[open-bibliography] FW: CfP: Semantic Web Journal Issue on Semantic Web and Reasoning for Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries

Fri Nov 5 16:19:55 UTC 2010

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:07:42AM -0700, Jim Pitman wrote:
> Ironic to see this list used to promote a subscription journal which is not
> freely available on the web. Cant we promote open access journals for
> Sematic Web research?

>From http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors

    ... Authors should be aware that their submitted manuscript,
    together with reviews, will be made publicly available on the
    under review section...
    ... It is strongly encouraged, that the described ontologies
    are free, open, and accessible on the Web...
    ... It is strongly encouraged, that the described tools or
    systems are free, open, and accessible on the Web...

And authors are of course free to make their papers, tools, etc.,
available elsewhere, indeed encouraged to do so. 

But you are correct, the journal itself is a print publication
and we don't have proper public metadata for it. I actually 
contacted the editors about this some time ago and they are 
planning to make bibliographic metadata available (in RDF) as
I understand it. It's just a question of time and resources.

I hardly think they're evil. They encourage openness but don't
necessarily enforce it. Do you have any suggestions about 
alternative journals that might be "more open" for this type of
material?

-w