A Report on Connotea
Ian Mulvany, Connotea Product Development Manager,
Nature Publishing Group

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Attention

Nature Web Publishing
group

Nature Web Publishing
group
OTMI

Second Life Nature

History behind
Connotea
Deliciously scientific
Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, Martin Flack (Neo Reality)

Social Bookmarking
• del.icio.us founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003,
acquired by Yahoo in Dec, 2005
• Key features of this service:
• save bookmarks online
• add tags
• simple url structure to retrieve data via tags
• tags provide folksonomy over bookmarks
• many users allow searching links by popularity

Examples of del.icio.us url’s
http://www.del.icio.us/popular/Elsevier

http://www.del.icio.us/popular/

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time
Popularity

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time
Popularity

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time
Popularity
Poster

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time
Popularity
Poster

http://www.del.icio.us/tag/conference Title
Time
Popularity
Poster
Tags

Academic Bookmarking
Like del.icio.us but with::
Citation data
Private groups/posts
Import/Export for article writing

Title

Title

Title
Date

Title
Date

Title
Author Date

Title
Author Date

Title
Author Date
PMID/DOI

perl
mod_perl
Template Toolkit
MySQL
Open Source, GPL2.5 v 1.8.1
web1.75 application

Amazon.pm DOI.pm LivingReviews.pm
PLoS.pm RIS.pm SpamDNSBL.pm
autodiscovery.pm
BibTeX.pm Dlib.pm NASA.pm
PMC.pm Scitation.pm Springer.pm
blog.pm
Blackwell.pm Highwire.pm NPG.pm
PNAS.pm Self.pm Wiley.pm
ePrints.pm
BmcPdf.pm Hubmed.pm OUP.pm
Pubmed.pm Simple.pm arXiv.pm

http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany
http://www.connotea.org/users/tag/scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/science
http://www.connotea.org/user/IanMulvany/tag/
science2.0+citation

http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany
http://www.connotea.org/data/users/tag/scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/
scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/
science
http://www.connotea.org/data/user/IanMulvany/tag/
science2.0+citation

http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany
http://www.connotea.org/rss/users/tag/scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/scifoo
http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/
science
http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/IanMulvany/tag/
science2.0+citation

- User
- Date
- Bookmarks - DOI/PMID
- URI - Citation Data
-Tag
- Edit
- Free Text Search

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is
write a wrapper in their favorite language”

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is
write a wrapper in their favorite language”
Java

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is
write a wrapper in their favorite language”
Java
Python

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is
write a wrapper in their favorite language”
Java
Python
Perl

“After you make an API, the first thing people want to do is
write a wrapper in their favorite language”
Java
Python
Ruby
Perl

RDF HTML
RSS

images via flickr: Barry Hennessy, Hettie McFarlane, wallyg

“What I keep hearing is, how can we impact factorize open science.
Well, the answer is, you can't. Let's stop trying to find some magic
algorithm whereby a machine tells us what quality science is. What's
completely mad to me about this is that we already have processes to
assess science quality. Every time you review a new student, every
time you look at a grant proposal, heck, even on the infamous tenure
committees and research assessments, a group of humans looks at a
portfolio of existing or proposed work, and decides whether it is good
enough.
So if I may modestly propose, let's continue to do that, and no one other
than journal publishers should ever look at impact factor numbers
again. Arise, qualitative assessment, begone quantitative nonsense.”
- Richard Akerman

Citation Analysis?

People have personal search algorithms, some
good some bad
Social bookmarking sites are often write only
By making collections public and tagged you
provide a resource
For example I read what my boss is tagging
This is kind of an orthogonal use case for these
kinds of services, even before we add in more
complex algorithms

Collaboration
Serendipidous discovery
Storage
Manage (tagging)
Recommendations
(algorithmic)
Don’t want to give a false
positive

3rd Party Tools

http://mekentosj.com/

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://baoilleach.blogspot.com/2007/06/add-to-connotea-from-journal-pages.html

http://apps.similette.com/multiguise/
http://www.itfutures.ed.ac.uk/robert_muetzelfeldt_synopsis.htm

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED
http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber
http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED
http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber
http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:MrED
http://www.connotea.org/wiki/EntityDescriber
http://i9606.blogspot.com/2007/08/connotea-semantic-web-ed.html

http://www.connotea.org/
blog
http://www.connotea.org/wiki/
ConnoteaTools

Stats

Total number of verified email accounts
Number of people adding bookmarks

Total number of tags
Total number of unique tags

11032

Current library usage

OpenId Better Tagging
OpenAuth Interface Interface
OpenSocial More parsers
API Extension Recommender 2.0
Nature Integration Citation Manager

Graph Analysis?
Text
Text
Text

Where’s my
Bibliography?
COINS extension?
ATOM feed?
SSE?
OAI-ORE CIO
or Something entirely new with a new
acronym to contend with?

The End

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