[Sigia-l] API? We don't need no steenkin API (was: Google Scholar vs Citeseer and others)

[Pierre Abel]

>Tangent: (Because at the moment I'm trying to figure out for the world's
>largest financial info/data/analysis provider how to present its massive,
>massive reservoir of stuff appropriately for the 21th century, this is fresh
>in my mind.)
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>The first paper has zero/nada/nil pictures, charts, sketches or anything
>visual whatsoever. And its about something architectural and, ultimately,
>visual. The second one has the absolute minimum, of the most rudimentary
>quality. Again, notice the subject matter.
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I don't want to be an advocate for researchers but I've encounter  this 
problems during my Phd (related to your subject since it was on massive 
information visualization): when you want publish a paper, you've got a 
limited size for your article. So you have to balance between pictures 
and text.. And when you know that the selection of  article are based on 
the text, you have no choice but put more text (if you want to be 
published!)
Anyway, nowadays authors normally offer a link to their website where 
you can see a bunch of pictures/movies that couldn't been included in 
the paper. But if the paper is too old (or the site has been removed), 
it is really frustrating as you have noticed.

>So what?
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>If researchers (IA or otherwise) are genuinely interested in building
>bridges, to the rest of the universe, something's gotta happen with their
>ability to format their findings and present their conclusions.
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Even if the articles are reviewed before being published, the problem of 
quality or even credibility exists (for fun you can check how Alan Sokal 
succeed in publishing a "hoax" paper: 
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/stt/stt/sokal.htm )....And also there is a 
kind of research that is very far from the rest of universe (i.e very 
very academic)...It is difficult to exploit this kind of research 
directly in the industry.

Pierre

>I'd rather have a root canal.
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>Ziya
>Nullius in Verba 
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