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By a messy ale no gin, Section Wish list
Posted on Tue Mar 11th, 2003 at 10:39:51 PM PST
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The publications that scientist produce are the property of the journals which release them. This information is ripe for data-mining but inaccessible at the best of times.
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| Several movements have been made to get away from the publishers control model. Thus, putting this literary data directly into the hands of data-mining algorithms. I suggest and interim solution that researchers could take until publications become more freely available (because really, as long as you have a review process, these things could be put on websites in pdf the second they are approved, who needs a print copy). I call it Scienzaa. A P2P pdf sharing utility that allows researchers to share the wealth of information that they accrue. If you download several pdfs, might as well keep them in a folder on your computer and then allow the rest of the world P2P access. To faciltate this, the program would have to read pdf. I imagine a slow start but as everyone is reading everything (hopefully). The amount of mining resources the P2P network will gain will increase rapidly. |
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