Hysterical Comic, and quite valid points about task burden... ROTFL :-) On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Bram Luyten <b...@mire.be> wrote: > I think commenting, analyzed and implemented according to be useful in the > context of an institution wide research repository, could be a serious and > not to be underestimated task. > > The possible dangers get illustrated in this attached phd comic (credits: > http://www.phdcomics.com/ ). > Allowing anonymous commenting is almost a big no-no. > > But thinking about the moderation of these comments: > - will you put this task/burden on the original submitter or on the > collection administrator ? > - who will have the rights to remove comments ? > > Useful questions about the "who will be able to comment" ? > - will you require the person who comments to be an E-person in DSpace ? > - Will you just require some kind of other authentication (openID, googleID, > ...) > > Once comments are in place, it could also be useful to add the possibility > of having a "latest comments" widget on collection or community homepages. > > In any case, I wish you the best of success Stijn and thanks for reaching > out to the community for input on your project. > > best regards, > > Bram Luyten > > @mire - http://www.atmire.com > > Technologielaan 9 - 3001 Heverlee - Belgium > 533 2nd Street - Encinitas, CA 92024 - USA > > http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Mark Diggory <mdigg...@atmire.com> wrote: >> >> Ok... I'll bite. >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Stijn van der Wielen >> <stijnvanderwie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm a student working on a proposal for Google Summer of Code. I would >> > like >> > to add social features to DSpace, I found a topic on the GSoC DSpace >> > Wiki >> > that I'm interested in namely: adding commenting to DSpace. First of all >> > I'd >> > like some more information about this topic. >> > >> > Since I'm guessing adding commenting DSpace won't sufice as GSoC >> > project, I >> > curious what social features the community of DSpace would like to have >> > on >> > DSpace? >> >> Actually, I think it would make an excellent project, I'll add here >> and to all the students planning to submit an application. >> >> Pay attention to the details, its important to show more than just >> coding here, this is about community participation. This year we are >> seriously considering the code getting commited to dspace trunk as a >> requirement for successful completion of the project. >> >> > I also found that PLoS ONE which based on Fedora has several social >> > features >> > like commenting, rating, related articles, metrics, ... >> > >> > http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009840 >> > I'm currently working on my thesis in which I'm developing an API that >> > gathers information like bookmarks, blogposts, tweets, ... from a given >> > paper on Lirias(@mire's DSpace at KULeuven). It might be nice to add a >> > timeline to general info page of a paper, visualizing the popularity >> > over >> > time on these services? >> >> Ratings would also be fitting. Related Articles outside the instance >> would be interesting. Especially if it comes from another service. I >> know Stuart Lewis explored this recently, but encountered issues with >> licensing against certain API. It would be important to consider >> sources in the integration. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> >> -- >> Mark R. Diggory >> Head of U.S. Operations - @mire >> >> http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions >> http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Dspace-devel mailing list >> Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel > >
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