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My talk about how we can create real digital libraries. Those which not just archive publications, but provide social interactions around books as well. In short: involve the community to build tools for various social interactions around digital publications and for that to be possible publishers should offer APIs.
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PeerLibrary 0.3 is here featuring improved importing, privacy settings everywhere, feedback on publications processing, lists of all entities to navigate, improved invitations, optimized loading time, and many many more fixes and improvements around.
Proactive federation of commons is better than just federation
For PeerLibrary project we had discussions on how much distributed or centralized should we make it. It is a cloud service and centralizing (unifying) user base and content has clear benefits for both end users and developers. End users have better user experience and ease of use, all content is available quickly and easily, and all other users are there, making social experience better. For developers, code can be much simpler and maintenance of only one instance makes it easier to deploy new versions and push security fixes quickly. It is easier to collect statistics and do A/B testing on a large sample. On the other hand, having multiple instances of PeerLibrary distributed around the world makes whole system more robust, specialized instances could be offered, privacy of users increased. Having PeerLibrary distributed would make forkability easier, encouraging more community control of both the project and the content (commons), preventing corruption of the main instance or core project.
I argue that what if we want a distributed system, what we in fact want is what I call "proactive federation" and not simple federation.
Peerlibrary: A Library for Open @ccess
Peerlibrary
PeerLibrary is an open access project developing a collaborative online community where scholars and researchers can read, discover, and discuss various open access literature all within one site. The project is a response to the question as to what comes after open access.
Although open access publications will be opened to the public for gratis access, licensing terms often still restrict the reuse and redistribution of the texts. Scholars and researchers, however, need access to the discussion and discovery surrounding a paper to enhance understanding. PeerLibrary will be a one-stop site where users will not only have access to the original publications but also access to a collaboratively edited layer of knowledge surrounding the publications. Through this integration of multiple sources of knowledge, PeerLibrary will simultaneously enrich the experience of reading research by making it more interactive and open up the possibility for improving publications through peer feedback.
Furthermore, by encouraging more community interaction and involvement, PeerLibrary hopes to stimulate discussion on how we can build better open access resources and tools for the general public, not just scholars and researchers. This will enable us to better understand the breadth of usage for all communities that the open access movement seeks to empower. Ultimately, by analyzing which resources and tools open access enables, we will be able to supply the open access movement with more compelling and unique reasons for the immediate investment in its development, which we believe will improve scientific research and its results. We believe that PeerLibrary will play a vital role in fulfilling the potential of open access to enrich and energize the scientific community, and we will pursue these goals through three specific steps: expediting access to publications, enabling public recordings of analysis and insights on said publications, and encouraging collaboration and openness in the development of science.
PeerLibrary now has a mailing list for general updates. Sign up on the website!
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Hacktivations bring together developers, designers and storytellers to come together and hack for good on software projects that are creating social good through their work. PeerLibrary will be one among 8 projects to hack on this time. Come!
PeerLibrary blog is alive!
PeerLibrary blog is coming to the Internet corner next to you. PeerLibrary is your future one-stop for all your interaction with open access scholarly literature. Still work in progress. Stay tuned. Subscribe to our mailing list or follow us on Twitter. Check its source code.
PeerLibrary, a project I am currently working on, won the award for Highest Impact at Meteor Hackathon 2013. This is how they describe the project:
Peer Library is like Rap Genius for academia that adds crowdsourced notetaking to academic papers. Users import academic papers in PDF format, view papers in-browser from the library, and make inline comments on selected text in each paper. Users can share those comments and view other people's notes in real time. They also implemented searching for papers by title or journal. Team: Mitar, Gheric Speiginer, Tony Chen.
