Open Science Initiative

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

Under the ref "Severed axons regrow to target " the link is non-functional due to the addition of an additional http or www...

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said about 1 year ago

i added a function to automatically add http:// if none was added by the user so that should not happen any more.

Justine Lam, Internet Strategist said over 2 years ago

BTW, it looks like I can't add references to groups now. I was able to do that before with myelin repair research

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said over 2 years ago

i actually havent added the ability to add references to groups... just collections for the moment.

Justine Lam, Internet Strategist said over 2 years ago

I think it's good to keep your UX simple and intuitive like it is now. I still don't see much diff between collections and groups.. could probably be one category. Hmmm... will think about it some more. If you have a flow chart that you want to share that'd be awesome.

Justine Lam, Internet Strategist said over 2 years ago

What is the difference between Groups, Collections and References.

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said over 2 years ago

yeah, i need to add more documentation/flow charts that decsribe the functions of things more.

references are basically just that - any item that you want to reference to. webpage, paper, file, image, etc. that reference can then be internally linked to (or 'referenced') by items within opsci.org like topics, collections, people, and groups. the same reference of course can be cited by many different items.

the difference between groups and collections is a little more subtle. i like collections the most. it is a way to aggregate items wihtin opsci.org that you find related (topics, references, even people - see my graduate research collection). its like bookmark folders on steroids. an easy way to aggregate/organize for yourself and then share with others. if someone follows your collection, they will be updated when you add something and stay up to date on what you find (i can see a justine 'social tools for fundraising' colleciton which of course i would follow.

in a way, we could do with just collections but i added groups if people wanted to self organize. groups are more traditional in that you can become a 'member' and create subgroups. i guess groups are meant to be aggregations of people more than just items on opsci.org. for example the 'OpSci.org Web Development Team' group or the 'Urban lab at CMU' group. subtle difference to collections but enough that i thought it was worth making them both and people can use them as needed.

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

Along the lines of the public-private, can there be a minimize tab on the activity stream or some way to visually simplify/remove it once you have viewed the recent activity? Am used to inbox and the bit literacy concept of "being done"...but maybe I'm stuck in email mode.

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

Is there a CURRENTLY a push where the answers to my questions, or replies to MY posts are forwarded to my dashboard? I know we had discussed the plan to have, but now it seems like I have to go to the varied pages to see them, although I do see the new posts under latest topics but not sure/clear if those are just for my comments or I'm being fed all the activity in the things I am tracking.

Which I think highlights my comfort with personal email type things versus facebook or listserv type and the differences between the two, and some of the benefits of this site but also one hurdle to overcome, the personal-public spectrum/gap/question..

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said over 2 years ago

so if you make a topic and you follow that topic than you will get updates in your activity stream if someone comments on it. the default should be setup to automatically follow a topic if you create it but you might have to manually click 'follow' for now if i havent made that already. You shouldnt have to go to the different pages to see updates if you follow them...

The next feature to add is the linking of the activity stream to email, similar to how you get email updates from facebook. except i really want to make it so that the email communication can be BOTH ways (i.e. you can reply to an email and your message will automatically be added to what you replied to, not having to log in the site).

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

In response to your (Armen) below.. (which goes back to the commment on comment thing..C/C for simplicity..) I see what you mean, also perhaps a default setting such that any C on MY C is fed. I don't need to follow the C's of the entire help desk per se. but do want to have any C/C of mine pushed.

C? :)

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

Tried to enter in the following ref under the clnical neuroscience group but the submit button wasn't active
10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819a8052

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said over 2 years ago

so far, you can only add references to: your profile, collections and topics. i havent built in the ability to add references or collections to groups yet but will do that soon.

Matthew Keener, MD said over 2 years ago

Is there a way to invite someone into a group from within the group? i.e. i wanted to invite Armen to the Clinical Neurosciences group but not sure how to do that.

Armen Arevian, MD, PhD said over 2 years ago

that's a good idea. no way of doing that now but that's something that i'd like to add. actually, in general i'm planning on adding ways to invite or share all items with other members. I think i might make a 'dropbox' of some sort on your dashboard that will show these items. So if you find an interesting group or reference you want to share with a person or group, it will be easy to do so...