The academic community been slow to catch up on the Web 2.0 hype. Here are some potential uses:
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RSS feeds and email subscriptions for citations. I want to know whenever someone cites my paper.
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ACM/IEEE have a rigid categorization of topics. Its time to allow readers to tag papers. Doesn't mean the categorization is going away or anything (see Tags and Categories are not the same) – its just easier to search using tags and it will be interesting to see how tag based folksonomies emerge. CiteULike is headed in the right direction.
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Revamped websites for ACM, IEEE, Citeseer. All these websites are so old-ish now. No bright colors, no large fonts, no AJAX, omg. Give me some live search, give me RSS feeds for search results, give me RSS feeds for conference proceedings and journals (and get rid of the archaic “Table of Contents Service”).
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GMaps mashups with a decent conference calendar site. I should be able to locate all systems conferences for the next year on a Google map, click on each push-pin to find out hotel information, dates etc.
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What else? (I'll keep updating if I come up with any other ideas)
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You might wish to search through the archives on Savage Minds, where we have had an ongoing discussion about this topic. Be sure to look at our CiteULike posts!
If you haven’t already you might want to follow work being done on a citation microformat.
*@keith*: Thanks for the pointer, I’ll definitely take a look.