[OWW-SC] POWW!

[John Cumbers]

Yes, I'm interested in this, but I think that we can do better than a
traditional wiki.  The majority of people still print pdf's if they want to
read and study something in detail, mainly because viewing PDF's on screen
sucks, viewing wiki pages is somewhat better and the PLOS on-line format is
good, but I think we're missing the main point.

We need a way to replicate the things that we like about reading things on
paper, in a digital way so that people wanting to study the content, want to
read it on-line instead of printing it.   I have some ideas for tracking the
published content, hiding the details unless you want to see them, timing
how long it takes people to read things and how they move through the
content.  How might this be done? I have some other ideas for a dev house
(via Mac Cowell), a weekend(ish) codathon or competition that oww could
sponsor to develop some of this software.   E.g give the coders a
traditional published paper, ask them to dissect it and re-publish it in a
form most easily readable on-line, then have a bank of naive testers to see
which format is the easiest/fastest to comprehend.

Perhaps the main article could be a traditional wiki page, but tagged so
that the content could be scrapped into the different forms?

I was really busy last semester, but I have some more time now.   I can pen
down some more detailed ideas, but any thoughts on this so far?

cheers,
John



On Jan 4, 2008 10:56 AM, Drew Endy <endy at mit.edu> wrote:

> Does anybody want to start a new peer-reviewed Wiki-based journal?
>
> POWW (Proceedings of the Open Wet Ware)
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Happy 2008!
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