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Academic papers
@rgrp et al.
Take an academic publishing organisation at random, which publishes the papers in PDF. Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_journals (get one of them e.g., Springer to request academic papers in XHTML+RDFa from here on end)
If OKFN is 100% behind that, I'll support OKFN's Bad Data initiative by 120%.
See also: https://github.com/csarven/linked-research e.g., Print view http://csarven.ca/linked-statisical-data-analysis in Firefox, and dereference the URI for RDF. Some write-up: http://csarven.ca/linked-research
Interested? Got resources?
@csarven could you clarify what the request was in the original comment - what were you asking Open Knowledge to back exactly?
@rgrp I was hoping that if OKFN (Labs) is serious about turning bad data into good data, or fostering Open Data/Research/Science, it can direct some of that energy to academic publications. It is insanely trivial to pick up on the shortcomings of the current 'state of the art', and make efforts to improve the situation. I only gave a possibility and offered to join forces.
But, this is your thing. I'm only budding in. :) I didn't like the "bad data" approach as you may recall: https://github.com/okfn/bad-data/issues/18 but at least with this issue, there is a particular focus. Just a suggestion.
@csarven what do you think people could be doing exactly? would you like to start a thread on http://discuss.okfn.org/category/open-knowledge-labs/ about this?