[open-science] Publishing curated email lists

Thu Jun 16 15:47:54 UTC 2016

Was hoping to start manually.  Maybe members of this listserv know of a
thread that curating would be worthwhile.  Having just joined the list, I
am not the one to say (yet).  I like to start things very basically so at
this point think everything should be done manually.  In the future, I have
ideas on how this could be automated somewhat.

Is there a thread that you find particularly informative?

best
Josh

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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
> +44-1223-763069
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/attachments/20160616/7f5e04ef/attachment-0003.html>