On Apr 25, 2013, at 11:11 - 25/04/13, Rob Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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? FYI, one of the most used such services, EasyChair, charges to produce XML dumps with this data - you don't get it in the free version. I'm not sure about the others, but last I checked, unless you want to run the service yourself, others don't provide it either. Cheers D
