User:SaulAlbert
Hello, I'm Saul. I am one of Paul ten Have's bibliography elves, and a postdoc in Psychology and Computer Science at Tufts 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
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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:
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:
EMCA news:
