Re: Mirror for PIPS food ontology?

2009-10-15 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
i'd see obvious practical advantages. Maybe we could offer an archive service, parallel to the cache? just trying to figure out what can help developers, ideas? Giovanni [1] http://sindice.com/developers/cacheapi On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro

Re: Ontology for semantic web technologies field

2010-01-13 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
you can take a look at: the ontology metadata vocabulary, http://omv.ontoware.org/2005/05/ontology as for repositories, I would say the best tech right now is offered by http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ there is a version of this technology, BioPortal, outside of the biomedical domain, take a

CFP, Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web

2010-02-02 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions - http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ Heraklion, Greece - Deadline: March 1, 2010 The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of

ORES2010 extended deadline: March 7th. Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah!

2010-03-01 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Invited talk confirmed: Nigam Shah! http://www.stanford.edu/~nigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.phphttp://www.stanford.edu/%7Enigam/cgi-bin/dokuwiki/doku.php ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web ORES 2010 - Call for papers and system descriptions -

Natasha Noy and Peter Yim keynote speakers at SERES (ISWC)

2010-07-11 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy and Peter Yim will be our keynote speakers at the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010). == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

ISWC Workshop, Semantic Repositories, SERES.

2010-08-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion. Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

ISWC Workshop, Semantic Repositories, SERES.

2010-08-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Natasha Noy, Peter Yim and Jeff Pan will be at our round table discussion. Keynote speakers: Natasha Noy and Peter Yim == CALL FOR PAPERS == 1st International Workshop on Semantic Repositories for the Web (SERES 2010)

Semantic Publications

2011-02-28 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
1st International Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) http://www.eswc2011.org May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer, Manchester University, UK. “Utopia Documents and

open data for publications

2011-03-09 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Workshop on Semantic Publication (SePublica 2011) – http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011) – http://www.eswc2011.org May 30th, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Keynote by Steve Pettifer: “Utopia Documents and The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment”

OCAS Workshop and Challenge

2011-05-31 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Ontologies come of Age in the Semantic Web, OCAS2011 Collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) October 23rd or 24th, 2011 Bonn, Germany Also, OCAS Challenge: Prizes First place: US$ 2000 Second place: US$ 1000 Three

Ontologies Come of Age, OCAS at ISWC2011

2011-07-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies

How are ontologies being used?

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies are being used in several applications,

Ontologies Come of Age

2011-08-04 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where, what for, how, when and why? Ontologies

Ontologies Come of Age extended deadline

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Deadline has been extended: August 22 Visit us: http://ocas.mywikipaper.org The real challenge for Semantic Web technologies and ontologies lays in the adoption; although the need for this disruptive technology is clear, it has not yet been fully adopted by the mainstream. Ontologies: where,

Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!

2011-10-20 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
*Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!* At 9AM on the 24th Deborah will be opening the workshop, u cant miss it!! For more information please visit us at ocas.mywikipaper.org -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html

Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!

2011-10-23 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
*Deborah L. McGuinness, keynote speaker at OCAS!!!* At 9AM on the 24th Deborah will be opening the workshop, u cant miss it!! For more information visit us at ocas.mywikipaper.org -- Alexander Garcia http://www.alexandergarcia.name/ http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/75943.html

Future of Scholarly Communication

2012-01-09 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/ Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Scholarly communication, the next generation

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/ Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Connecting scientific publications with underlying research data sets

2012-01-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/ SePublica2012 an ESWC2012 http://2012.eswc-conferences.org/ Workshop. May 27-31, Heraklion, Greece. At Sepublica we want to explore the future of scholarly communication and scientific publishing. As we are going through a transition between print media and Web

Re: ANN: map4rdf - Maps viewer of RDF resources with Geometrical Information - now supports OpenStreetMap

2012-03-28 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Nice work Boris, congrats. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Boris Villazon-Terrazas bvilla...@fi.upm.es wrote: Dear all Within the context of the GeoLinkData initiative [1], the Ontology Engineering Group [2] is happy to announce a new release of map4rdf [3]. map4rdf is a mapping and

Re: Basic OWL editor/viewer?

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
There is Protege, which is a great tool. It has a very supporting community that covers all aspects when developing ontologies; from OWL and ontology development specific questions to plug in development, all is covered by the protege community. Protege has several useful plug ins, from

Call for Polemics

2013-04-10 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for Polemics at SePublica 2013 There is much controversy in the world of publishing and semantic publishing needs to both create waves in publishing and to ride the waves of change approaching in the world of publishing. We therefore invite statements for presentation at a discussion session

Hackathon at ESWC

2013-04-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi all, we are having a Hackathon while at the ESWC. May 27 in Montpillier, France. Theme: The ability to extract meaningful, machine-interpretable data from scholarly publications in PDF form is a big challenge. Several open source libraries exist that attempt to automate this process,

Hackathon at ESWC

2013-04-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi all, we are having a Hackathon while at the ESWC. May 27 in Montpillier, France. Theme: The ability to extract meaningful, machine-interpretable data from scholarly publications in PDF form is a big challenge. Several open source libraries exist that attempt to automate this process,

Re: Publication of scientific research (was: CfP: 3rd International Workshop on Linked Science 2013 (LISC2013))

2013-04-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
other formats should be accepted, more so in this specific type of conferences. how is the PDF supporting linked data? as far as I know part of the problem is precisely that content is locked up in PDF documents, hardly a case for linked data. Last year at sepublica we had a smilar discussion. an

Re: Publication of scientific research

2013-04-24 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
This also leads directly to the question how to make sure that we produce is still readable in 10, 20, or even 50 years? IMO, there's no big risk if you go with PDF, but for other, less main-stream formats – who knows? funny, I just received a PDF that was annotated with adobe acrobat on a

Re: Publication of scientific research

2013-04-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
just out of curiosity, what would the publication workflow like for authors? On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Andrea Splendiani andrea.splendi...@iscb.org wrote: Hi, ok. Let's see if we can offer xhtml+RDFa as an additional format, and see how people react. I'll spread the idea a bit.

Re: A request for conference organizers and promoters

2013-05-01 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
This will be an interesting experiment. will authors follow it? will there be a clear added value for readers? in any case interesting +1 This is an http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/4/S1/S5 example of using linked data in the biomedical domain, in scientific publications. although a post mortem

Re: Final CFP: In-Use Track ISWC 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
From some emails in this discussion the one thing that strikes me the most is just that it seems that now the PDF has all of the sudden became the format of choice for the realization of linked science. I am right now struggling with a task as simple as getting citation data from PDFs. I dont want

Re: Final CFP: In-Use Track ISWC 2013

2013-05-02 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Norman Gray nor...@astro.gla.ac.uk wrote: Alexander, hello. On 2013 May 2, at 22:49, Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Norman, I have heard the same from ADOBE people. its not the PDF it is YOU not wise enough as to know how to generate a PDF

Call for Polemics at SePublica 2013

2013-05-08 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for Polemics at SePublica 2013 There is much controversy in the world of publishing and semantic publishing needs to both create waves in publishing and to ride the waves of change approaching in the world of publishing. We therefore invite statements for presentation at a discussion session

ESWC Jailbreaking the PDF hackathon

2013-05-08 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good News All! The upcoming Jailbreaking the PDF hackathon (http://scholrev.org/hackathon) now has a venue. We will convene Monday morning, May 27 at the Agence Bibliographique de l'enseignement Superieur (ABES): http://www.abes.fr/Connaitre-l-ABES/Presentation-de-l-ABES. There is no

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-13 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
conferences are important on their own. for instance, right now the ISWC is an important conference regardless of the publisher of the proceedings. if I wanted to get the 2012 proceedings I may have to pay (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-35172-3). do publishers pay the ISWC

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com writes: the question is simple. both, eswc and iswc are prominent conferences because of a serious review process, a well structured set of committees working hard at the time of organization... but most of all, because we the community have accepted both

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
what if the journal is not well known, or known within a very specific/small community and with a low or inexistent impact factor. then, what is the added value? reputation is made by the community, not entirely by the publisher. the core of the work, writing, gathering papers, distributing to

Re: Is science on sale this week?

2013-05-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
paper from publication last year, as they would not do an open access option. So, with the situation as it stands, I cannot publish any semantic web research in either of these two conferences. Phil Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com writes: conferences are important on their own

Research and Polemics at Sepublica

2013-05-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
We are pleased to invite you all to the Sepublica Workshop (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/). We are having a full day workshop on the 26th. Peter Murray Rust is one of our keynote speakers; we are having news from the American Psychological Association as well as from the Cochrane

Get the good stuff out of PDFs

2013-05-21 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Join us in Montpellier for a one-day event to hack on scholarly PDFs! Do you have tools that may help us to extract information from PDFs? send us an email so that we can include them in the hackathon. Would you like to extract citations from existing PDFs? Wouldn't it be cool if we, scholars,

polemics

2013-05-23 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Dear all, please let us know your opinions about: Flash Mob Science, Open Innovation and Semantic Publishing by Hal Warren, Bryan Dennis, and Eva Winer (American Psychological Association) Science, Semantic Web and Execuses by Idafen Santana Pérez, Daniel Garijo, Oscar Corcho Future of

biotea and jailbreaking the PDF at hack4ac

2013-06-27 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Dear all, after our jailbreaking the pdf hackathon we are pleased to let you know about our participation at the hack4ac meeting in London. more information about the meeting can be found at http://hack4ac.com You are all welcome to join us in London, we will be very happy if we could know and

Re: ResXplorer.org

2013-10-23 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
why dont u just have a sample query. something that just works so that potential users, or people interested in your technology are able to see it in action. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com wrote: Two few in reply First the result page did not say

Scholarly communication, what, where and why

2014-01-14 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced

Scholarly communication, what, where and why

2014-02-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced

what is a data paper?

2014-02-28 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced

what is a computable document?

2014-03-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced

Sepublica 2014

2014-03-16 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Call for papers for Sepublica 2014 (May 25th afternoon session), an ESWC workshop. http://sepublica.info Dates: Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 15, 2014 Semantic publishing should be central to the openness that has been embraced

Re: Pratform for publishing experiment data

2014-06-10 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
I don't think this is not a problem where one size fits all. not only experimental data is heterogeneous, there is also the issue of granularity, are u also interested in experimental protocols -methods and techniques by means of which experimental data was produced. what kind of experimental data

Re: Bio2RDF vs Linked Life Data

2014-06-18 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Bonnie, why dont u address this issue with the bio2rdf mailing list? On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Bonnie MacKellar macke...@stjohns.edu wrote: Thanks, that is useful! I’ve already taken a look at Bio2RDF Release 3, and it seems promising. I think keeping the data up to date is another

2 articles every minute

2014-09-19 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Hi, I don't mean to be picky. I am just curious about statements like 2 articles every minute. Where do they come from? Where can I get this stats? are this stats about journal papers? if this is true, I assume it is, then shouldn't we start to consider that the quality of publications is simply

Re: Cost and access (Was Re: [ESWC 2015] First Call for Paper)

2014-10-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
I think that this is at the core of the problem: 2 impact factor: i have the impression that conventional publishers have a bit of a monopoly and and sudden disruption would be hard to engineer. How do to get leading researchers to devote their work in some new crackpot e-journal to the

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
the PDF has its value. yes, it ends up being printed and perhaps that is its main limitation. it is not a document for the web. it is a document engineered to preserve the layout. the format is closed, proprietary and with little real methods that support interoperability or data reusability -I am

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-03 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
from reading all these emails it seems to me that we are somehow thinking just in terms of the same document just that more friendly for a web browser. I would argue that having a layout friendly document has been solved long ago, the problem is having an interoperable document beyond just having

Re: Publication of scientific research

2014-10-04 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
what was the proposal/document that did not meet the standard of 12 pages? can u share it with me? On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Phillip Lord phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk wrote: Sarven Capadisli i...@csarven.ca writes: I made a simple proposal [1]. Zero direct responses. Why? You

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-05 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
metadata, sure. it is a must. BUT good and thought for the web of data. not designed for paper based collections. From my experience it is not so much about representing everything from the paper as triplets. there will be statements that won't be representable, also, such approach may not be

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
I would be much more generic here, show me how to query a bunch of PDFs with anything... of course, the answer will go like you can extract the text and do A and the B and then get a relatively decent text depending on A B and C. then someone else will chime in and say and this is just because

Re: scientific publishing process (was Re: Cost and access)

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
It's not hard to query PDFs with SPARQL. All you have to do is extract the metadata from the document and turn it into RDF, if needed. Lots of programs extract and display this metadata already. in the age of the web of data why should I restrict my search just to metadata? I want the full

Re: linked open data and PDF

2015-01-22 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
this discussion is related to the workshop we are organizing. At Sepublica http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/ we are very much looking forward to this kind of discussions. Those of you who are planning to attend the ESWC2015 please consider submitting to Sepublica; we have a special

challenge us with your submission

2015-02-15 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
, and scholarly publishing * Publishing data-driven arguments for general news consumption or in scholarly papers * Historical changes in publishing since the advent of online publishing: what is going right? Organizing Committee * Phillip Lord * Alexander Garcia Castro * Sarven

Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline

2015-03-04 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good news for all those who are wondering about Adobe and the semantic web. Larry Masinter (http://larry.masinter.net) will be with us at Sepublica. He will be our keynote speaker with Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline”. Larry will also participate in our round table, so if you

Keynote: Larry Masinter (Adobe) at Sepublica

2015-02-26 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Good news for all those who are wondering about Adobe and the semantic web. Larry Masinter (http://larry.masinter.net) will be with us at Sepublica. He will be our keynote speaker with Getting More Data Through the Publication Pipeline”. Larry will also participate in our round table, so if you

SePublica 2015: Do show, do not tell!

2015-01-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
data-driven arguments for general news consumption or in scholarly papers * Historical changes in publishing since the advent of online publishing: what is going right? Organizing Committee * Phillip Lord * Alexander Garcia Castro * Sarven Capadisli * Jodi Schneider -- Alexander

Re: linked open data and PDF

2015-01-29 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
Dear all, we are organising Sepublica 2015; this workshop is precisely about standards, metadata and semantic web improving scholarly communication. please take a look at http://sepublica.info/, also, take a look at the call for submissions. SePublica 2015: Do show, do not tell!