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Hey I am a grad student in theoretical physics and love both your concept and realization. I would love a little bit more elaborated tag system. Please go on!

juretriglav 15y ago
Thanks Knowledgesale! I realize the tagging system needs a bit of work, I think especially a follow functionality for tags would be nice. So for example you could follow "antimatter" and have the new papers tagged with "antimatter" automatically come to your activity inbox. It currently works like that for users, papers and comments. So if you follow a user, if that user posts a new paper or comment, you will get an update in the activity inbox in your profile. Is that similar to what you had in mind?
- knowledgesale 15y ago
  Hey, while the subscription feature for new papers sounds like a nice thing, I thought that it can have another useful function. For example, let us assume that you are starting an exciting new project and need to learn about the most prominent papers in the field of "antimatter". One may expect that there are some classic introductory texts, of very high quality that are obvious to people who have been working in the field for a while but are much less evident to outsiders like you. Googling may not always yield direct recommendation for the best text and you need to consult an expert. There are also some well-known in-depth and concise-but-exact-overview texts you need to know about. What if there was a voting system on the best review in this specific field? Such a wikipedia of the most important papers in different subfields would be potentially of great use for everyone. I would love to volunteer for managing of some sections as an experiment if that is of interest to you.
  - juretriglav 15y ago
    I can see how that would be useful, but I fear it is outside of the context of the site and I'm not sure how it would fit. Comments on Science is supposed to be about comments, not about papers themselves, but I guess the jury's still out on that one. The best I can do, that still fits in the context of the site as it is now, is to have a link where you can list papers tagged with e.g. "antimatter", and order them by score. I'll think about your idea and get back to you on that. I would love to have some help as I am a solo-coder-designer-administrator on the site and it's already proved to be a handful. Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated. Edit: I forgot to add a link for a similar site to that you described, but for computer science: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Admittedly, the voting is missing, and it's quite narrow in scope, but my guess is sites like that exist for most fields. Have you not found any for theoretical physics?
juretriglav 15y ago
I moved the site to a new name, it now resides at http://www.tiris.org http://www.tiris.org Tiris is a play on Thales, the first scientist and Iris, messenger of the gods. I added follow tags feature, like you suggested. There is a lot more work to be done, but I think at this point most of it is in getting new users and squashing existent bugs. Maybe one last thing would be the use of the Mendeley API, but that is really one of the last major features I'm seriously considering. If people will like and use the service, then I'll talk to them about what features they are missing.

juretriglav 15y ago

Thanks Knowledgesale! I realize the tagging system needs a bit of work, I think especially a follow functionality for tags would be nice. So for example you could follow "antimatter" and have the new papers tagged with "antimatter" automatically come to your activity inbox. It currently works like that for users, papers and comments. So if you follow a user, if that user posts a new paper or comment, you will get an update in the activity inbox in your profile. Is that similar to what you had in mind?

knowledgesale 15y ago
Hey, while the subscription feature for new papers sounds like a nice thing, I thought that it can have another useful function. For example, let us assume that you are starting an exciting new project and need to learn about the most prominent papers in the field of "antimatter". One may expect that there are some classic introductory texts, of very high quality that are obvious to people who have been working in the field for a while but are much less evident to outsiders like you. Googling may not always yield direct recommendation for the best text and you need to consult an expert. There are also some well-known in-depth and concise-but-exact-overview texts you need to know about. What if there was a voting system on the best review in this specific field? Such a wikipedia of the most important papers in different subfields would be potentially of great use for everyone. I would love to volunteer for managing of some sections as an experiment if that is of interest to you.
- juretriglav 15y ago
  I can see how that would be useful, but I fear it is outside of the context of the site and I'm not sure how it would fit. Comments on Science is supposed to be about comments, not about papers themselves, but I guess the jury's still out on that one. The best I can do, that still fits in the context of the site as it is now, is to have a link where you can list papers tagged with e.g. "antimatter", and order them by score. I'll think about your idea and get back to you on that. I would love to have some help as I am a solo-coder-designer-administrator on the site and it's already proved to be a handful. Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated. Edit: I forgot to add a link for a similar site to that you described, but for computer science: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Admittedly, the voting is missing, and it's quite narrow in scope, but my guess is sites like that exist for most fields. Have you not found any for theoretical physics?

juretriglav 15y ago

I moved the site to a new name, it now resides at http://www.tiris.org http://www.tiris.org Tiris is a play on Thales, the first scientist and Iris, messenger of the gods. I added follow tags feature, like you suggested. There is a lot more work to be done, but I think at this point most of it is in getting new users and squashing existent bugs. Maybe one last thing would be the use of the Mendeley API, but that is really one of the last major features I'm seriously considering. If people will like and use the service, then I'll talk to them about what features they are missing.