Hi Silvio, This is great, thanks. I was wondering whether you are considering the issue of link rot (cited web resources that disappear over time)? Since this is HTML, you could consider embedding a solution like robust links: http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec/
Best, Miel On 30 Oct 2015, at 09:29, Silvio Peroni <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm pleased to announce the new version (0.4) of RASH, the Research Articles > in Simplified HTML format, and of all the tools included in the RASH > Framework, available at > > https://github.com/essepuntato/rash > > RASH is a markup language that restricts the use of HTML elements to only 31 > elements for writing academic research articles. It is possible to include > also RDF statements as RDFa annotations and/or as Turtle, JSON-LD and RDF/XML > triples by using the tag "script". The RASH documentation is available online > [1] and documents RASH version 0.4, defined as a RelaxNG grammar [2]. > > These are the new features that RASH 0.4 implements: > > - old elements such "div" and "span" have been replaced by more appropriate > and semantic-oriented elements, e.g., "section", "figure", "figcaption", > "blockquote", "pre" and "code"; > > - the structural semantics of particular elements (e.g., sections of a > specific type, such as abstract, bibliography, etc.) is now provided by means > of the attribute '@role' instead of '@class', and its values are strictly > compliant with the current version of the Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module > 1.0 [3]; > > - a new kind of floating box for creating text listings (that can be easily > referenced within the document that contains them) has been created by means > of the element "figure" with role "listingbox"; > > With the release of this new version, we have also made available new tools > as part of the RASH Framework [4]: > > - a new script, i.e., "rash-update.sh" [5], based on an XSLT document [6], > that allows one to convert automatically documents written using an old > version of RASH into the earliest one; > > - a new Java-based application, i.e., "odt2rash.jar" [7], based on another > XSLT document [8], that allows one to convert OpenOffice documents, written > according to specific guidelines [9] using only basic features of OpenOffice, > into RASH documents automatically; > > These tools accompany the other existing ones for checking the validity of > RASH documents, visualising RASH documents on browsers with two different > layouts (Web-based and Springer LNCS – the latter is partially based on > Linked Research [10] CCSs), for converting RASH documents into LaTeX > according to the ACM ICPS [11] and Springer LNCS [12] styles, and for > automatically annotate RASH elements with their actual (structural) semantics > according to the Document Components Ontology (DoCO) [13]. > > A brief description of the whole RASH Framework has been presented during the > poster and demo session of ISWC 2015 (http://iswc2015.semanticweb.org/), and > the related article is freely available in RASH and PDF [14]. It is worth > mentioning that RASH has been already proposed as one of the possible formats > for HTML submissions in several academic events, listed in [15]. > > I'm looking forward to having your comments about RASH and its Framework and, > in case you are already an earlier adopter of it, please feel free to > participate in a 10 minutes survey about the use of RASH for writing academic > papers, available at http://esurv.org/?u=rash-format. > > Of course, this work could not be possible without the support and help of > great people [16] who implemented several aspects of the RASH Framework. We, > as developers, would also like to thank all the early adopters of RASH, and > Ivan Herman who constructively provided new and effective insights into the > RASH specification and who suggested several additions that have been > implemented in the current version. > > Please don't hesitate to contact me (email: [email protected]) for > comments, suggestions, and further questions. > > Have a nice day :-) > > S. > > > # References > > 1. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/documentation/index.html > 2. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/grammar/rash.rng > 3. Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0, W3C Editor's Draft 30 October > 2015. https://rawgit.com/w3c/aria/master/aria/dpub.html > 4. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/tools/ > 5. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/tools/rash-update.sh > 6. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/xslt/rash-update.xsl > 7. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/tools/odt2rash/ > 8. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/xslt/from-odt.xsl > 9. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/documentation/rash-in-odt.odt > 10. https://github.com/csarven/linked-research > 11. http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates > 12. http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 > 13. Constantin, A., Peroni, S., Pettifer, S., Shotton, D., Vitali, F. (in > press). The Document Components Ontology (DoCO). To appear in Semantic Web – > Interoperability, Usability, Applicability. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS > Press. DOI: 10.3233/SW-150177 > 14. Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., > Smith, M., Vitali, F. Zhao, J. (2015). The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF > submissions in scholarly venues. To appear in Proceedings of the poster and > demo session of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015). > Preprint available in RASH > (https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/papers/rash-demo-iswc2015.html) > and PDF > (https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/papers/rash-demo-iswc2015.pdf) > 15. > https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/#venues-that-have-adopted-rash-as-submission-format > 16. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/graphs/contributors > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Silvio Peroni, Ph.D. > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) > Tel: +39 051 2094871 > E-mail: [email protected] > Web: http://www.essepuntato.it > Twitter: essepuntato >
