Dear members, I subscribed recently to these groups and want to offer a brief introduction, hoping some of you will share my interest.
Academic Common Extensions (ACE) In my contacts with academic developers I have come across many different initiatives from researchers and developers at academic institutions who implement an OpenSocial container for a range of academic projects. Many of these share common ground among each other or across the OpenSocial spec, and this aspect of shared functionality in a certain industry is itself again common for different domains. My objective with ACE is to explore what common solutions I can create that facilitate these common functionalities as Common Extensions. E.g. Typically academic initiatives will facilitate academic profiles, publications, research funding activities, academic applications, application citations (citation standard as an extension of gadget/widget xml), etc. My background I have 10 years Java server side and web application development experience (Yale University, hedge fund, in-game advertising and Microsoft) and recently got involved with OpenSocial. SciVerse is an extension of Shindig for Elsevier products (roughly 25% of the worlds Science, Technology and Medical (STM) publications, the world's largest citation and abstract database with a user base of 15 million global researchers). So with this perspective I hope to get involved in some of the discussion and I would be very excited to hear from people with interest in this angle. Cheers, Remko Caprio Apps for Science Challenge - Elsevier offers $35,000 in prizes and challenges software developers to collaborate with librarians and researchers to develop the best apps and enhance customer experience. See for more details and eligibility http://AppsForScience.com <http://appsforscience.com/> . <http://appsforscience.com/>
