[okfn-discuss] [open-science] IPCC report

Wed Oct 2 10:06:49 UTC 2013

With ~9K searches, even a "fully automated" mechanism will be less than a rounding error for Google or Bing. I doubt if anyone there will give a rat's behind, not that I advocate violating any TOS ;-)

On Oct 2, 2013, at 2:31 PM, "Andrew Stott" <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com> wrote:

> This is great.
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> There was a form of this run on data.gov.uk in the early days which
> presented the supposed data page in an iframe within the survey page and
> asked “what do you see?”
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> Although Google terms of service prohibit (as I recall) fully automated
> searches, it should be possible and acceptable for the start page to offer a
> button for the user to press to search Google (or Microsoft/Bing) with a
> pre-filled query, and open the search in a new window or an iframe so that
> the user has at least the search and the form available at the same time.
> That should reduce the copy-and-pasting, and reduce the amount of paper
> copying too.
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> Regards
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> Andrew
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> From: okfn-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:okfn-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
> Sent: 02 October 2013 08:57
> To: Daniel Lombraña González
> Cc: Pierre Chrzanowski; open-science; okfn-discuss
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] [open-science] IPCC report
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> Great,
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> I'll probably try to hack bits of the report today. 
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> The way I see it is something like:
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> * Crowdcrafting is given 9000 references:
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> * Each citizen is given a reference. and asked "can you read this"
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> * they are expected to paste the text into Google or some other search
> engine (maybe Microsoft Academic Search)
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> * they click questions such as "is this paper on a public site?" "is it the
> publisher site?" "can you access the full-text?" "if not, how much does it
> cost?" "please save the URL"
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> and repeat.  It's up to our app to keep track of the results.
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> There's slightly more cut and paste than normal, but many citizens should
> have high motivation. My guess it will take about 0.5-3 mins. We may need
> notes on how to navigate some journals. Their interfaces are awful. 
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> We also need a wiki/mail - e.g. how do we find the cost for Journal X...
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> I think it could be exciting, rapid and very worthwhile.
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> P.
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