On 31 Jul 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Teletch=E9a St=E9phane wrote: > Le jeu 31/07/2003 =E0 20:32, Gary Van Domselaar a =E9crit : > > Hey Gang, > >=20 > > I'm not sure how relevant this is for PHP, but I thought I would mentio= n=20 > > this kind of cool idea: > >=20 > > A while back my colleague J.W. Bizzaro suggested a P2P system for > > distribution of scientific articles in PDF (and perhaps other) formats.= =20 > > Users of the system would store their favorite articles locally on thei= r > > server, but make them accessible to others through the P2P system. The > > system would allow the articles to be restricted to certain authenticat= ed > > groups (eg lab members). Type checking could be enforced so only 'docum= ent > > file formats' would be distributed, reducing the potential for abuse. = A=20 > > system like this combined with the features you describe, like automati= c=20 > > field retrieval and population from PubMed would be a very useful syste= m=20 > > indeed. >=20 > 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 the treatment of the problem (they should find a way to distribute > their contents more logically and the peer-to-peer system would stop by > itself). Is this implementation? Scientists tend to have good internet connections, as compared to biology they are cheap. It is just a matter of getting=20 them to integrate and communicate.=20 > To be short, linking pybliographic to lyx and refdb is actually a > working system for publication-class paper, but you can imagine much > more : on this database, everyone could add its comments on a specific > paper, like this, you're beginning to have a real database of knowledge > based on publication, and experience from users (some tricks for > improving scales for examples). You'll begin to use a computer at its > real power ... >=20 > Stef >=20 > =20 >=20 >=20