David Huynh wrote:
I think that even small things can make the SW effort feel more
welcoming, and more open, toward people with less interest in data
modeling and data linking. For example, the ISWC conferences have been
using a page layout format of one column 4.5" wide (wasting 4" on a
letter-size page). Most screenshots are landscape-oriented. So people
who want to show screenshots in ISWC papers either have to resize their
screenshots to unreadable sizes, or crop them. If there's an opportunity
to adopt a two column layout, allowing screenshots to stretch across the
columns, that would make someone like me a little happier publishing UI
work to ISWC. :-)
Maybe folks on these lists who are interested in publishing UI work to
ISWC can vote if they want a more accommodating page layout...
ISWC uses Springer to publish its proceedings as an LNCS volume,
which is done in a book sized format. This determines the formatting
requirements. This is unlikely to change as long as ISWC continues to
use Springer. Springer has been very accommodating in allowing ISWC
to simultaneously make the papers available online with free access,
which another publisher (e.g., ACM or IEEE) would probably not agree
to. So I think that it is unlikely to change anytime soon.
Tim
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