Teletch=E9a St=E9phane said: > Le jeu 31/07/2003 =E0 20:32, Gary Van Domselaar a =E9crit : >> Hey Gang, >> >> I'm not sure how relevant this is for PHP, but I thought I would menti= on this >> kind of cool idea: >> >> A while back my colleague J.W. Bizzaro suggested a P2P system for dist= ribution >> of scientific articles in PDF (and perhaps other) formats. Users of = the system >> would store their favorite articles locally on their server, but make = them >> accessible to others through the P2P system. The system would allow t= he >> articles to be restricted to certain authenticated groups (eg lab memb= ers). Type >> checking could be enforced so only 'document file formats' would be di= stributed, >> reducing the potential for abuse. A system like this combined with t= he >> features you describe, like automatic field retrieval and population = from >> PubMed would be a very useful system indeed. > > Have alook at refdb, it will allow exactly what you are displaying, the > peer-to-peer solution is nevertheless a bad thing when it is used for a= large > scale exchange, MPAA or RIAA or whatever company/group is involved in t= he > treatment of the problem (they should find a way to distribute their co= ntents more > logically and the peer-to-peer system would stop by itself). > > To be short, linking pybliographic to lyx and refdb is actually a > working system for publication-class paper, but you can imagine much mo= re : on > this database, everyone could add its comments on a specific paper, lik= e this, > you're beginning to have a real database of knowledge based on publicat= ion, and > experience from users (some tricks for > improving scales for examples). You'll begin to use a computer at its r= eal power > ... This would be really great, a discussion group for each paper, including the authors and critics. I have thought the same thing would be usefull for 'open' database system= s, a particular sequence could have its own discussion group debating the sequence annotation. > > Stef > > > > -- > Teletch=E9a St=E9phane <steletch@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr>