Scientific article conversations and distributed libraries

Euan Adie's provided two very useful science-related web features recently. The first is in Postgenomic, which now allows you to look up blog citations for a paper using the DOI, which means any journal article can link to relevant blog conversations - here's an example: see the 'Referenced by' section. This is a much better solution to tracking distributed conversations than re-posting articles to a central blog for commenting.

The second is a file storage service for Connotea. Unlike CiteULike, which lets you upload files to attach to each citation and stores them on a central server, this uses a Greasemonkey script and the box.net API, making the file storage service almost independent of Connotea (though it still uses a central service to place the files on box.net). A tag on each Connotea item stores the box.net file ID, and Greasemonkey writes the links to upload and download files into the page.


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Hi,

I used to use this handy script (Connotea-boxnet mashup) but unfortunately I cannot find it again after upgrading to my new PC. The original script at
http://neutron.nature.com/concite/boxnet.user.js is no longer there

Thanks,
Mohsen

Posted by: mohsen on April 26, 2007 1:18 AM

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