Re: mendelay + official xg tag?

Hi Paolo,

I think that's a good idea. I think there's a private list that only 
contains members that we can send the username and password to.

Paul

Paolo Missier wrote:
> Hi Simon
>
> the concept of "shared collection" in Mendeley seems to defeat the 
> whole purpose of making it open to the world, as the collection 
> appears to be visible to members only. Please correct if I'm wrong (I 
> created one but could not
>
> So I would just create a new prov-xg account and give the password to 
> M&R (Mature and Responsible :-)) volunteer curators. The resulting 
> collection would of course be public.
>
> Comments?
>
> --Paolo
>
>
>
>> Paolo, all,
>>
>> I had a chat with Jan from Mendeley following his presentation.  To
>> answer your points:
>>
>> Collaboration on bibliographies with over 10 people is (secretly)
>> supported, but we have to explicitly request it.  I don't know how big
>> this incubator group is, but I suggested 40 people and they seemed to
>> think that was no problem.  If interested, we should email their
>> support people.
>>
>> Other collaboration tools and global tag search are still under
>> development.  It seems that much of their focus is on data mining and
>> they want to improve the quality of automatically extracted data
>> before making global searches available.
>>
>> I also talked to them about provenance.  They only keep very basic
>> attribution data (which user uploaded a reference and when), but are
>> interested in other cases.  In particular, as they analyse PDF
>> documents, they were interested in provenance of quotations or other
>> information which link documents.  They are focused on building up
>> their user base and improving existing metadata extraction at the
>> moment, so I don't think they'll be able to give much time to
>> providing us with use cases in the next few months, but might be worth
>> exploring later.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon

Received on Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:14:33 UTC