YouASTRO: A web-based bibliography management system with distributed comments and rating features for astrophysicas ADS papers | Fabrizio Bocchino ( INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo)

Calendar
When:
22 September 2011 @ 15:30 – 16:30
2011-09-22T15:30:00+02:00
2011-09-22T16:30:00+02:00
Where:
Aula OAPA
Cost:
Free
Aula: Seminario

We will present a working prototype of YouASTRO (www.youastro.org), a web-based BibTeX-compliant reference management software (RMS) for astrophysical papers in the SAO/NASA ADS database. It also includes as a main feature the concept of distributed paper comments and ratings. Community-based reviews and comments, and more in general participatory information sharing, have proven to be a very effective way to spread the knowledge in many fields, and they are the focus of Web 2.0 applications. In this demo, we will show how to create and manage a BibTeX personal library to use for citations in our own articles and how to share comments on ADS papers. We will briefly discuss what could be the advantages and drawbacks of such a system being widespread adopted by the astrophysical community for its scientific literature.