> More generally, a "collective
> intelligence" will emerge most easily if it provides immediate
> INDIVIDUAL benefits, i.e. if the database would be so handy and
> useful that you would enter data for your own use (e.g. maintaining a
> bibliography of papers you read for your PhD thesis), even if it this
> didn't have any collective benefits (e.g. being able to use part of
> other people's bibliographies relevant to your work).
If the database could generate Bibliographies (BibTeX for LaTeX users,
and html or pdf with
a predefined format, easy to copy-paste, for other text-editor users), that would do
the trick...
(well, actually once in BibTeX you can generate with any format you
want with a bibstyle file to a pdf, and then copy-paste, but this could be
automated...)
Best regards,
Carlos Gershenson...
Centrum Leo Apostel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium
http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
"We can control much better how we accept things
than things themselves"
