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  • From: Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
  • To: Jim Pitman <pitman AT stat.berkeley.edu>
  • Cc: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] refs in literature reviews
  • Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:09:42 -0400

I agree that it's time to take a closer look at how citations are handled.

Right now there are two ways to handle citations:
(1) Add a page for the cited article -- i.e. a summary (perhaps blank), with full metadata in the forms system, e.g. 
http://acawiki.org/Content-Centered_Discussion_Mapping
(2) Add a reference list of selected citations (inline and/or at the end) e.g. 
http://acawiki.org/Discourse-marking_of_concession_and_contrast_in_asynchronous_online_discussion

The disadvantage of (1) is that it generates blank summaries. There's a partial (manual) list here:
http://acawiki.org/AcaWiki:Last_call
I think we have about 130 metadata-only summaries now.

The disadvantage of (2) is that the metadata is not machine-actionable; in fact, to create a summary from a redlink, the user would have to rekey it.

Thoughts?

-Jodi

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman AT stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Taking a look at http://acawiki.org/Literature_Review:Identity
I was surprised to find references like "Nisbett and Wilson (1977)"
without a full citation provided. I would expect at the least a full citation, and better still a hyperlink
to a DOI.
If not, this creates an unscholarly impression, which lowers the quality and value
of the review.  I think acawiki would do well to enforce some citation standards,
or at the very least provide best practices that authors could aspire to. It may be that
one author provides the text, and others chase the full citations and links. But
the provision of adequate references needs to be strongly reinforced by the system/culture.

How to adequately manage references well in a wiki environment is a challenging problem which I'd be glad to
correspond further about.
But not managing them at all seems like an unacceptable solution.

--Jim

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