User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/COASP 2010/Background

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Do journals provide sufficient contextualization for research?

• For technical reasons, publishing was historically a separate step, performed about once per iteration of the research cycle

• Publishing every relevant bit of information immediately at each step is technically feasible now, and the remaining hurdles are cultural ones.

• Wikis allow for systematic linking and thus enhanced contextualization (sidenote: some have argued that links are distracting)

• Overview of the evolution of wikis and wiki-like environments

Mentions MediaWiki plugin for Wordpress

Etherpad

Google Docs

• Dear Scientists, Stop Duplicating Work