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Library Groupware in 15 Slides mentions the ScholarsBox (among other things).
Last week, Dan Chudnov and I spoke on the phone -- and it has been on my list to brainstorm about what excited me about the conversation and where we might go next. I first came across Dan's work in January when SteveToub told me about Library Groupware for Bibliographic Lifecycle Management. He recently sent me Library Groupware in 15 Slides. I also sent Dan a copy of the latest version of the ScholarsBox client to let him take a close look at our interface.
Both Dan and I think that there are great opportunities for collaboration on what I would call Scholar's Box related matters. Dan comes a library perspective and talks about library-oriented groupware, groupware to allow the management of collections. The vision that Dan has been articulating has some striking resemblances to what we are attempting to realize in the Scholar's Box. See for example, a Vision Statement. I'm gratified that the ScholarsBox is mentioned and that Dan uses the architectural diagram that I created to describe a flow of content that the ScholarsBox is aimed at facilitating.
We're thinking about concrete ways to collaborate. Let's see whether I can brainstorm some things that we can work on -- either just the two of us or in the context of a larger collaboration. (Useful to consult the list of ideas for working together that Dan showed in his slides.) An idea that comes to mind is to pull together the I did for ScholarsBox/BookInfoPrototype, BruceDarcus's bibliographic work, especially as it relates to OpenOfficeOrg, and unalog.
Is CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers an analog to unalog?
