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Re: [Connotea-code-devel] further development of Connotea
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From: Paolo M. <pao...@du...> - 2007-06-26 14:58:07
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I'll second the desire for Shibboleth integration with Connotea. I think it would help with adoption if people could use existing authentication credentials instead of creating a separate account. Also, I think you should not limit Connotea's potential target audience to the sciences only. We've been encouraging scholars in all disciplines to consider it for their use here at Duke, as it is potentially just as useful to them as it is to scientists. CiteULike seems to have more of a critical mass among the sciences already, so other disciplines may be the place where Connotea can make a bigger difference. With respect to the question about why Connotea is not being used more, I think it would be useful to have more examples of how it might be used for instruction as well as research. We've been talking to librarians and faculty here about using it as the basis for creation of reading lists for courses or project teams - create a group and/or specific tag in Connotea, add citations to them, and then embed an RSS feed of the tag/group in your Blackboard course site, web page, etc., and the reading list gets updated every time you add something new to Connotea. We've been meaning to write up some tips on how to do this, but haven't had a chance yet. It would be great to have more stuff like this on the connotea.org site - helping people think through and understand the many ways this tool could be used. Thanks... -- Paolo John-Paul Robinson wrote: > I've been a lurker for a while too and have enjoyed this thread and > update. I currently use connotea-code for an internal bookmarking > service. I just wanted to put a vote in for more project transparency. > > I'm interested in contributing to a modification to support the use of > webiso for authnz (Shibboleth to be specific) so that it can be > integrated with our local collaboration environment. > > ~jpr > > Mulvany, Ian wrote: >> Hi Andrew, >> >> I'll start with your last point first. We will be resolving the buggotea >> problem for articles that have identifiers, be those PMID's or DOI's. We use >> an MD5 hash of the URI of a resource as the key identifier in the MySQL db >> for each bookmark, and the way the code is written at the moment makes it a >> very difficult task to change this, but we will be able to at least >> pseudo-merge resources that have the identifiers mentioned. >> >> The first part of your post is very interesting. You are right about the >> development taking place mostly between NPG and Neo-reality. There was a >> slow-down in development at the beginning of this year as we had a change >> over in people. I've joined NPG to work on Connotea, and have been writing >> up a plan for it's development. I'm really keen to encourage as much >> participation as I can. We have moved the live Connotea Code into a Darcs >> repository to simplify distributed development and we should be releasing a >> new OS release within a few weeks. >> >> I think you idea of opening up the plan is also a very good one, and I will >> put up on the Connotea Wiki what we will be planning to do and when, along >> with what we would like to do, but possibly don't have time for, when I have >> the plan finalised. >> >> - Ian >> >> >> On 25/6/07 20:05, "con...@li..." >> <con...@li...> wrote: >> >>> Send Connotea-code-devel mailing list submissions to >>> con...@li... >>> >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/connotea-code-devel >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> con...@li... >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> con...@li... >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >>> than "Re: Contents of Connotea-code-devel digest..." >>> >>> >>> Today's Topics: >>> >>> 1. development questions (Andrew Su) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:39:14 -0700 >>> From: "Andrew Su" <as...@gn...> >>> Subject: [Connotea-code-devel] development questions >>> To: <con...@li...> >>> Message-ID: >>> <190...@EX...> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> I've been lurking on both the connotea mailing lists for a while now and >>> I thought I'd pose a basic question... Is there a public plan for >>> future connotea development? I think it's great that the code is open >>> source, but it appears that coding is still being primarily done by >>> Nature and NeoReality folks (not sure if the latest enhancements are >>> posted to sourceforge though). Is there a desire to open up the >>> development team to include other developers who want to see connotea >>> mature faster? I've been helping to explore thesis project ideas for a >>> couple bioinformatics masters students, and collaborating on connotea >>> may be an interesting prospect. >>> >>> >>> >>> And on another note, does anyone have a good feeling for the reasons why >>> connotea is not being used more? Of course, I'm asking this question >>> not knowing anything about usage statistics, only that I don't know >>> anyone personally (myself included) that uses it in production. My >>> reason? What someone referred to as Buggotea >>> (http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/30/so_connotea_or_citeulike), which >>> really hinders the social aspect of the site. >>> >>> >>> >>> Any thoughts appreciated... >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -andrew >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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