Comments on: Journal of Web Semantics Preprint Server

By: Peter Mika

Peter Mika — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:50:29 +0000

And with some pride I add that the preprint server is running on openacademia, a bibliography management system that Michel Klein and myself have put together while at the Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam. The system is fully RDF-based (converting from BibTex to RDF and backwards) and has some other nifty features not used here, e.g. generating RDFa enabled bibliographies for personal web pages.

By: Ivan Herman

Ivan Herman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:33:40 +0000

Jim,

thanks. I indeed did not know this. Congratulation for your successful negotiation then:-) But it also shows that my first instinctive reaction was correct: isn’t it a shame that you had to go through this to get the articles into the open? When will it be the norm for publications to be accessible to everyone?

Sigh. Anyway, enough rumbling. Enjoy the papers…

By: Jim Hendler

Jim Hendler — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:17:24 +0000

Ivan – Just so you know – this preprint site is NOT run by Elsevier — there was a major negotiation between us and them when we set up the journal. We insisted that we “owned” the accepted preprints and they owned what came after (i.e. once they added value). The preprint server has been up since the beginning of the journal’s existence, but in the past year it has moved to Manchester and taken on a new look and feel. There’s also a fair amount of RDF metadata floating around – I know at one time we planned to add this to the Linked Object Data world, I’m not sure what became of that idea after I stepped down as an EIC.