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On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pag
by Joeri 7y ago
On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. This makes science less accessible than it should be and in my view is part of the reason media so often misrepresent scientific findings.
- rauhl 7y ago> On the other hand, the restriction that scientific publications must be renderable onto reconstituted dead trees makes it that authors often spend multiple “pages” explaining what a single interactive chart would explain far better. On the gripping hand, in a century those reconstituted dead trees will still be legible by anyone who can lay hands on them; the likelihood that an interactive presentation from 2019 will be legible to anyone other than a computer archæologist in 2119 is effectively nil. Heck, there’s a decent chance that it won’t work in a year or two!
- ska 7y agoInteractive charts are great for supplemental material, but moving primary sources (e.g. journal papers) to anything as ephemeral as the current web stack is a terrible idea.