Science and technology article collection

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I come across massive amounts of science and technology related articles on a daily basis. Far too many to post even a fraction of them on here. A mod could even turn it into a sticky as well.

How about, we create a thread for collecting the latest news, then anything worth discussion can always be posted on a thread of its own as well.

This way it is easier to browse through lots of articles as a reference point and more of a chance for people to see articles some people might eventually decide against posting.

What do people think?

Sure, and in the context of academic or patent work it's called a literature review. Ph.D. graduates have to do it at least once. I'm up to my eyeballs in science, but it's one of the better jobs one can have and because I do it for a living I wouldn't just randomly start a collection without having a particular reason for doing so. Leisure for me must be something other than science. I don't know how to answer the question.

Awesome at least there is somebody else on board.

The important thing to remember will be "No discussion, just the information"

It is worth doing if somebody maintains a cleaned-up, static reference page. There is no structure on WP to maintain an edited page. A forum or sticky topic here would just attract masses of tedious fluff.

Would have to be a team effort then dont ya think? i can collect info and keep it fairly organised but it would be limited to what i can find myself.

You need to host some kind of single point of reference wiki or static html page somewhere, to which the team would have access for maintenance, possibly with links into WP discussions of specific papers or topics. I have downloaded and bookmarked quite a few topic areas that interest me, and will gladly write them up in a suitable format.

I don't know whether the WP blog structure would work as a simple solution - individuals could be charged with maintaining a topic area, editing a single blog entry with new material. One blog entry could be used as an index to all the others. The WP markup has enough pretty formatting and automatic linking to work. You might want to have any contributions signed over as Creative Commons or public domain, so that anyone can take over an unmaintained topic without being accused of copyright theft.

Can you go into a bit more detail with that please?

If a project like this is to work as a community-driven, community-owned work, then there should be a mechanism for defusing arguments about personal ownership of input, for instance if an enthusiastic person creates a comprehensive collection or if one person takes over an un-maintained section. It can be very destructive if one person accuses another of stealing their work, or an organisation wrangles ownership and control of a successful information project.

Creative Commons is one kind of licence that allows other people to re-use the work in any way they like, with an attribution to the original author(s). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Sounds complicated to set up to me.

Do people have ideas of the best place or best way to set it up where anyone can contribute and where we can all contribute?