What about EPUB, which is xHTML and has support for Schema.org markup? It also provides for fixed-layout.
On 10/1/14, 12:55 PM, "Kingsley Idehen" <[email protected]> wrote: >On 10/1/14 12:35 PM, Sarven Capadisli wrote: >> On 2014-10-01 18:12, Fabien Gandon wrote: >>> Dear Saven, >> >> Thank your for your response Fabien. >> >>> The scientific articles are presenting scientific achievements in a >>> format that is suitable for human consumption. >>> Documents in a portable format remain the best way to do that for a >>> conference today. >> >> I acknowledge the current state of matters for sharing scientific >> knowledge. However, the concern was whether ESWC was willing to >> promote Web native technologies for sharing knowledge, as opposed to >> solely insisting on Adobe's PDF, a desktop native technology. >> >> If my memory serves me correctly, the Web "took off" not because of >> PDF, but due to plain old simple HTML. You know just as well that HTML >> was intended for scientific knowledge sharing at large scale, for >> human as well as machine consumption. >> >>> However: >>> - all the metadata of the conference are published as linked data e.g. >>> http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/eswc/2014/html >> >> This is great. But, don't you think that we can and ought to do better >> than just metadata? >> >>> - authors are encouraged to publish, the datasets and algorithms they >>> use in their research on the Web following its standards. >> >> I think we all know too well that this is something left as optional >> that very few follow-up. There is no reproducibility "police" in SW/LD >> venues. Simply put, we can't honestly reproduce the research because >> all of the important atomic components that are discussed in the >> papers e.g., from hypothesis, variables, to conclusions, are not >> precisely identified or easily discoverable. Most of the time, one has >> to hunt down the authors for that information. IMHO, this severely >> limits scientific progress on Web Science. >> >> Will you compromise on the submission such that the submissions can be >> in PDF and/or in HTML(+RDFa)? > >+1 > >We need to get over this hurdle. We can't expect to be taken seriously >if we don't wire what we espouse into the fabric of our existence. > >-- >Regards, > >Kingsley Idehen >Founder & CEO >OpenLink Software >Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com >Personal Weblog 1: http://kidehen.blogspot.com >Personal Weblog 2: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen >Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen >Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about >LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen >Personal WebID: http://kingsley.idehen.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this > >
