[OWW-SC] Fwd: Postgenomic + OWW

[Jason Kelly]

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From: Adie, Euan <e.adie at nature.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Postgenomic + OWW
To: Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu>


Hi Jason,

The short answer is yes - I'm definitely interested. :)

I think that at the very least it'd be cool to link papers already in the
Postgenomic database to the wiki pages that cite them - we do something
similar already with Faculty of 1000 reviews. As you say, this sort of thing
is currently outside of the current paper-cites-paper referencing system.

Technically speaking, ideally there'd be a feed of recently modified pages
that included the full text of the page (not just the edit): if you're using
the MediaWiki citation plugin (?) then we could get everything else by
looking for that markup...

I don't know how feasible that is on your end: I don't really know an awful
lot about the MediaWiki internals, unfortunately. :(

Anyway, thanks for your mail,

Cheers,

Euan


On 28/9/06 05:26, "Jason Kelly" <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

>
> (1) Commentary about a particular paper (e.g. a summary or critique) -
> this most closely resembles the blog-type content that postgenomic
> currently aggregates.
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Stephanopoulos:Literature_Reviewed
>
> (2) Reference to a paper in a protocol, material description (e.g.
> media recipe), etc.
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Bacterial_Transformation#References
>
> (3) Reference to a paper in a research project description (e.g.
> referencing it as prior work)
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/Reshma_Shetty/Thesis_research
>
> What's interesting about the last 2 types is that they are analogous
> to references in a typical peer-reviewed publication.  However, since
> OWW falls outside the normal referencing system, author's aren't
> receiving any real recognition for other scientists citing their work.
>   (e.g. it doesn't contribute to the "citation score" of the paper).
>
> So I'm not sure which of the above sort of content postgenomic would
> be interested in aggregating (if any), but would love to talk more
> about this if it's something you think is worthwhile.  it might
> require a bit more of a technical hack to set it up, since the only
> RSS feed off the site currently is the RecentChanges (e.g. every change
> made to the site).
>
> Let me know if you'd be interested in talking more.  We're available
> to talk by phone or email, whatever works best for you guys.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason


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