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This is such an awesome idea. You should seed the site with lots of papers. Look at the Mendeley API to see if you can leverage it in some way.
by revorad 15y ago
This is such an awesome idea. You should seed the site with lots of papers. Look at the Mendeley API to see if you can leverage it in some way.
- juretriglav 15y agoThank you revorad! Seeding the site was my initial idea, as I wanted to have a database of all papers in all publications, that would be just one-click away and you could comment on them instantly. As I discovered that Google Scholar has no API (I wanted to use it for the initial idea), I switched to user-submitted papers, with data automatically filled in by DOI. There are only a couple of steps required to submit a new paper and I don't have to deal with a lot of different APIs to seed the site (e.g. PubMed, Mendeley). Also since the site's scoring algorithm is depended on submission time I'm not sure how I would implement scores if my database was pre-filled. Thanks for your feedback! Edit: How could I have missed Mendeley API? There is also a competition for the best app, that I think Comments on Science could participate in, if Mendeley API is somehow used. Thanks!