Core piece of an initial system we’re going to try as an experiment followed by a survey
- EEB is our audience
- “Products” (works in progress) with commentary
- System is expandable to multiple product types
- Commentary and products are associated with users
- Users provide ratings for products and each others’ comments
- Revision & versioning part of the system
- Meta-data for papers to enable discovery
- Information is able to be exported to a new platform
- We should have a closed beta first
The Needs we feel this addresses with this
- works in progress/preprints
- replicated/null/results/short notes/errata
- interactive commentary
- experiment with peer review
Having EEB as a focused initial audience is definitely the right approach. But also, since nothing we’re talking about is at all specific to EEB, if successful this thing can naturally extend outward.
I would extend metadata to all products, not just papers.
In the needs bit, it also adds smaller lpus/and or smaller acceptable granules of information.