Question for you!
Apr. 28th, 2006 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxAcademic and studently sorts! What do you do with papers that other people wrote? You get this fresh shiny article, full of really important information that you're going to use or whatever...
Do you have them nicely organized in folders, by topic and author? Do you just delete them? Are they PDFs? postscript? Word docs?
What if you had something that was kind of iTunes-like, but for papers and slides and stuff, and you could sort and search and organize and have a central place to stash all of them? What if I wrote something like that, and it was cross-platform and easy to use and exciting and awesome?
Do you have them nicely organized in folders, by topic and author? Do you just delete them? Are they PDFs? postscript? Word docs?
What if you had something that was kind of iTunes-like, but for papers and slides and stuff, and you could sort and search and organize and have a central place to stash all of them? What if I wrote something like that, and it was cross-platform and easy to use and exciting and awesome?
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 02:34 pm (UTC)I'm forwarding you my presentation right now. A lot of info is left out because I said it out loud in my presentation, but I'll send you the paper (not due until Monday!) when it's finished, if you want.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:15 am (UTC)Also, it would be the best if you could somehow make it portable across machines...
What kind of functionality does bibtex provide? It would be a jukebox for papers. Maybe you could feed it into chuck to make music.
It is a good atlhacking project.
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:25 am (UTC)(although I think this isn't quite like EndNote, and it'd be easier to use than bibtex, which seems a bit esoteric for most users, me included... maybe it could generate citations and bibliographies too?)
Cross-platform is of the utmost importance! ATLhacking, yes! (sorry I didn't make it out, tonight -- I was mostly asleep for the evening...)
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:21 am (UTC)I would probably have your child.
Conceptually, of course.
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Date: 2006-04-28 10:32 am (UTC)Hard to conceive of such a thing.
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Date: 2006-04-28 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-28 05:24 am (UTC)Love them and leave them. In the recycling bin.
What? I'm ecologically conscious!
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Date: 2006-04-28 06:09 am (UTC)Ooh; I hadn't thought about spreadsheets... this might have to be a much more general tool than I'd considered...
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Date: 2006-04-28 05:52 am (UTC)Right now I'll probably stick to throwing them into a big pile on the floor. :)
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Date: 2006-04-28 06:31 am (UTC)I primarily work with PDFs when I'm researching, with some Word documents thrown in. When I'm doing an experiment, there are spreadsheets and SPSS data files, but that's different and I'm not sure if you'd want to include that kind of stuff.
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Date: 2006-04-28 10:45 am (UTC)Yes.
Following the iTunes analogy, I'd like to have the ability to create a sort of "on the go playlist". While I'm viewing the documents in your program, if I could highlight sections and have them flagged/collected in another document (perhaps in the form of links to the original), that would be nifty. I typically print out all the papers I use for something and take a highlighter to the portions I want, but if there were an easy way to do this without involving dead trees, man...
Would it be possible for the program to identify unique language in each paper and scan your document for that language as a sort of "citation check"? Like, it also checks for common citation formats nearby, but if they're not there it says "This paragraph 70% match for 'Boron Carbide Applications' by Speyer, Robert. Add citation?" and gives you the chance to break out of the check cycle for a moment and add a citation.
I'm just thinking "outloud". Something to collect and organize papers would be wonderful in whatever form it takes.
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Date: 2006-04-28 02:39 pm (UTC)Probably :) I would do that like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_space_model), and probably like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis) too, which put together is just like "compare things using vectors and linear algebra and the blood of newts".
... would you want that if you had to do it as a separate step, though? Anyway, I think I might hold off on this feature, but it's a really interesting idea!
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Date: 2006-04-28 04:15 pm (UTC)RefWorks
Date: 2006-05-31 02:13 am (UTC)