On 2014-10-02 11:08, Luca Matteis wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Sarven Capadisli <[email protected]> wrote:If a SW/LD "computer scientist" "researcher" can manage to deal with LaTeX, would it be presumptuous to say that they can probably manage HTML?If a non-computer scientist can get a Web page up or use an existing bloging software/service to publish some information, do you think that the average SW/LD will be able to cope with that? Or are we asking for too much from the SW/LD researcher here?You're again comparing two different technologies that are used for different things!
I was addressing an issue on working with these technologies. It had nothing to do with the quality or the purpose of the technologies in comparison. So, why paint it as such?
HTML works great for the Web because it's lightweight. Latex works great for papers that need to end up in a physical journal because it has better facilities for that. Imagine a Latex person coming to you asking "why doesn't the Web community embrace Latex as a format for rendering web pages". HTML can't and won't work for everything. So let's not presume it will and let's find solutions such as Latex RDF formats or even trying to embed RDF statements in PDF documents to me seems like a sensible idea. RDF can be expressed in Turtle, JSON-LD, HTML (RDFa), XML (RDF/XML)... adding PDF or Latex to the group seems like a logical thing to do.
How often do SW/LD researchers pick up print journals as opposed to PDF files and then maybe run to their printers?
How many HTML documents did you look at in the past 24 hours to consume information in comparison to PDF?
So, it sounds like you are advocating the importance of print quality over everything else in the picture.
HTML+CSS may not solve all of our problems, but I think they do remarkable job in advancing human knowledge. The question is, what is the priority for SW/LD research conferences? To comply with whatever works best for publishers, or to raise the level of scientific communication and discovery in its own field?
IMHO, we have our fundamental priorities mixed up. And, that's clouded by the fact that there is some technologies and tooling that works best for publishers and print output (at least at this time).
You can have the last say on this thread. I am primarily interested in hearing SW/LD research venues making a compromise to help SW/LD research go forward.
-Sarven http://csarven.ca/#i
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