[Air-L] A Radical Scientific Wiki: The Time Is Here !!!

[Marshall Poe]

Dear List:

While I agree with Gerard about the possibilities of wikis, I wonder how
much of this really new. Larry Sanger's Citizendium tracks contributions by
all users, each and every word. Citizendium has a robust reputation
management system. In addition, users can only edit under their real names
and, if they so choose, can contribute articles that are published under
their names (called "signed articles" on the site). Authorship matters.

Best, Marshall

Marshall Poe
Department of History
University of Iowa
280 Schaeffer Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-2291
www.newbooksinhistory.com
www.memoryarchive.org


On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM, McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] <
gerrymck at iastate.edu> wrote:

> Colleagues/
>
> As some may be aware, I have long proposed The Wiki as The Next Scholarly
> Communication/Publishing Environment
>
> Gerry McKiernan. "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come |
> Re(Use) / Re(Mix) / Re(New)." Invited keynote presentation delivered at
> Transforming Practice for An Authentic Future, 3rd International Conference
> on Plagiarism, June 23-25, 2008, Northumbria University,
> Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Director' Cut version self-archived at:
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt<http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Egerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt><
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt<http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Egerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt>>
>   (30 August 2008)
>
> "Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities," Invited
> presentastion delivered at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the
> Future. Module 2: Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for
> Libraries, Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources BV (TICER),
> Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, August 23, 2005. Self-archived
> at: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt<http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Egerrymck/TICER2005.ppt><
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt<http://www.public.iastate.edu/%7Egerrymck/TICER2005.ppt>>
>    (30 August 2008)
>
> Thanks To Bernie Sloan, Sora Associates, Bloomington, Indiana has have
> learned about a wiki called Mememoir and its associated implementation in
> the WikiGenes project that I believe is a A Major Realization of The
> Disruptive Scholarship Vision
>
> "Reporting in [the September 2008 issue] Nature Genetics, scientist Robert
> Hoffmann develops the first Wiki where authorship really matters. Based on a
> powerful authorship tracking technology, this next generation wiki links
> every word to its corresponding author. This way readers can always know
> their sources and authors receive due credit.
>
> [snip]
>
> Clear authorship attribution in this next generation wiki makes it also
> possible that users can rate each other based on their contributions. For
> the first time, collaborative publishing can therefore be enhanced with the
> advantages of a reputation system. Hoffmann describes how a self-regulating
> reputation system can help to settle editing conflicts, which were an
> important problem in first generation wikis and used to depend on slow and
> refutable top-down decisions.
>
> The scientific wiki project, introduced in the September issue of Nature
> Genetics and released online today, is the first of its kind and a milestone
> in the Mememoir project. "This release is an important proof of principle,
> but our ambitious aim with the Mememoir project is to revolutionize
> publishing in all of science," says Dr. Hoffmann, "with a knowledge base
> that is open access, interdisciplinary and combines the altruistic
> possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship."
>
> Robert Hoffman / A Wiki for the Life Sciences Where Authorship Matters /
> Nature Genetics / volume 40 / number 9 / 1047 - 1051 /September 2008 /
> Published online 27 August 2008 / doi:10.1038/ng.f.217
>
> Access to sample text from the paper as well as links to the full text of
> the article (for subscribers (?)) in HMTL and PDF format as well as links to
> the WikiGenes site and associated components (e.g., Introduction & Tutorial,
> Sample 'Author' Contribution Page, Sample 'Author' Contribution, etc.) are
> available at
>
>  [ http://tinyurl.com/582jq2  ]
>
> Please share your thoughts/reactions/etc as a Comment on the entry for this
> posting on the Scholarship 2.0 blog
>
> BTW: Recommendations Of Any And All Other Radical Scholarly Wikis
> Like/UnLike Mememoir / WikiGenes Are Most Welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
> gerrymck at iastate.edu
>
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-- 
Marshall Poe
Department of History
University of Iowa
280 Schaeffer Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-2291
www.newbooksinhistory.com
www.memoryarchive.org