[open-science] Publishing curated email lists

Thu Jun 16 15:33:00 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Josh Nicholson <jnicholson at thewinnower.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I wanted to reach out to this group about a potential idea that I had
>> regarding publishing emails—yes, emails.  Recently, I have received a
>> barrage of emails on another listserv (OSI) and while they are somewhat
>> annoying in the sense they clog my inbox, they are highly valuable in terms
>> of content.  In short, I am interested in seeing if members of this
>> listserv may wish to have their public emails curated and published on the
>> Winnower in more readable publication-like format—a storify of emails, if
>> you will.
>>
>> We’ve done something like this in the past with a panel talk
>> https://thewinnower.com/papers/1468-when-publishers-aren-t-getting-it-done and
>> I think we could do something like this going forward.
>>
>> It’s just an idea at this point but if people are interested I can go
>> ahead and curate any threads they think may be interesting to show you how
>> it would look.  I am open to other ideas/suggestions too!
>>
>> Would love to know your thoughts!
>>
>>
Josh,

I am sure this would be useful but it will depend on finding the "right"
email threads. I would expect that a lot of work will have been done in
this - although I don't know details. How are you going to find the right
threads? and it will depnd very much on the discipline of the posters -
many include huge previous trails of replies to replies whereas some
(including me) try to excise these.

Are you expecting this to be done by humans? or machines? or both. Machine
analysis detecting the sentiment of the replies and summarising them will
be hard... Not impossible, but not easy.

 P.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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