Research tools enter the blogosphere
A while back I had posted an entry about the possibility of using blog tools for disseminating research, specifically to create and manage an electronic journal.
It’s exciting to see that arxiv.org has joined the blogosphere. There are some interesting comments there about the use of trackbacks on arxiv.org. Here’s another good posting on the blog as a sharp tool for research; again, this one has a lot of interesting comments. Jacques provides background and further discussion of trackbacks within arxiv.
September 22nd, 2005 at 12:02 pm
[...] I just read (thanks jeff) about how arXiv.org has implemented experimental trackback support. Essentially this allows researchers who maintain online journals to simply reference an abstract like File-based storage of Digital Objects and constituent datastreams: XMLtapes and Internet Archive ARC files (a great article by the way) and arXiv will receive a trackback ping at http://arxiv.org/trackback/0503016 that lets them know someone referenced the abstract. If you’ve followed this so far you might be wondering how the blogging software (wordpress, moveabletype, blosxom, etc) figure out where to ping arxiv.org. Take a look in the source code for the arXiv abstract and you’ll see a chunk of RDF: [...]