I agree, perhaps separating the content management idea, trying it out on PLOS content first sounds like a better idea, <br>some good ideas, <br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 12:52 PM, Austin Che <
<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
<br>> read and study something in detail, mainly because viewing PDF's on screen<br>> sucks, viewing wiki pages is somewhat better and the PLOS on-line format is<br>> good, but I think we're missing the main point.
<br><br></div> I actually think PDFs online are easier to read than wikis.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> We need a way to replicate the things that we like about reading things on<br>> paper, in a digital way so that people wanting to study the content, want to
<br>> read it on-line instead of printing it. I have some ideas for tracking the<br><br></div> This a good idea but I think is quite separate from the idea of a<br> POWW journal. We don't need a journal to do any of these things.
<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Perhaps the main article could be a traditional wiki page, but tagged so<br>> that the content could be scrapped into the different forms?<br><br></div> plos has a xml format for their content. If we just wanted to work
<br> on the easy online reading of content, we could begin by creating<br> a front-end for plos content and displaying their articles in a<br> friendly way.<br><br> I think a POWW journal has more possibilities in actually changing
<br> the way the publishing process works rather than just the final<br> form of the content.<br><br> Some ideas:<br> - All peer reviews are public, on the wiki, and reviewers get<br> credit<br> - A better credit, authorship system at least for who wrote an
<br> article on the wiki. If I see an interesting fact/sentence in an<br> article, I should be able to easily figure out who wrote that and<br> should contact to get more info.<br> - Continually evolving articles
<br> - Article comments/discussions being tracked with an article<br> - Of course, openness in everything<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu
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