User:SaulAlbert

Hello, I'm Saul. I am one of Paul ten Have's bibliography elves, and a computer science / engineering PhD student at Queen Mary University.

I made this wiki. If you have any questions, ask me on this page, or you can always find me at http://saulalbert.net

Scratchpad

This is my scratchpad for ideas and issues relating to emcawiki.net - if it gets big and unwieldy I'll move it somewhere else but for now it's just a dumping ground for random wiki ideas and other stuff.

Ideas (on todo list for next version)

Problem with browsing the database by author

User:Clair-AntoineVeyrier pointed this out: it's a PITA searching for authors in the EMCA bibliography database.

I'm not really happy with the bibliography database browsing system. It's a compromise at the moment - the interface and the entries are not fully generated by the wiki - they are actually generated by the bibtex file the wiki exports each time we add something. That's why it takes 5 minutes to create a new entry.

However, for the moment, you can actually do something like this quite easily:

http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/browser.php?author=Schegloff&bib=emca.bib

That will give you all Schegloff's publications.

I have been experimenting with creating author wiki pages that use this feature:

eg:

http://emcawiki.net/Emanuel_A_Schegloff http://emcawiki.net/Charles_Antaki

So that if someone clicks on the links that appear in the right hand side of the entry, they get taken to this 'author page', but I'm not sure about how these ought to work yet...

For the next version of the wiki I'd definitely like to make the generation of lists and references all wiki-native, that would mean we could more easily switch between APA / MLA formats etc.

Abstracts should be in BibTex and database

When we search for an item in the "browse the entire database", the abstract do not appear in the bibtex file. This has different implications:

• When downloading bibtex, the abstract is not included.
• People do not necessarily know that abstracts are associated with items (unless they access through the twitter link).
• If they know, they have to discover that "edit" brings to the item URL which displays the abstract.
• An [abstract] item showing more when clicked (like when [bibtex] is clicked) would be nice to have

CFP/News idea

We should have an automated list of CFPs, conferences, workshops etc. This is something I want to work one when I have some time, these are some notes towards getting that working.

Looking at CFP wiki's entry form,they use the following categories when inviting people to

• CFP type: (select box)
  • Conference
  • Workshop
  • Journal
  • Other
• Full title: (text)
• Short title: (text)
• Year (YYYY)
• Location
• From (yyyy mm dd)
• to (yyyy mm dd)
• Abstract due (yyyy mm dd)
• submission deadline (yyyy mm dd)
• notification due (yyyy mm dd)
• final version due (yyyy mm dd)
• web link (url)
• categories (tags)

This should work fine for EMCA wiki too, and should enable a dynamic list of both conferences, workshops and other events, along with a calendar view or iCal export for google calendars or other calendar apps.

CFP text

DOI / ISBN / url to Bibtex

It's a PITA to download a bibtex file, then upload it to the wiki, it would make much more sense to just enter a DOI / ISBN / url and see if we can get structured data straight into the wiki. This shouldn't be hard at all, there are lots of libraries that support this:

• https://github.com/manticorp/DOI-to-Bibtex
• https://github.com/davidagraf/doi2bib/

It's not at all clear to me what the most graceful way to implement this would be in MediaWiki / Semantic Forms (there are probably internal data retrieval tools that could do this nicely), but it's definitely something I'd like to add to the next version of the wiki.

Possible implementation options:

• Use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms/Creating_query_forms to make a query form
• Use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:External_Data to retrieve data from:
• http://search.crossref.org/
• or use http://www.doi2bib.org/

Known issues with the wiki

• Moved known issues with the current version of the wiki to the Known Current Emcawiki Issues page.

Copy paste emails

It's hard to add your first entry the most frequent mistake is with page names

Dear X,

I just saw you added your first bibliography entry 
to the EMCA wiki - thanks! 

I just edited it and moved it to this page:

http://emcawiki.net/AuthorYYYY

I did this because you had called the page "XXXX" - which 
has a few problems: firstly, you have multiple publications,
so we need a unique bibliographical key for each entry
(for example: Author2014 / Author2014a / Author1999 etc.). 

Secondly, because the bibliography is also machine readable
(using BibTex), we can't have spaces or special characters 
(!@$%# etc.) in the page names. Therefore, in your subsequent 
entries, please use the following format for page names:

FirstauthorlastnameYYYY 

any subsequent entries by the same first author could be: 

FirstauthorlastnameYYYYa

There are more tips and a full manual about adding entries
and the quirks of the site - such as it is - here: 
http://emcawiki.net/Adding_bibliography_entries

Thanks, and again - thanks for your first contribution! 
It takes a while to get used to, but I hope once you've 
added a few entries it will make more sense. 

Best,

Saul and the EMCA wiki team.

This is the email I send out to people who offer to help:

Thanks very much for getting in touch. I've created you an account and
you should soon receive an automatic email allowing you to set a password.
You should then be able to add publications to the bibliography.

Feel free to email the admin group if you are having any trouble - it's
always useful to have feedback on the system as it's in development.

You'll find more information on adding items to the bibliographies here:
http://emcawiki.net/Adding_bibliography_entries

And if you check out the bibliography page here:
http://emcawiki.net/EMCA_bibliography_database you'll find a link to all
the current bibliographies we need help with. Just click the
'discussion' tab on top of each bibliography page and you'll see what
needs doing!

Thanks again for offering to contribute, and all the best,

Saul and the EMCA wiki team.

This is a slightly more detailed email inviting people to participate in specific projects

In terms of how to proceed, I have created you an account and you should now
receive an automated email inviting you to choose a password. It's possible
that this will end up in your spam folder -  so have a look. If you don't get
this email, let me know and I'll look into it.

Once you have an account, you can add and edit wiki pages by using the 'edit'
buttons on the top of each page. If you're not familiar with wikipedia-style
editing, you might want to read a quick guide.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages

In terms of current projects on EMCA wiki, there are three major ones at the
moment. The first is importing and digitizing the bibliography from Paul's
EMCA_news site. There's a summary of the status of that project here:

http://emcawiki.net/index.php?title=Static_EMCA_bibliographies

The second is continually adding newly published bibliography entries or
entries that were missing from Paul's original bibliographies. You can see how
to do that here: http://emcawiki.net/Adding_bibliography_entries. Once per
month we email the admin group (http://emcawiki.net/The_EMCA_wiki_Admins) to
review new entries and Paul helps us to categorize them into one of a number of
specialised bibliographies. We could always use help with both adding and this
editorial job.

The third is updating and cleaning up the content that was imported from Paul
ten Have's website. This is an ongoing project and we haven't got a timescale
for it yet. If you want to help with that, it's just a matter of ad-hoc
reading, improving, editing and creating in the wiki way.

If you have a new project, bibliography, or some new pages you'd like to start
- you're also more than welcome to just have a go!

Thanks again for getting in touch, and welcome to the wiki!

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Feeds

Just to remind myself:

EMCA new pages:

http://emcawiki.net/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BCategory%3ABibEntry%5D%5D&po=%3FBibTitle%0D%0A%3FBibAuthor%0D%0A%3FBibYear%0D%0A&eq=yes&p%5Bformat%5D=feed&sort%5B0%5D=Modification+date&order%5B0%5D=ASC&sort_num=&order_num=ASC&p%5Blimit%5D=50&p%5Boffset%5D=0&p%5Blink%5D=none&p%5Bsort%5D=Modification+date&p%5Border%5D%5Bdescending%5D=1&p%5Bheaders%5D=hide&p%5Bmainlabel%5D=-&p%5Bintro%5D=&p%5Boutro%5D=&p%5Bsearchlabel%5D=further+results&p%5Bdefault%5D=&p%5Bsep%5D=%2C+&p%5Btemplate%5D=&p%5Bcolumns%5D=1&p%5Buserparam%5D=&p%5Bintrotemplate%5D=&p%5Boutrotemplate%5D=&eq=yes

EMCA news:

http://emcawiki.net/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Announcements-5D-5D/-3FAnnShortSummary/-3FAnnWebLink/format%3Dfeed/limit%3D300/sort%3DModification-20date/order%3Ddescending/mainlabel%3D-2D/title%3DEMCAwiki-20Announcements/description%3DLatest-20announcements-20from-20EMCAwiki.net/offset%3D0