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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com>
  • Cc: acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] A journalist's Acawiki?
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:10:16 +0800

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:20, Greg Grossmeier <greg AT grossmeier.net> wrote:
>>
>> Came across this today:
>> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=416847
>>
>> Basically, since journalists and scientists think each other are at fault
>> for the crappy reporting on science in popular media, they agreed to
>> create this website where people write plain language summaries of
>> research. It isn't clear from the article who writes the summaries,
>> though each one seems to be signed by a single author.

Greg, did you write the journalist? We should get in the habit of
finding the individuals in the story and getting them onboard.

>> According to the about page, all of the content is available under a
>> CC:BY license:
>> http://journalistsresource.org/about/
>>
>> (They incorrectly stated that the content is "considered to be public
>> domain," unfortunately)

Great...looks like got added to the roadmap...

http://acawiki.org/Roadmap#Content_Gathering

>
>> One other cool thing I noticed is that they are linking to the full text
>> of the articles in at least all of the summaries I looked at.
>>
>> Thoughts? Should we ingest this material into Acawiki?
>
> This looks like a really great project. Less of a community approach, but
> really complementary, yes we should ingest. Hopefully they will improve
> license notice, specify clear attribution, etc. Tried sending one of
> contacts an email from my CC address and copied Greg.

Yes, we should get more info of course. Greg, and others the important
part about these processes is to bring the people onboard to help
and/or introduce them to the process.

Why is this 33GB file getting hosted on perceived terror/pirate
networks? All that type of content should be hosted on acawiki. We
need to be on the tip of everyones tongue WRT to open access academic
research.

What other archives exist? We should come off as the legitimate aaron
swartz process. We should take advantage of the media cloud and be the
openleaks to the threat of the wikileaks.

The way to do that is to connect with people who are in charge of or
are freeing archives. I want to hear some more thoughts on this before
my caffeine rage inspires me to send emails :)

Any other thoughts on places to harvest archives or connect with
people, please put here:

http://acawiki.org/Roadmap#Content_Gathering

Greg, also, what about our work on http://openlibrary.org

I wonder how many of those bibliographic records are for academic
papers? We could connect up with openlibrary and link to their
archives, or records they have online and grow our collection that
way.

I find that sometimes its easier to have stubs or starters for newbies.

Jon

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