How to cite: Peroni, S., Osborne, F., Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Poggi, F., Vitali, F., Motta, E. (2017). Research Articles in Simplified HTML: a Web-first format for HTML-based scholarly articles. PeerJ Computer Science 3: e132. e2513. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.132

RASH Framework

This project includes all the documents and source codes related to the RASH Framework, i.e., a set of specifications and writing/conversion/extraction tools for writing academic articles in RASH, i.e., a markup language defined as a subset of HTML for writing scientific articles. RASH has been released with its own documentation, which is a descriptive document that introduces the language and explains how to write research article by using it. In addition, there exist also guidelines for OpenOffice that explain how to write a scholarly paper, by using the basic features available in Apache OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word, in a way that it can be converted into RASH by means of appropriate conversion tools for ODT and DOCX.

An online conversion tool called ROCS (RASH Online Conversion Service) is available at http://dasplab.cs.unibo.it/rocs. It allows one to convert an ODT/DOCX document written according to the guidelines for ODT and DOCX files into RASH, which also includes the converted LaTeX document compliant with the Springer LNCS LaTeX class, ACM ICPS class, the ACM Journal Large class, and the PeerJ class.

A brief introduction of all the tools included in the Framework is provided in the related page, that includes also usage information.

Please use the hashtag #rashfwk for referring to any of the entities defined in the RASH Framework via Twitter or other social platforms. There is also available a Gitter room for discussing about the project.

A list of papers introducing the RASH Framework is enclosed at the end of this document, as well as a list of all the papers accepted in scholarly venues that have been written in RASH.

Venues that have adopted RASH as submission format

• 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)

• 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017)

• 2017 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2017), held during the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017)

• 3rd Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2017), held during the 14th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2017)

• 7th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2016), held during the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

• 4th International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction (LD4IE 2016), held during the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

• 6th Workshop on Linked Science (LISC 2016), held during the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

• 2nd Workshop on Mobile Deployment of Semantic Technologies (MoDeST 2016), held during the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

• PROV: Three Years Later 2016 Workshop, held during the Provenance Week 2016

• Semantic Publishing Challenge 2016 (SemPub2016), held during the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016)

• 4th International Workshop on Linked Media (LIME 2016), held during the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016)

• 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016)

• 2016 Workshop on Web APIs and RESTful Design (WS-REST2016), held during the 16th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2016)

• 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016)

• 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016)

• 2016 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016), held during the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016)

• 2015 International Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015), held during the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015)

• 2015 International Workshop on Learning in the Cloud (LC2015), held during the 26th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertex 2015)

• Semantic Publishing Challenge 2015 (SemPub2015), held during the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015)

• 1st International Workshop on LINKed EDucation at the ISWC 2015, held during the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)

• 3rd International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction (LD4IE 2015), held during the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)

Adopt RASH in your academic event

Please feel free to adopt RASH for accepting HTML submissions in your academic event, and don't hesitate to contact us for further information at essepuntato@gmail.com. The usual template we suggest for advertising the adoption of RASH is the following one:

Submit a zip archive containing an HTML file compliant with the Research Articles in Simplified HTML (RASH) format with the additional stylesheets and scripts included in the style package for guaranteeing a correct visualisation of the document on browsers.

RASH is part of a framework (https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/) for facilitating the creation of HTML research articles and their publication in research venues. In particular, RASH is composed by a few of the available HTML tags and allows one to add RDFa annotations to any element.

The current version of the RASH format is fully introduced in its documentation page (https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/documentation/index.html), which includes several examples. The complete RelaxNG grammar of the language is available online (https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/grammar/rash.rng). The whole style package of this format (which includes the documentation, the examples and the grammar) is also available as a ZIP archive (https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/rash.zip).

We encourage to use the earliest version of browsers for guaranteeing the best visualisation of the RASH documents. In addition, the translation from your RASH submission into the appropriate publishing format (either LaTeX Springer LNCS or LaTeX ACM ICPS) and the related creation of the PDF of your Camera Ready version that will be used in the official proceedings of the workshop will be totally handled by us through a semi-automatic process.

Papers introducing the RASH Framework

• Di Iorio, A., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Vitali, F. (2016). It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service. To appear in the Companion Volume of the Proceedings of the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016). Available in RASH and PDF.

• Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Smith, M., Vitali, F. Zhao, J. (2015). The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF submissions in scholarly venues. In Proceedings of the poster and demo session of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015). Available in RASH and PDF.

• Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Smith, M., Vitali, F. Zhao, J. (2015). Poster of the ISWC 2015 demo paper "The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF submissions in scholarly venues". figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1572159

• Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F., Smith, M., Vitali, F., Zhao, J. (2015): RASH Framework - ISWC 2015 MoM session. figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1566691

• Peroni, S. (2015). RASH Framework - ESWC 2015 MoM session. Presented during the Minute of Madness session at the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015). figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1468349

RASH papers accepted in scholarly venues

2016 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2016)

• Alex Wade, The Microsoft Academic Graph: New Applications and Research Opportunities

• Giorgos Alexiou, Sahar Vahdati, Christoph Lange, George Papastefanatos and Steffen Lohmann, OpenAIRE LOD services: Scholarly Communication Data as Linked Data

• Jason Portenoy and Jevin West, Dynamic Visualization of Citation Networks Showing the Influence of Scholarly Fields Over Time

• Angelo Salatino and Enrico Motta, Detection of Embryonic Research Topics by Analysing Semantic Topic Networks

• Joakim Philipson, Citation functions for knowledge export - a question of relevance, or, can CiTO do the trick?

• Sahar Vahdati, Anastasia Dimou, Christoph Lange and Angelo Di Iorio, Semantic Publishing Challenge: Bootstrapping a Value Chain for Scientific Data

25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016), poster and demo

• Angelo Di Iorio, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Francesco Osborne, Silvio Peroni, Francesco Poggi, Fabio Vitali, It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service

14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), poster and demo

• Angelo Di Iorio, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Francesco Osborne, Silvio Peroni, Francesco Poggi, Michael Smith, Fabio Vitali, Juhn Zhao, The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF submissions in scholarly venues

2015 Workshop on Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data (SAVE-SD 2015)

• Alessia Bardi and Paolo Manghi, Enhanced Publication Management Systems. A systemic approach towards modern scientific communication

• Angelo Di Iorio, Raffaele Giannella, Francesco Poggi and Fabio Vitali, Exploring bibliographies for research-related tasks

• Anna Lisa Gentile, Maribel Acosta, Luca Costabello, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Valentina Presutti and Diego Reforgiato, Conference Live: Accessible and Sociable Conference Semantic Data

• Anna Tordai, A Model for Copyright and Licensing: Elsevier’s Copyright Model

• Patrick Golden and Ryan Shaw, Period assertion as nanopublication

• Paul Groth, Increasing the Productivity of Scholarship: The Case for Knowledge Graphs

• Tobias Kuhn, Science Bots: A Model for the Future of Scientific Computation?