Re: connotea useful to package?
I've lightly used CiteULike to organize a personal bibliography.
However, it only exists as a web service, which makes me nervous about
the data (yes, even despite the pious FAQ).
I have had personal correspondence with Richard Cameron, the citeulike
'author', and trust him and his motives. Take that with a grain of salt,
as a personal comment from me, but I've seen no behavior that I even
consider 'questionable' in the ~4-5 years that I've been observing the
project's development.
Much of Richard's reluctance to simply allow people to 'snatch' the data
out comes from Nature Publishing Group - the Connotea people - not
communicating well and perhaps implying that they (NPG) might lock the
data up in an inaccessible way.
[The last thing we need is another 'closed' webofscience copy...]
I recently learned about a similar software called Connotea (see e.g.
http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/03/30/so_connotea_or_citeulike) which is
available under the GPL.
Any quick thoughts about whether Connotea is useful enough to package
for Debian?
useful, certainly. great for lab groups who want a "service" to manage
their citations and papers.
I think this would be an interesting adjunct to projects like
koha/greenstone, jabref, and other citation managment / bibtex tools.
Packages might promote some more interop just by existing, to be honest.
What will you call the resulting packages? The code states that it is
gplv2, but then there's the whole block of text on the
www.connotea.org/code page instructing folks not to brand things as
connotea...
it strikes me that it might be useful, in packaging, to "sanitize" the
code and rip all the branded stuff out. just don't ship it. that's what
they're asking for, it seems.... kind of like firefox/mozilla.
--elijah
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