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Great job! I had thought of building something like this before. Some ideas I'd toyed with were: - A tool for annotation so that people could comment on specif
by kiliantics 9y ago
Great job! I had thought of building something like this before. Some ideas I'd toyed with were:
- A tool for annotation so that people could comment on specific portions of papers. This could help new researchers in a field to more quickly understand the different broader contexts in which a result can be interpreted, or the technical limitations of a given method and how that should be considered when say using the results to motivate other work.
- An option for some form of anonymised commentary, so that people could voice their views on a particular work without fear of reprisal. I think this would be amazing for non-tenured academics to exert some form of power in the community, if a platform like this were to take off. Of course, it would make for potentially very messy and difficult to moderate discussions.
- throwaway080383 9y agoThe first thing you mentioned, annotations, or maybe even inline Q&A/discussions, was my dream in grad school (math). I imagined something like a separate MathOverflow for each paper. The basic problem is that I was constantly finding myself struggling with a tricky part of some paper from the 70's ("Why is this sentence true??"), and I knew many students before me had struggled with the same section, but there was no way for one really great expositor to clarify it, get upvoted, and be done.