Hey Gang, You might want to check out 'Librarian' http://bioinformatics.org/librarian/ Librarian is a free tool for self-creation of virtual annotated library of PDF articles, designed for small trusted groups, e.g. science labs. Regards, g. On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Dan Bolser wrote: > Srivatsan Pallavaram wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This open source projects, forum like environment, links, papers, etc sounds > > like a great idea to me. I am game! > > > > Srivatsan Pallavaram > > --- > > > I started working on a 'journal magement system' in PHP, > maby this would be a good inital project to start to help > admin. > > The implemented system uploads a journal in pdf / ps > format and then converts the document to text. > > The text of the document is then displayed alongside > a form, to help the user fill in the various fields > > i.e. author, title, date, journal, etc. > > Then there is another form to handle > multiple authors .... > > Thinking about this it is really clunky - we could have > a system to query MEDLINE and parse the reference > tag into a local database of journals. Can we do this with > PHP? I.E. PHP - SOAP? > > I started to implement browsing of the database, but > didn't get very far. I am sure there is plenty of stuff > we could take from 'on line shopping' modules. > > Searching, reader comments and ratings need to be > implemented, as well as a system to link various > journals with various projects / sub sections of > projects. > > In this way you could click on a project, and search > all the associated papers for user comments like > 'a good introduction'. Later you could use the system > to search medline and add a paper to the project. > > We could list the 'most popular read' in each project. > > Can we borrow some of the infra from BMC ? > > Cheers, > Dan. > > >Dan Bolser <dmb@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> said: > > > > > > > >>Great!, and thanks for the responses! > >> > >>I hope you don't mind, but I have opened > >>this up to the BB for discussion. > >> > >>I have worked on and with MS bioinfo projects > >>before, so I have some idea of what is required / > >>what can be reasonably acheived. In this case I > >>doubt the same kind of close collaboration will > >>be possible, where our unit was able to fund students. > >> > >>I know what you meen about getting 'outside ideas', > >>the broader your input the better in all fields > >>I guess. I think it is definatly worth while in > >>the bioinfo community, as this area of science > >>more closly resembles the sofware engineering > >>community than most. > >> > >>I think the best way to procede is to make the > >>projects clearly open source, so ideas, progress and > >>results can be made available to the community. > >> > >>I guess this would work well within the framework of > >>bioinformatics.org, but I have no practical experience > >>of setting up / running open source projects! I.E. I > >>have no clue what kind of admin this involves / where > >>responsibility lies etc. > >> > >>I imagine this should not be too much of a problem if > >>you and other students are willing to work togeher to > >>get the projects off the ground within this framework > >>(maby including university admin where you are?). > >> > >>I will prepare a list of projects which I think are > >>reasonable, and then I guess we should initiate > >>some kind of open discussion on the relevance / > >>previous work in the area / statement of aims and > >>objectives / etc. > >> > >>Is this kind of forum available at bioinfo.org? > >> > >>I would really like to see an open forum for 'modular' > >>project discussion, where people can add relevant > >>papers / link / etc. to form a knowledge base for > >>further work. > >> > >>Anyway, I will first have to run the list by the > >>people in my lab to be sure that they are happy > >>having these ideas made open (as I have a terrible > >>habbit of jumping on good ideas which are not my own!). > >> > >>I will look forward to further comments / suggestions. > >> > >>P.S. do you have a time frame for project selection, as > >>I could send one-at-a-time if that would help? > >> > >>Thanks very much for your idea, > >>Dan. > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > BiO_Bulletin_Board maillist - BiO_Bulletin_Board@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bio_bulletin_board >