Hi Paul, No offense intended. It certainly isn't your fault that you can't modernize the academic publishing industry overnight. Nobody expects that.
However, I do sympathize with Sarven. It won't change if we can't show the publishers a more compelling way to do there work. That includes economics, not just technology. Regards, Dave On Apr 23, 2013, at 17:52, Paul Groth <pgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > As an organizer of both this workshop and one called the Beyond the PDF > force11.org/beyondthepdf2 - I'll respond. > > There's nothing particularly wrong with PDF as a means of encapsulating human > readable information so asking for submissions this way seems suitable. (Yes > there are downsides to the format and maybe we would should be more liberal > in terms of formats). pdf also has facilities for embedding metadata in rdf. > > I would hope that the submissions to the workshop are the text around lots of > links to both source code repositories and linked data sources - that's the > true test > > Paul > > On Apr 23, 2013, at 23:30, David Wood <da...@3roundstones.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:11, Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> wrote: >> >>> On 04/23/2013 08:48 PM, Erp, M.G.J. van wrote: >>>> Submissions should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in >>>> Computer Science guidelines for proceedings available at >>>> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 and >>>> submitted to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lisc2013. >>>> Papers should be submitted in PDF format. >>> >>> Linked Science is brought to you by PDF. >> >> Yep. That seems silly for a reason :) >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >> >>> >>> -Sarven >>
