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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Postgenomic comments

Thanks for the comments on Postgenomic. I'm gradually fixing all the bugs and adding new feeds, etc.

If you've got a blog, then the best things to do (in terms of Postgenomic, of course - you might have reason to ignore some or all of the points below) are:
  1. Make sure that your feed contains complete posts, not just excerpts
  2. Make sure that your feed isn't stripped of all tags (this seems to be the case with feeds from some Movable Type installations)
  3. When linking to papers, link to the HTML abstract or fulltext rather than the PDF
  4. List tags in post bodies so that they appear in the feed
  5. If your post is about a paper, mark the anchor tag that links to the paper with a "rev=review" attribute (i.e. [a href="whatever" rev="review"]some paper[/a]
  6. Alternatively, use structured blogging (see Alf's comments on the last post) when writing reviews of papers
Implementing the RSS feeds for top papers, etc. is what I'm working on next. The suggestion to provide tag or blog collection feeds is a good one, thanks!

Linking in to Connotea / Citeulike / Hubmed is another good suggestion... not quite sure how to go about it yet, though.

posted by Stew @ 3:26 PM

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At February 16, 2006 9:37 PM, Blogger Pierre said...

Hi Stew,

You can create 'add to connotea/citeulike'
using the following url's

for connotea (user must have been logged):

<a href="http://www.connotea.org/add?uri=[HTTP-ESCAPED-URL]&button=Look%20Up" target="connotea" title="insert into www.connotea.org"><img src="http://www.connotea.org/connotea_icon.png" alt="insert into www.connotea.org" border="0"></a>

you can also link to connotea

http://www.connotea.org/uri/[URL escaped with MD5]

for citeulike (user must have been logged):

<a href="http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=[HTTP-ESCAPED-URL]&title=Entrez%20PubMed" target="citeulike" title="insert into www.citeulike.org"><img src="http://static.citeulike.org/img/note.gif" alt="insert into www.citeulike.org" border="0"></a>

BTW, I just created a php scrip used to display "treemaps". I used your data as an example at http://www.urbigene.com/treemapphp/

Pierre

 
At February 16, 2006 10:54 PM, Anonymous alf said...

What you're saying by adding rel="review" to an anchor is that the page linked to (the journal article) is a review of the current page. If you were to use rev rather than rel it would make more sense, but it's probably best to try and stick to the hReview syntax.

Linking to the PDFs shouldn't be a problem either - if Postgenomic can recognise one it should be able to recognise the other, so normalising them later to point to the same thing would be better than telling people what to link to.

For the tags, it's best to get them into feeds using dc:subject in RSS or the category/tag/scheme element in Atom. The Universal Feed Parser looks for both of those (and others). rel tags in post bodies works too though.

 
At February 17, 2006 12:02 AM, Blogger marciusmr said...

Hi Stew,

Nice site and an interesting Open-Source alternative to Faculty-1000 ;-)

I would certainlty like to discuss the possiblility of getting some of the information you collect within out TDI/TSL site. You can read about what we intend to do either in the TDI site or at the TSL site. You can also see my own blog where I am/will be narrating the adventure of building such a community.

Best,
m

 

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