Tweet An excellent article published last month in the Chronicle celebrates Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary by observing that today the project doesn’t represent “the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting” and, as such, it can serve as “an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web”. [...]
Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category
September 22, 2010
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ReaderMeter: Crowdsourcing research impact
By dario in Announcements, Collaboration, Reference management, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0Tweet Readers of this blog are not new to my ramblings on soft peer review, social metrics and post-publication impact measures: can we measure the impact of scientific research based on usage data from collaborative annotation systems, social bookmarking services and social media? should we expect major discrepancies between citation-based and readership-based impact measures? are [...]
Tags: bookmarks, collaborative annotation, crowdsourcing, g-index, h-index, mashup, mendeley, metrics, references, research impact, soft peer review, Statistics, usage factors
August 11, 2010
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Science Online London 2010
By dario in Collaboration, Conferences, e-Science, TalksTweet There is only a bunch of tickets left for one of the most exciting annual events in the area of ICT for science. Hosted by Mendeley, Nature and the British Library, the second edition of Science Online London (3-4 September 2010) promises to bring together hackers, academics, publishers and startups in the field of [...]
November 17, 2009
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Review of Google Wave as a scholarly HTML editor
By jose in Announcements, Collaboration, Web 2.0, WritingTweet Peter Sefton wrote a series of posts on wave. He has published on Scholarly HTML so I read attentively what he has to say. What follows is some highlights of his posts, and my thinking about where things are going. There are at least four things that bother me about wave –as it is [...]