[OWW-Discuss] academic genealogy

[Ilya Sytchev]

I've sent an email to the Math Genealogy project (the original project)
but haven't heard anything back.  I think our best bet would be to
implement this idea ourselves using the Semantic MediaWiki extension or
some social networking software like Elgg or PeopleAggregator - need to
think about it a bit more.

Ilya

John Cumbers wrote:
> This is a really good idea Ilya, and would turn out to be really popular
> I think. would it take much to implement it?
> Best,
> john
> 
> On 5/3/07, *Ilya Sytchev * <ilyas at mit.edu <mailto:ilyas at mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Here's a short summary:
> 
>     "One's doctoral advisor is one's academic parent. This lets us define an
>     academic genealogy of researchers, to describe the academic ancestors
>     and descendents of a particular set of researchers."
> 
>     See the AI Genealogy Project
>     (http://aigp.csres.utexas.edu/~aigp/?s=mission) for more details.
> 
>     Another option would be to make use of the Semantic Web
>     extension.  Here
>     are some examples:
>     http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/People
>     http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Valentina_Tamma
>     <http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Valentina_Tamma>
> 
>     I think it may be useful to do something like this for OWW.
> 
>     Ilya
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