It's always been done that way. Over time, I have been getting more and more annoyed with journal submission processes, when I realise how easy it could be.
Phil Andrea Splendiani <[email protected]> writes: > on the other hand... > many journals offer an extremely tedious submission and formatting process. > Scientists are usually ok with it, though it sometimes is close to > nonsensical. > On the other hand, there is lot of objection to adding some metadata, that is > only a marginal cost in term of time (or at least has a much higher value per > time spent). > > I wonder why... > > best, > Andrea > > Il giorno 25/apr/2013, alle ore 15:11, Rob Warren <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > >> >> On 25-Apr-13, at 10:41 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: >>> Scientists would rather eat their dogs than give up their favoured >>> editing environments. >> >> And chew off their own (or their RA's) foot as well. >> >> Most conference submission / reviewing software already asks for the basic >> meta-data boilerplate to help the reviewing process (authors, title, >> affiliation, etc...) and this is manually entered before the paper is ready. >> >> Why don't we generate the meta-data directly from this process and not >> bother with the hand editing of anything? It would not be a stretch to get >> people to submit their citations file (Bibtex, RIS, etc...) along with the >> paper at camera ready and script the conversion to something semantic web >> friendly? >> >> This would neatly create the publications, citation and author graph in a >> stroke. >> >>> Solution 2. Make it valuable to the authors. >> >> Outcome 1: Make it valuables to the social bookmarking / citation websites >> downstream to load directly into their systems and increase the visibility >> of the publication. >> >> -rhw >> > > > -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: [email protected] School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU
