[Asis-l] A Radical Scientific Wiki: The Time Is Here !!!

[gerrymck]

Colleagues/

As some may be aware, I have long proposed The Wiki as The Next
Scholarly Communication/Publishing Environment

Gerry McKiernan. "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
| Re(Use) / Re(Mix) / Re(New)." Invited keynote presentation delivered
at Transforming Practice for An Authentic Future, 3rd International
Conference on Plagiarism, June 23-25, 2008, Northumbria University,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Director' Cut version self-archived at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/IPC2008-DC.ppt  (30 August
2008)

"Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities," Invited
presentastion delivered at Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for
the Future. Module 2: Technological Developments: Threats and
Opportunities for Libraries, Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic
Resources BV (TICER), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands,
August 23, 2005. Self-archived at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/TICER2005.ppt    (30 August
2008)

Thanks To Bernie Sloan, Sora Associates, Bloomington, Indiana has have
learned about a wiki called Mememoir and its associated implementation
in the WikiGenes project that I believe is a A Major Realization of
The Disruptive Scholarship Vision

"Reporting in [the September 2008 issue] Nature Genetics, scientist
Robert Hoffmann develops the first Wiki where authorship really
matters. Based on a powerful authorship tracking technology, this next
generation wiki links every word to its corresponding author. This way
readers can always know their sources and authors receive due credit.

[snip]

Clear authorship attribution in this next generation wiki makes it
also possible that users can rate each other based on their
contributions. For the first time, collaborative publishing can
therefore be enhanced with the advantages of a reputation system.
Hoffmann describes how a self-regulating reputation system can help to
settle editing conflicts, which were an important problem in first
generation wikis and used to depend on slow and refutable top-down
decisions.

The scientific wiki project, introduced in the September issue of
Nature Genetics and released online today, is the first of its kind
and a milestone in the Mememoir project. "This release is an important
proof of principle, but our ambitious aim with the Mememoir project is
to revolutionize publishing in all of science," says Dr. Hoffmann,
"with a knowledge base that is open access, interdisciplinary and
combines the altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit
authorship."

Robert Hoffman / A Wiki for the Life Sciences Where Authorship Matters
/ Nature Genetics / volume 40 / number 9 / 1047 - 1051 /September 2008
/ Published online 27 August 2008 / doi:10.1038/ng.f.217

Access to sample text from the paper as well as links to the full text
of the article (for subscribers (?)) in HMTL and PDF format as well as
links to the WikiGenes site and associated components (e.g.,
Introduction & Tutorial, Sample 'Author' Contribution Page, Sample
'Author' Contribution, etc.) are available at

 [ http://tinyurl.com/582jq2  ]

Please share your thoughts/reactions/etc as a Comment on the entry for
this posting on the Scholarship 2.0 blog

BTW: Recommendations Of Any And All Other Radical Scholarly Wikis
Like/UnLike Mememoir / WikiGenes Are Most Welcome.

Regards,

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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