Hi David, No offense taken.
I'm sympathetic as well in terms of encouraging new forms of publication and in particular encouraging machine readable information. I just don't think necessarily pdf submissions prevent one from doing all that. so I think we are pretty much all on the same page :-) Paul On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:19 PM, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > No offense intended. It certainly isn't your fault that you can't > modernize the academic publishing industry overnight. Nobody expects that. > > However, I do sympathize with Sarven. It won't change if we can't show the > publishers a more compelling way to do there work. That includes economics, > not just technology. > > Regards, > Dave > > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:52, Paul Groth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > As an organizer of both this workshop and one called the Beyond the PDF > force11.org/beyondthepdf2 - I'll respond. > > > > There's nothing particularly wrong with PDF as a means of encapsulating > human readable information so asking for submissions this way seems > suitable. (Yes there are downsides to the format and maybe we would should > be more liberal in terms of formats). pdf also has facilities for embedding > metadata in rdf. > > > > I would hope that the submissions to the workshop are the text around > lots of links to both source code repositories and linked data sources - > that's the true test > > > > Paul > > > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 23:30, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:11, Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On 04/23/2013 08:48 PM, Erp, M.G.J. van wrote: > >>>> Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in > >>>> Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at > >>>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and > >>>> submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lisc2013. > >>>> Papers should be submitted in PDF format. > >>> > >>> Linked Science is brought to you by PDF. > >> > >> Yep. That seems silly for a reason :) > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dave > >> > >> > >>> > >>> -Sarven > >> >
