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Update on what I am calling "Operation VET ALL THE VENDORS": I have a list of SOPA supporters and a list of American Association of Publisher members (which supports SOPA) who will be at ALA MW. I am now 1/3 of the way through checking all the remaining vendors for a couple of things:
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parent companies (if any, to make sure I catch them all), other imprint names (same reason), and whether they offer ebooks or not. The last of these things will be to create a list to encourage people to stop at their booths and ask them about their eBook lending policy (if any, if it is with Overdrive, etc.)
- Andy
I'm also making a list of companies that will not be at ALA MW but ones that libraries certainly deal with otherwise. (For example, Harlequin Books is a AAP member but will not be at MW. Same for Marvel Entertainment, a SOPA signer. And Warner Brothers as well since they've decided to embargo movies from public libraries for 28 days after they are released on DVD.)
- Andy
This process has been reduced to many, many Google searches and lots of website poking around. Since I'm away this weekend, I'm estimating it will take me a couple of nights (or one power through rawr night) to get through the whole list. So, I'm guessing I'll get everything together and published by MLK weekend, just in time for everyone to see before they go.
- Andy
And, if I eat my Wheaties, I'll make up a map of vendors so people can plan their path through the exhibit hall efficiently to talk to all the vendors.
- Andy
The current count: 33 entities (not counting companies under the same parent one). Counting every single vendor listing right now, it's roughly 10% of the vendors at ALA MW have some connection to a SOPA and/or RWA supporting company or association.
- Andy
Go go Andy!
- barbara fister
from iPhone
*gives Andy another box of Wheaties*
- Galadriel C.
Occupy Midwinter! We are the 99%! PROTEST ALL THE THINGS.
- Your Neighbor Steve
WITH COD.
- RepoRat
COD IN PROTEST SAUCE. SUSTAINABLY AGITATED. New from LSW Foods.
- Pete
That Marvel signed is a great disappointment. I happen to like their comics. Now, go get 'em.
- Angel R. Rivera
FWIW, Angel, DC Comics is a Warner Brothers company, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner, a SOPA supporter.
- Andy
Yea, I suspected DC had gone along (had forgotten who their daddy was). Le sigh.
- Angel R. Rivera
Nothing like a day of strategic planning to get you professionally frustrated.
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Strategery!
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Counting books is boring - http://www.attemptingelegance.com/...
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This is brilliant.
- Andy
I remember my former boss looking confused when I told him I wasn't going to be providing him with the "traditional" library statistics, because they don't really tell you anything by themselves. Now if we can just convince the national survey people of that...
- Mark Kille
RT @alexch: @davewiner @mikebutcher You can find any Twitter user's RSS link using my bookmarklet: http://alexch.github.com/bookmar...
zaka-wow RT @brainpicker: James Burke's entire Connections series, a BBC history of innovation, now free to watch online http://www.brainpickings.org/index...
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3 Ways to Host Your Own Delicious Alternative - ReadWriteCloud - http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud...
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Book manuscript sent to the publisher! Months more still to go before it appears, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel :-)
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are we there yet? are we there yet?
- Christina Pikas
Just a little further...
- Michael Nielsen
I rarely buy books, but I will certianly be purchasing this one. Thanks for the update, Michael.
- Graham Steel
congrats! when do we get to read some excerpts ;-)
- Anthony Leverrier
Thanks, everyone :-)
- Michael Nielsen
Congrats! I can't wait to read it!
- Chris Granade
Much awesomeness.
- Dave Bacon
Very cool!
- damian pope
What are you doing next, Michael?
- Seb Paquet
Seb - Two things. One, I expect to do some travel, just to meet some people doing interesting stuff on the fringe. Second, I've been playing around with a bunch of goofy small projects, to see what seems most interesting. I have a short list of half a dozen (the long list is way too long) - those projects relate variously to open source search, open education, some ideas about ethics...
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- Michael Nielsen
... (cont) areas where I'd be interested in meeting people: people doing data mining in the social sciences; DIY bio; makers; wearable computing; any kind of radical urban design or architecture; space (especially open source space). Anyone have any other suggestions for areas with lots of interesting fringy stuff?
- Michael Nielsen
I've always liked Stewart Brand's quote: "I look at the edges to see where the center is going.".
- Michael Nielsen
More stuff: a big problem we don't know how to solve is knowing your city. Even if I lived in a tiny town, I'd expect to miss 90+% of the interesting events going on. And in a big city the problem is far worse. E.g., in Toronto a couple of weeks ago I discovered a new-to-me seminar series which, over the ensuing two weeks had the following people speak: Salman Rushdie, Simon WInchester,...
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- Michael Nielsen
Another area I think is fascinating is space-based solar energy. I'd like to understand what the limits and possibilities are. How large a capital investment would it take to supply the world's electricity needs?
- Michael Nielsen
Beginnings are fun times :-)
- Michael Nielsen
A good way of asking my question above: where is scenius happening right now? "Scenius" is Brian Eno's term for a place where the social environment is exceptionally creative (http://www.kk.org/thetech... ) Good examples would be Athens in the fifth century BCE, or Bloomsbury, or Silicon Valley. Where is it happening now?
- Michael Nielsen
Addendum to "where is scenius right now?" -- if the answer does not start with "www.", why not? Is there a way to create such a place online or does it have to be in meatspace?
- Bill Hooker
It's a nice idea to create such a place online. It's also quite a challenge - consider the billions of dollars that have been spent in failed attempts to create it offline. (Suggests that it can't be made to order.) As Kelly says in the article I linked, it seems to emerge in locations and at times that are unpredictable. As an empirical question, I'd be curious to know where those communities are today, and what they're doing? In Bangalore? Delhi? Somewhere else? Is it coming out of Ashoka?
- Michael Nielsen
Apropros attempts to create scenius: here's a photo from a center for innovation in downtown Toronto: http://www.flickr.com/photos... I am not encouraged. Almost the only thing you can see are the security systems on the doors...
- Michael Nielsen
At least one of the doors has a phone. You could talk to the person on the other side of the locked door and beg to be let in.
- John Dupuis
The website gives a rather different impression from that photo -- e.g. http://www.marsdd.com/aboutma... (I am strongly inclined to believe the photo more than the hype-laden website.)
- Bill Hooker
It'd be interesting if you walked into the Centre for Social Innovation at a random time and see what that looks like. The couple of times I've been there it's been pretty lively.
- John Dupuis
+1 on knowing the city. We should talk about this sometime. I hope you come to Montreal at some point. It's not that far :-)
- Seb Paquet
Do you have a ref for that Brand quote?
- Seb Paquet
Not offhand. Not 100% sure whether it was Brand or Minsky. I've heard one of them quote the other on it.
- Michael Nielsen
The Writings of Leslie Lamport - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...
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.@easternblot Nope. Being proud of something you edited is just taking credit for work well done. Editing is an undervalued contribution!
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Amen to this. Have been thinking about peer review, too... should I put a list of all the published papers I edited and/or reviewed on my CV? I'd happily list editors/reviewers on my own papers.
- Bill Hooker
I wouldn't put it on a CV if you're looking for a job, but I'm tempted to ask for details on this kind of thing next time I advertise one (along with Wikipedia contributions, data publication...etc etc...)
- Cameron Neylon
I should say, unless its the type of job where that is obviously the criterion. CVs should always be written to the job description...
- Cameron Neylon
from twhirl
Yeah, the CV idea was half-baked... really just thinking aloud about how to get these sorts of contributions to stop being undervalued.
- Bill Hooker
#reps10 - Build networks not destinations - http://scienceoftheinvisible.b...
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Today I'm off to Cardiff for #reps10. In a time of uncertainty, five things are certain: The HEA Centre for Bioscience has been good, but it won't last forever. Like TLTP, CTIs, etc, it will go the way of the dinosaurs. The technology we are using today will be replaced by different technology in a few years/months/weeks time. The only way to survive change is to be agile. Building destinations will fail. The only organizations which survive long term are adaptable networks which accommodate change. You don't care about me as much as I care about me. When your funding runs out, you will stop curating my network. For it to survive, I must curate my own network.At #reps10, let us prepare for the future by building our personal networks. A.J. Cann, Science of the Invisible
- AJCann
Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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but users are not qualified to test! only the experts know what's right!
- Richard Akerman
from BuddyFeed
apparently. i was so overjoyed at the icons showing if we had access, i didn't even notice how hard it was to search within a reference book
- Christina Pikas
I'm ready to start a new thread apropos the Springer Horror Orange redesign, which is now default.
- carolh
Very cool stuff: "New Annals of Botany Bibliographies" http://aobblog.com/2010... - a great use of our new API by @annbot / @ajcann!
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And icing on the cake - I just got promoted to senior professional staff 2
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Congratulations!
- Michael Nielsen
Woohoo!
- Mar₭ Liŋdŋer
congrats!!!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
:-) congrats! hope this still leaves you time for ff & Co.
- Claudia Koltzenburg
turns out that it's no more money, no more responsibilities, it's just a title (well, a higher pay band but not actually higher pay immediately). Thanks! there's only one step from here, Principal Professional Staff... that will be for after the phd :)
- Christina Pikas
First drink is on me. Congrats!
- Julian
Great news! Happy congrats :)
- Mónica
Well de-serv-ed. (Accent as in baroque chorus if you choose...)
- carolh
RT @loic: Analysis: What are the Web's Top Sources of Referral Traffic? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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August 2010 Issue of First Monday Now Available; Articles on Facebook Privacy, Scholarly Blogging, Open Textbooks, Libraries/Web Content Management Systems, and More - http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010...
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In particular, note the article on motivations for blogging in a scholarly context.
- Jill O'Neill
hey, my blog is featured in American Libraries Direct (newsletter e-mail from ALA)
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Canadian University Hopes to Lead Fight Against High Subscription Prices - Publishing - The Chronicle of Higher Education - http://chronicle.com/article...
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Mark Leggott, you're my hero.
- amanda etches-johnson
For this and a million billion other reasons.
- John Fink
amen
- jambina
pq: "The librarian estimates that there are some 40,000 science journals published every year; if 3,000 libraries pitched in, he calculates, "then each of them would have to index 15 journal titles.""
- Bill Hooker
Actually I suspect you'd want more redundancy than that -- maybe 50% overcoverage, which would mean 20 titles each. Still do-able.
- Bill Hooker
Ian Mulvany is joining Mendeley! - http://www.mendeley.com/blog...
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Ah, so Ian's tweet from last week was true... Fab development !!
- Graham Steel
congrats Ian!
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Cool. Congratulations.
- Pawel Szczesny
congrats
- Frank
Congratulations! Since he already knows the Reflect API (http://reflect.ws/REST_AP...), I hope I'll be able to convince you to implement Reflect support in Mendeley ;-) Seriously, give me a shout if you'd be interested in trying to link up Mendeley and Reflect.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
Congrats to Ian on the new post.
- Dan Hagon
Congrats
- Mr. Gunn
Lars, I think there is interest in linking Mendeley, especially since they now have an API http://mendeley.com/oapi I don't know how much developer time they have available, but it's worth getting in touch.
- Mr. Gunn
Congrats Ian !
- joergkurtwegner
Why not submit your scientific poster or presentation to a public repository? #asmgm
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Examples of trustworthy repositories: Nature Precedings ( http://precedings.nature.com/ ) , F1000 Poster Bank ( http://posters.f1000.com/ ). Any other repositories to add to this list?
- Cesar Sanchez
I really liked SciVee's interactive posters: http://mashable.com/2008...
- Berci Mesko, MD
+1 SciVee!
- Björn Brembs
Totally agree with "why not?" We just started doing this and I can only see positives. E.g., Here's Andy's poster from last week on Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com/documen... It provides a DOI for the work, which is very nice.
- Steve Koch
D0r0th34: The danger of lock-in also applies to noncommercial services. Good export capabilities for one's own data, or any public data, helps reduce the risk. Open access licensing also helps address this issue, because anyone is free to provide mirrors.
- Mike Chelen
Thanks for all the answers! I'm thinking about what D0r0th34 said before: dissemination vs. preservation. I guess dissemination is enough if we view posters just as "work in progress" that gets outdated once it is published in a peer-reviewed journal. But, even in this case, preservation could be important, if not just for future historical research... or do we really need to preserve everything?
- Cesar Sanchez
In other words: are posters (and presentations) generally seen as "work in progress", not good enough for preservation? And if so, is this attitude wise?
- Cesar Sanchez
D makes a valid point - redundancy in dissemination should just become part of your standard workflow
- Jean-Claude Bradley
http://www.ebioposter.com/ and Colin Purrington has a fun site: Pimp my Poster on flickr -- http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- Mickey Schafer
What are the state of upload APIs for the repositories, do any use a common standard?
- Mike Chelen
JCB and others talking about redundancy might want to take a look at the CLOCKSS project: http://www.clockss.org/clockss...
- Mr. Gunn
Interesting...I was just asked by AthoGen at booth #342 to upload my poster to their site, so that *I* can benefit from making connections with other scientists. I wonder what they really want the posters for?
- Morgan Langille
MG - thanks for the tip on CLOCKSS - but what if that system goes down :) Also it seems to require some sort of fee, which is a deal breaker for me - there are so many free sites to host content now I prefer to effect redundancy through those for the foreseeable future
- Jean-Claude Bradley
@jimhu wrote on Twitter ( http://is.gd/cpCwm ): @TwistedBacteria ASM pubs confirms via email after picking up our Tweets: posters: not prior...into online repository IS prior pub. #asmgm (ASM = Am Soc Microbiol)
- Cesar Sanchez
Different journals and publishers have different policies (if any) about this grey area. So, prior to submit a poster/presentation to an online repository, one is supposed to: (1) know which journal you are planning to submit a future manuscript on the subject, and (2) confirm that this particular journal allows submissions of works previously submitted to online repositories. Which makes the whole thing highly impractical for most researchers, I guess.
- Cesar Sanchez
...by "most researchers" I mean those in the biomed/ life sciences field, which is the one I'm most familiar with. As D0r0th34 said before, this varies by discipline.
- Cesar Sanchez
If you're in an academic institution, I'd highly recommend putting it into your library's repository, if they have one. If done right, it will provide you with a DOI or other durable URL, and will be discoverable through Google, etc. You retain all rights and increase your visibility. Not the same as a discipline-specific site, but it offers one more way for your materials to be found. Here's an example from Purdue: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_res...
- Brian Westra
Sorta relevant to this discussion. As I noted above, we submitted our two posters + one talk to Nature Precedings for our conference last week. At the conference, Erik Schaffer, an excellent experimentalist in Dresden, pointed out that one effect we saw was surely due to our microscope slowly increasing in temperature over the course of many hours. We've done experiments this week to...
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- Steve Koch
Here we go with a poster for http://bit.ly/HBM2010 : http://dx.doi.org/10... . #HBM2010
- Daniel Mietchen
Thanks so much everybody for all the feedback, please keep it coming! I plan to write a blog post on this topic at Twisted Bacteria, soon.
- Cesar Sanchez
it's pretty easy to add presentations to IRs, espec. since there's no exchange of copyright. Our library IR has uploaded them. LOCKSS has a fee involved to join, so I don't think it's really an option for individuals. Portico will let individuals submit/license content, but they require fees as well. So long story short is the free 2.0 tools are really the only "free" choice for individual researchers, unless they have access to cloud computing or campus space.
- Elizabeth Brown
"Faculty don't seem to care abut long term access" :) http://ff.im/lSXcl
- Cesar Sanchez
Diff ways to import references, direct export - RIS etc (endnote), bookmarklet (citeulike), pdf metadata (mendeley), copy via clipboard (wizfolio), UI icon in url address bar (zotero), via identifer doi/pmd/google scholar (mendeley) or via direct search of resource e.g. Z39.50 (Endnote) . Did I miss any other methods?
Through a DB like Ebsco mark records and export into Refworks?
- Just Joe
Yes, I think that would be direct export using RIS format etc.
- aarontay
Why doesn't mendeley,zotero,wizfolio support RIS directly the way EndNote does? I don't mean you save it as RIS file then go into program and import but rather from the database select export as RIS and instantly bring that in (endnote associates with RIS format?). Other methods are unreliable and not widely supported. extraction of metadata from PDF varies in accuracy, bookmarklet methods rely on data scrapping which breaks all the time etc.
- aarontay
Mendeley can handle RIS that way just fine. Simply set Mendeley as the application to handle the RIS filetype. Is this not working for you?
- Mr. Gunn
Nope didn't try that. Is there a setting within Mendeley that does this? Or do I have to manually set it up?
- aarontay
Sidenote: RIS as a format is really starting to show its age. There's no distinction between author-supplied keywords and usertags, for example. If you're getting your RIS from a third-party service that uses tags (any social bookmarking tool) you have to roundtrip through BibTeX to create a separate field so you can import both author keywords and usertags. That's a failure of the format itself, not the supplying or consuming application.
- Mr. Gunn
Hmm didn't work. I should associate it with Mendeleydesktop,exe ?
- aarontay
It's not within Mendeley, it's in the OS or browser. You set the association so that instead of saving the file to disk, it gets opened in the application. Mendeley is working on a way to search databases from within Mendeley and handle the import for you, so you don't have to do that.
- Mr. Gunn
yes, that's right.
- Mr. Gunn
RT @azaaza: GlaxoSmithKline deposits 13,500 malaria compounds into the public domain via CC0. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembln... Tremendous! /via @lessig
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What is a reference manager? - http://blogs.nature.com/mfenner...
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bristling a little at the "most notably" bit, but good post! ;-)
- Mr. Gunn
I think it is fair to say that Papers was one of the first to provide good support for handling PDF files, instead of dealing with them as an afterthought.
- Martin Fenner
In Mr Gunn's defense, the phrase "most notably" implies to me that Papers does this better than any other program, not that Papers did it first.
- Bill Hooker
It's true that the Mac interface did lag a little relative to the rest of development, but we shall strive to attain the notability crown on all platforms. PM me at any time if there's anything specific I can do to help, Martin.
- Mr. Gunn
I don't see a license on your blog - would you mind if I posted this to our intranet. It does a much better job describing than I ever could
- Christina Pikas
Christina, the license information is here: http://www.nature.com/info.... Feel free to post this to your intranet. I can also provide you with the pictures (OmniGraffle format, but can be converted to PDF).
- Martin Fenner
according to that license, I really can't do much of anything - I'm surprised that Macmillan owns all of your posts... I guess I'll just link to it. Thanks!
- Christina Pikas
fwiw - we can set our own licenses. we just promise to put some unique content there. mine is a CC-by
- Christina Pikas
I don't see why anyone would be surprised that Nautre/Macmillan gets a "royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later...
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- Greg Tyrelle
woo-hoo Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science is moving to Project MUSE
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Friendfeed please don't go away.. - http://new2me.posterous.com/friendf...
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I still use friendfeed to "play around" with ideas about how I want to interact with the web, as both a content consumer and provider. Nothing I've found (yet) can replace friendfeed's functionality, easy to explain "common interface" (WRT to twitter/feeds) and the simplicity/flexibility of their embedded pages and widgets.
- Chris Myles
from Bookmarklet
Reddit is another model of qna site when you use the self.reddit section to ask questions and get answers from the community.
- TrafficBug
nice essay Chris, worth reading a couple times to appreciate how many good points you tied together in just a few paragraphs. FriendFeed nails Teh Awesome from so many different angles - should be considered a living museum piece exemplifying how to program a graceful SN.
- Dan Freeman
Dan thanks, "a few paragraphs".. too funny, here I was thinking how ridiculously out of date I am when I can't summarize my thoughts in a couple of sentences, let alone 140 characters. I completely agree about the museum piece and don't understand why the big players "don't get it". I haven't watched those tools "grow up" so I don't understand the history, but as a "castaway" there seem to be some pretty HUGE gaps that make me say WTF? Isn't all this supposed to make our lives easier and LESS complicated?
- Chris Myles
Well probably really not so easy to design and program as the simple grace of FriendFeed might lead one to think. I am starting to appreciate it as a work of art - a rare masterpiece of social software engineering. And your post explained a few reasons why.
- Dan Freeman
Louis Gray just posted his reasons for sticking around (http://ff.im/bS8xj). Notice that neither of us is sticking around JUST for the community, we've found a tool that works and there isn't a suitable replacement (yet).
- Chris Myles
+Dan for referring to Friendfeed as a work of art. It is. I hate to see participation flagging. My own circle has died down a little bit lately. I'm searching for active new users. I see a couple of new people almost every day.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Johnny Worthington just added his thoughts with lots of detailed reasons (http://ff.im/bVMpo). Nice writeup!!
- Chris Myles
I've recently tried Buzz but I found refresh and post order problems which prevent (me) from having real real-time discussions. Plus it's not open YET.. the only place I can use it is logged in via gmail (no embeds, feeds, or basic Url search capabilities).. you can't even accurately monitor your company/blog url activities.
- Chris Myles
Another issue with Buzz compared to FriendFeed is a lack of visual distinction for friends' comments. Maybe there will there be an API soon?
- Mike Chelen
Go To Hellman: Authors are Not People: ORCID and the Challenges of Name Disambiguation - http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2010...
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"ORCID commercial participants hope to use ORCID data to pull costs out of their own processes, to fuel social networks for authors or to drive new or existing information services. Libraries and reserch foundations hope to use ORCID data to improve information access, faculty rankings and grant administration processes. All of these applications will require that restrictions on the use of ORCID data must be minimal, limiting ORCID's ability to offer for-fee services."
- Mr. Gunn
from Bookmarklet
More talk about business models. If the point is to provide a service to improve the state of academic publishing, what works best technically should be the primary consideration, not what's the most easily monetizable.
- Mr. Gunn
In this case, I think the two aren't far apart, because there's significant savings to be realized from a universally accessible author disambiguation service.
- Mr. Gunn
That's a nice article about the challenges involved and sets out the stall well...
- Cameron Neylon
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