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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 at SePublica 2013 at ESWC in Montpellier on 26 May 2013.



We want radical, controversal and polemical positions to be articulated about semantic publishing and how we should achieve semantic publishing of scholarly works, data and all sorts of stuff. To be presented, statements must be relevant, legal and not too offensive(as judged by the workshop organisers).



All acccepted statements wil be presented. Submission will be through easychair; all accepted polemics will be

published before the meeting on the Knowledgeblog platform (http://www.knowledgeblog.org), where they will be permanently archived, and open for public comments. Submissions should be limited to 500 words. We can accept submissions in most formats, including Word, simple HTML (nothing in the header, no active content) or Latex (again the simpler the better). Presentations on the day wil be restricted to one slide that will be presented for two minutes (we will do this via timed slides) - all slide presentations must be submitted in advance. Presentations will be followed by a vivid discussion.



Dates:



1. one page statements by * to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sepublica2013

2. Deadline, 10th of May, notification by 15th of May. 

3. Slides should be sent by the 20th of May. 





Illustrating what we would like to have...



Here's To The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who DO !"



I believe this is from Steve Jobs, but I am not sure about the right atribution of sentence.

Welcome to SEPUBLICA 2013

For over 350 years, scientific publications have been fundamental to advancing science. Since the first scholarly journals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (of London) and the Journal de Sçavans, scientific papers have been the primary, formal means by which scholars have communicated their work, e.g., hypotheses, methods, results, experiments, etc. Advances in technology have made it possible for the scientific article to adopt electronic dissemination channels, from paper-based journals to purely electronic formats. However, In spite of improvements in the distribution, accessibility and retrieval of information, little has changed in the publishing industry so far. The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for scientific and non-scientific papers, news, and communication in general; however, most of that information remains locked up in discrete digital documents that are replicates of their print ancestors; without machine-interpretable content they lack the exploitation we have begun to expect from other data. Semantic enhancements to scholarly works would expose both the content of those works and the implicit discourse between those works. Scholarly data and documents are of most value when they are interconnected rather than independent.