use HTML source editing directly but the experience by Daniel and myself with the World Wide Web conference(!) is that people do not want to do that. (Researchers in, say, Web Search have

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed. How would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the reviewers could not view

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do: write their papers as quickly as possible. They do

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Sarven Capadisli i...@csarven.ca writes: I will bet that if the requirements evolve towards Webby submissions, within 3-5 years time, we'd see a notable change in how we collect, document and mine scientific research in SW. This is not just being hopeful. I believe that if all of the

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 7:43 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: I don't believe that HTML is a good authoring format any more than PDF is. I don't think see this as huge problem. HTML needs to be part of the tool-chain, not all of it. +1 -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder CEO OpenLink Software Company Web:

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello, My apologies if this is a repost (errors were encountered and my last post bounced from the listserv)... On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling.

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Mark Diggory mdigg...@atmire.com wrote: Hello Community, On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Community, On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do:

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

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Houle
Frankly I don't see the reason for the hate on PDF files. I do a lot of reading on a tablet these days because I can take it to the gym or on a walk or in the car. Network reliability is not universal when I leave the house (even if I had a $10 a GB LTE plan) so downloaded PDFs are my document

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 04:15 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed. How would you feel if your paper was rejected

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 04:27 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: [On using htlatex for conferences.] So, as well as providing a LNCS stylesheet, we'd need a htlatex cf.cfg, and one CSS and it's done. Be good to have another CSS for on-screen viewing; LNCS's back of a postage stamp is very poor for that. Phil I

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 10:25 AM, Paul Houle wrote: Frankly I don't see the reason for the hate on PDF files. I do a lot of reading on a tablet these days because I can take it to the gym or on a walk or in the car. Network reliability is not universal when I leave the house (even if I had a $10 a GB LTE

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: However, my point was not about looking good. It was about being able to see the paper in the way that the author intended. Yes, I understand this. It's not something that I consider at all important, which perhaps represents our

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

2014-10-06 Thread Luca Matteis
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Phillip Lord phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk wrote: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? Authors might have adjusted things that way specifically to deliver their message. I think being able to have consistent layouts

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

2014-10-06 Thread John Erickson
This is an incredibly rich and interestingly conversation. I think there are two separate themes: 1. What is required and/or asked-for by the conference organizers... a. ...that is needed for the review process b. ...that is needed to implement value-added services for the conference c. ...that

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: I would be totally astonished if using htlatex as the main way to produce conference papers were as simple as this. I just tried htlatex on my ISWC paper, and the result was, to put it mildly, horrible. (One of my AAAI papers was about

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 08:38 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: I would be totally astonished if using htlatex as the main way to produce conference papers were as simple as this. I just tried htlatex on my ISWC paper, and the result was, to put it mildly,

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 08:29 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: However, my point was not about looking good. It was about being able to see the paper in the way that the author intended. Yes, I understand this. It's not something that I consider at all

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

2014-10-06 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
Dear Peter, please show me how to query PDFs with SPARQL. Then I'll believe there are no benefits of XHTML+RDFa over PDF. Addressing the issue from the reviewer perspective only is too narrow, don't you think? Martynas On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side with mathjax. Well, somehow png files are being produced for some math, which is a failure. Yeah, you have to

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is extremely important. Having different rendering of the paper interfere with the authors' message is

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
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. No, I don't think that viewing this issue from the reviewer perspective is too narrow.

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side with mathjax. Well, somehow png files are being produced for some

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

2014-10-06 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
Following the same logic, we still could have been using paper submissions? All you have to do is to scan them to turn them into PDFs. It's been a while since I was in the university, but wasn't dissemination an important part of science? What about dogfooding after all? Martynas On Mon, Oct

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is extremely important. Having different rendering of the paper

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

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
I would be much more generic here, show me how to query a bunch of PDFs with anything... of course, the answer will go like you can extract the text and do A and the B and then get a relatively decent text depending on A B and C. then someone else will chime in and say and this is just because

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

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
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. in the age of the web of data why should I restrict my search just to metadata? I want the full

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side with

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
I don't think that scanning a printout retains any metadata that was in the electronic source so, no, this would not follow using the same logic. I do agree that dissemination of results is one of the most important parts of the scientific process. The argument here is, I think, what is the

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Sure. So extract the text from the PDF and query that. It also would be nice to have access to the LaTeX sources. What HTML publishing *might* have that is better than the above is to more easily embed some extra information into papers that can be queried. Is this just metadata that could

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
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}

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 10:44 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: Peter F. Patel-Schneider pfpschnei...@gmail.com writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: 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

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

2014-10-06 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? Authors might have adjusted things that way specifically to deliver their message. I think being able to

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 2:19 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote: querying PDFs is NOT simple and requires a lot of work -and usually produces lots of errors. Yes, I believe I indicated that in my response to Peter i.e., it isn't simple or productive. just querying metadata is not enough. Yes, I said

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

2014-10-06 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. On 2014 Oct 6, at 19:19, Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com wrote: querying PDFs is NOT simple and requires a lot of work -and usually produces lots of errors. just querying metadata is not enough. As I said before, I understand the PDF as something that gives me a

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

2014-10-06 Thread Luca Matteis
Sorry to jump into this once again but when it comes to typesetting nothing really comes close to Latex/PDF: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120271/alternatives-to-latex - not even HTML/CSS/JavaScript On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: Greetings.

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Neat. This could be extended to putting a full table of contents into the metadata, and in lots of other ways. The other nice thing about it is that it would be possible to push the same data through a LaTeX to HTML toolchain for those who want HTML output. peter On 10/06/2014 03:18 PM,

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: 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

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mike Bergman
Hi Adobe lurkers, Kingsley has just handed you a valuable means to keep users tied to your technologies: On 10/6/2014 8:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F.

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

2014-10-05 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Paul, On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 06:47:19PM -0500, Paul Tyson wrote: I certainly was not suggesting this. It would indeed be silly to publish large collections of empirical quantitative propositions in RDF. Yes. And describing such collections with RDF on a level above basic metadata is

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

2014-10-05 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 5 Oct 2014, at 11:07, Michael Brunnbauer bru...@netestate.de wrote: ... Basic metadata is good. Publishing datasets with the paper is good. Having typed links in the paper is good. But I would not demand to go further. +1 ++1 - the dataset publishing can include the workflow, tools etc,

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

2014-10-05 Thread Dominic Oldman
...@3roundstones.com Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2014 12:14 PM Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access) Executive summary: 1) Bring up an ePrints repository for “our” conferences, and a myExperiment instance, or equivalents; 2) Start to contribute to the Open Source

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

2014-10-05 Thread Ivan Herman
This is not a direct answer to Daniel, but rather expanding on what he said. Actually, he and I were (and still are) in the same IW3C2 committee, ie, we share the experience; and I was one of those (although the credit really goes to Bob Hopgood, actually, who was pushing that the most) who

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

2014-10-05 Thread Laura Dawson
I think I mentioned previously, Ivan, but perhaps not on this thread - Hugh McGuire has developed a Wordpress tool called PressBooks which allows you to write a book in HTML and export it as an EPUB file. He even supports schema.org markup in a separate plugin. (http://www.pressbooks.com) On

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

2014-10-05 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
metadata, sure. it is a must. BUT good and thought for the web of data. not designed for paper based collections. From my experience it is not so much about representing everything from the paper as triplets. there will be statements that won't be representable, also, such approach may not be

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

2014-10-05 Thread Breslin, John
+1 John http://Bresl.in On 5 Oct 2014, at 15:39, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: This is not a direct answer to Daniel, but rather expanding on what he said. Actually, he and I were (and still are) in the same IW3C2 committee, ie, we share the experience; and I was one of those (although

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

2014-10-05 Thread Ivan Herman
On 05 Oct 2014, at 16:47 , Laura Dawson laura.daw...@bowker.com wrote: I think I mentioned previously, Ivan, but perhaps not on this thread - Hugh McGuire has developed a Wordpress tool called PressBooks which allows you to write a book in HTML and export it as an EPUB file. He even supports

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

2014-10-05 Thread Diogo FC Patrao
] Sent: 03 October 2014 21:15 To: Diogo FC Patrao Cc: Phillip Lord; semantic-...@w3.org mailto:semantic-...@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org mailto:public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access) On 10/03/2014 10:25 AM, Diogo FC Patrao

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

2014-10-05 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Alexander, On 5 Oct 2014, at 15:57, Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com wrote: metadata, sure. it is a must. BUT good and thought for the web of data. not designed for paper based collections. From my experience it is not so much about representing everything from the paper

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

2014-10-05 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Ivan, On 5 Oct 2014, at 16:42, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: On 05 Oct 2014, at 16:47 , Laura Dawson laura.daw...@bowker.com wrote: I think I mentioned previously, Ivan, but perhaps not on this thread - Hugh McGuire has developed a Wordpress tool called PressBooks which allows you

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

2014-10-05 Thread Luca Matteis
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do: write their papers as quickly as possible. They do not want to spend their time going

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

2014-10-05 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/5/14 6:19 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: On 5 Oct 2014, at 11:07, Michael Brunnbauerbru...@netestate.de wrote: ... Basic metadata is good. Publishing datasets with the paper is good. Having typed links in the paper is good. But I would not demand to go further. +1 ++1 - the dataset

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

2014-10-05 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/5/14 9:55 AM, Dominic Oldman wrote: Further to Hugh's comment about the non-techhy world I found this interesting quote on the Web. The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people work together — and not as a technical toy. The

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

2014-10-05 Thread Laura Dawson
Word adds all sorts of horrible tags to things and makes the HTML virtually unrender-able. On 10/5/14, 4:19 PM, Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically savy

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

2014-10-05 Thread Ivan Herman
On 05 Oct 2014, at 22:19 , Luca Matteis lmatt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman i...@w3.org wrote: The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do: write their papers as

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

2014-10-04 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-04 04:14, Daniel Schwabe wrote: As is often the case on the Internet, this discussion gives me a terrible sense of dejá vu. We've had this discussion many times before. Some years back the IW3C2 (the steering committee for the WWW conference series, of which I am part) first tried

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

2014-10-04 Thread Michael Brunnbauer
Hello Paul, On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 04:05:07PM -0500, Paul Tyson wrote: Yes. We are setting the bar too low. The field of knowledge computing will only reach maturity when authors can publish their theses in such a manner that one can programmatically extract the concepts, propositions, and

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

2014-10-04 Thread Hugh Glaser
Executive summary: 1) Bring up an ePrints repository for “our” conferences, and a myExperiment instance, or equivalents; 2) Start to contribute to the Open Source community. Please, please, let’s not build anything ourselves - if we are to do anything, then let’s choose and join suitable

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

2014-10-04 Thread Jürgen Jakobitsch
PDFs are surprisingly flexible and open containers for transporting around Stuff hi, i'm feeling tempted to add something provocative ;-) PDFs are surprisingly mature in disguising all the 'bla bla' and make it look nice... = http://tractatus-online.appspot.com/Tractatus/jonathan/index.html

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

2014-10-04 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/4/14 7:14 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Executive summary: 1) Bring up an ePrints repository for “our” conferences, and a myExperiment instance, or equivalents; 2) Start to contribute to the Open Source community. Please, please, let’s not build anything ourselves - if we are to do anything,

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