- From: Yolanda Gil <gil@isi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 07:36:35 -0700
- To: pmissier@acm.org
- Cc: Simon Miles <drsimonmiles@gmail.com>, public-xg-prov@w3.org
Paolo: Sounds good. BibBase just won honorable mention in the Open Track of the Linked Data Triplification Challenge :) So we would be really using Semantic Web technology then! Yolanda On Sep 3, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Paolo Missier wrote: > Simon, > I completely agree that having non-unique references to papers in > the Mendeley corpus wont' help anyone. I think DOIs should be used > as the authoritative reference whenever possible, and "any" link to > the Mendeley entry for the paper should be added as a convenience > to provide quick access to the PDF, if that's associated with the > entry, and to a reference. But if this is to be used by authors who > use the references in their papers, then I think a bibtex entry > would be important -- and that doesn't seem to be available. > > A while ago Yolanda proposed to use BibBase (http:// > www.bibbase.org/) as a way to publish our collection as a whole on a > Web site, and I think it is an excellent idea as it can be done > using the bibtex file that Mendeley generates behind the scenes, > exposing all its entries for each paper (I have happily used to > publish my own publications) > maybe something we can briefly touch upon in the call? > > Cheers, -Paolo > > > On 03/09/2010 11:42, Simon Miles wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been working on the citation links for the state of the art >> discussed last week, and have a few comments about linking to >> Mendeley >> from the Wiki, as it may affect how we cite in any report we put on >> the Wiki. >> >> We said in the telecon that the reason for linking to the articles in >> Mendeley (rather than DOI, for example) was to allow people to know >> about and use our Mendeley collection. However, if you click on the >> Mendeley paper links, the pages you reach don't have any mention of >> our collection, so I'm afraid this won't work. For example, try >> clicking on the links in the News Aggregator state of the art - a >> Mendeley page on the paper is reached, but no mention that the paper >> is in our collection. >> >> Also, there are multiple URLs per paper, depending on how you find >> the >> article: you get one if you find it through browsing our collection, >> another if you find it through browsing Mendeley's own >> categorisation, >> and a third if you search on the paper title, with apparently no way >> to translate one to another. I believe the third kind is used in the >> News Aggregator state of the art, which is fine except that, as >> Daniel >> said, not all articles in our collection are found on searching, so I >> can't use it consistently for my scenario's state of the art. >> >> Maybe I'm just missing something in my use of Mendeley, but I suggest >> that linking to the papers on Mendeley from the Wiki may be too much >> trouble for too little gain. >> >> Thanks, >> Simon >
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