- From: Nigam Shah <nigam@stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:06:18 -0700
- To: "'June Kinoshita'" <junekino@media.mit.edu>, "'Joanne Luciano'" <jluciano@predmed.com>
- Cc: "'Jeremy Zucker'" <zucker@research.dfci.harvard.edu>, "'Skinner, Karen \(\(NIH/NIDA\)\) [E]'" <kskinner@nida.nih.gov>, "'Eric Neumann'" <eneumann@teranode.com>, "'public-semweb-lifesci hcls'" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hi June, Thanks for the detailed response. One follow up comment (not for you) below: > Could the scientific community perform this > vetting and editing function itself, a la wikipedia? We have > found that in general, this does not work. Many scientists > refuse to correct or criticize colleagues directly in a public forum. Could there be a mechanism in place that such contributions (taking the time to politely edit, correct/modify content) would have some brownie points with the establishment. I mean right now, what does a person get for "selflessly" editing content? May be its time citations mechanisms start factoring in "blogosphere activity" ... Just a thought. Regards, Nigam.
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