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

2014-10-06 Thread Sarven Capadisli
On 2014-10-06 06:59, Ivan Herman wrote: > Of course, I could expect a Web technology related crows to use HTML source editing directly but the experience by Daniel and myself with the World Wide Web conference(!) is that people do not want to do that. (Researchers in, say, Web Search have prove

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: > One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can > correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed. How > would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the reviewers could > not view portions of it? At

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Luca Matteis writes: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman wrote: >> The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if technically >> savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do: write their >> papers as quickly as possible. They do not want to spend their t

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
Sarven Capadisli writes: > I will bet that if the requirements evolve towards Webby submissions, within > 3-5 years time, we'd see a notable change in how we collect, document and mine > scientific research in SW. This is not just being "hopeful". I believe that if > all of the newcomers into the

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 7:43 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: I don't believe that HTML is a good authoring format any more than PDF is. I don't think see this as huge problem. HTML needs to be part of the tool-chain, not all of it. +1 -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http:

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello, My apologies if this is a repost (errors were encountered and my last post bounced from the listserv)... On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman wrote: > > The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if > technic

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: > Hello Community, > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman wrote: >> > The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if >> technically savy like this community, wa

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Community, On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Luca Matteis wrote: > On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Herman wrote: > > The real problem is still the missing tooling. Authors, even if > technically savy like this community, want to do what they set up to do: > write their papers as quickl

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

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Houle
Frankly I don't see the reason for the hate on PDF files. I do a lot of reading on a tablet these days because I can take it to the gym or on a walk or in the car. Network reliability is not universal when I leave the house (even if I had a $10 a GB LTE plan) so downloaded PDFs are my document fo

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 04:15 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: One problem with allowing HTML submission is ensuring that reviewers can correctly view the submission as the authors intended it to be viewed. How would you feel if your paper was rejected because one of the revie

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 04:27 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: [On using htlatex for conferences.] So, as well as providing a LNCS stylesheet, we'd need a htlatex cf.cfg, and one CSS and it's done. Be good to have another CSS for on-screen viewing; LNCS's back of a postage stamp is very poor for that. Phil I w

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 10:25 AM, Paul Houle wrote: Frankly I don't see the reason for the hate on PDF files. I do a lot of reading on a tablet these days because I can take it to the gym or on a walk or in the car. Network reliability is not universal when I leave the house (even if I had a $10 a GB LTE

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: > However, my point was not about looking good. It was about being able to see > the paper in the way that the author intended. Yes, I understand this. It's not something that I consider at all important, which perhaps represents our different view points. Rea

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

2014-10-06 Thread Luca Matteis
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: > Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the > paper, are they? Authors might have adjusted things that way specifically to deliver their message. I think being able to have consistent layouts *as the authors intend it*

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

2014-10-06 Thread John Erickson
This is an incredibly rich and interestingly conversation. I think there are two separate themes: 1. What is required and/or asked-for by the conference organizers... a. ...that is needed for the review process b. ...that is needed to implement value-added services for the conference c. ...that con

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: > I would be totally astonished if using htlatex as the main way to produce > conference papers were as simple as this. > > I just tried htlatex on my ISWC paper, and the result was, to put it mildly, > horrible. (One of my AAAI papers was about the same, the ot

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 08:38 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: I would be totally astonished if using htlatex as the main way to produce conference papers were as simple as this. I just tried htlatex on my ISWC paper, and the result was, to put it mildly, horrible. (One of m

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 08:29 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: However, my point was not about looking good. It was about being able to see the paper in the way that the author intended. Yes, I understand this. It's not something that I consider at all important, which perh

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

2014-10-06 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
Dear Peter, please show me how to query PDFs with SPARQL. Then I'll believe there are no benefits of XHTML+RDFa over PDF. Addressing the issue from the reviewer perspective only is too narrow, don't you think? Martynas On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > > On 1

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: >> It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could >> drop math-mode straight through and render client side with mathjax. > > Well, somehow png files are being produced for some math, which is a failure. Yeah, you have to tell it to do

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: >> Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the >> paper, are they? > > For reviewing, what the authors intend is extremely important. Having > different rendering of the paper interfere with the authors' message is > something that should

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 11:39 AM, John Erickson wrote: This is an incredibly rich and interestingly conversation. I think there are two separate themes: 1. What is required and/or asked-for by the conference organizers... a. ...that is needed for the review process b. ...that is needed to implement value-add

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
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. No, I don't think that viewing this issue from the reviewer perspective is too narrow. Reviewers

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side with mathjax. Well, somehow png files are being produced for some math, which is a fai

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

2014-10-06 Thread Martynas Jusevičius
Following the same logic, we still could have been using paper submissions? All you have to do is to scan them to turn them into PDFs. It's been a while since I was in the university, but wasn't dissemination an important part of science? What about "dogfooding" after all? Martynas On Mon, Oct

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is extremely important. Having different rendering of the paper interfere with the author

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 con

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: > On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: >> "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side with mathjax. >>> >>> Well, somehow png

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
I don't think that scanning a printout retains any metadata that was in the electronic source so, no, this would not follow using the same logic. I do agree that dissemination of results is one of the most important parts of the scientific process. The argument here is, I think, what is the be

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

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Lord
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: > On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: >> "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? >>> >>> For reviewing, what the authors intend is extremely important. Having >>>

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Sure. So extract the text from the PDF and query that. It also would be nice to have access to the LaTeX sources. What HTML publishing *might* have that is better than the above is to more easily embed some extra information into papers that can be queried. Is this just metadata that could

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: 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. Peter, Having had 200+ (some-non-rdf-doc} t

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

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Garcia Castro
querying PDFs is NOT simple and requires a lot of work -and usually produces lots of errors. just querying metadata is not enough. As I said before, I understand the PDF as something that gives me a uniform layout. that is ok and necessary, but not enough or sufficient within the context of the web

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 10:44 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: On 10/06/2014 09:28 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: It does MathML I think, which is then rendered client side. Or you could drop math-mode straight through and render client side wit

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is ex

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:00 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: On 10/06/2014 09:32 AM, Phillip Lord wrote: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" writes: Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the paper, are they? For reviewing, what the authors intend is ex

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: 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

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

2014-10-06 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Luca Matteis writes: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Phillip Lord wrote: >> Who cares what the authors intend? I mean, they are not reading the >> paper, are they? > Authors might have adjusted things that way specifically to deliver > their message. I think being able to have

CFP: 15th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), Rotterdam, June 22-26, 2015

2014-10-06 Thread Philipp Cimiano
15th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) Rotterdam, the Netherlands | June 22-26, 2015 http://icwe2015.webengineering.org/ IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract submission: February 05, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Full paper submission: February 12, 2015 (23h59 Hawaii Time) * Paper notificat

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 2:19 PM, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote: querying PDFs is NOT simple and requires a lot of work -and usually produces lots of errors. Yes, I believe I indicated that in my response to Peter i.e., it isn't simple or productive. just querying metadata is not enough. Yes, I said th

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

2014-10-06 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. On 2014 Oct 6, at 19:19, Alexander Garcia Castro wrote: > querying PDFs is NOT simple and requires a lot of work -and usually > produces lots of errors. just querying metadata is not enough. As I said > before, I understand the PDF as something that gives me a uniform layout. > that

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

2014-10-06 Thread Luca Matteis
Sorry to jump into this once again but when it comes to typesetting nothing really comes close to Latex/PDF: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120271/alternatives-to-latex - not even HTML/CSS/JavaScript On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Norman Gray wrote: > > Greetings. > > On 2014 Oct 6, at

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

2014-10-06 Thread Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Neat. This could be extended to putting a full table of contents into the metadata, and in lots of other ways. The other nice thing about it is that it would be possible to push the same data through a LaTeX to HTML toolchain for those who want HTML output. peter On 10/06/2014 03:18 PM, Nor

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

2014-10-06 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: 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

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

2014-10-06 Thread Mike Bergman
Hi Adobe lurkers, Kingsley has just handed you a valuable means to keep users tied to your technologies: On 10/6/2014 8:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schn

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

2014-10-06 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Luca Matteis [2014-10-07 00:41+0200] > Sorry to jump into this once again but when it comes to typesetting > nothing really comes close to Latex/PDF: > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120271/alternatives-to-latex - > not even HTML/CSS/JavaScript Making a floating model look like Latex/PD