--=-LBdvMygHP4khTqM1fvUg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le jeu 31/07/2003 =E0 20:32, Gary Van Domselaar a =E9crit : > Hey Gang, >=20 > I'm not sure how relevant this is for PHP, but I thought I would mention=20 > this kind of cool idea: >=20 > A while back my colleague J.W. Bizzaro suggested a P2P system for > distribution of scientific articles in PDF (and perhaps other) formats. =20 > Users of the system would store their favorite articles locally on their > server, but make them accessible to others through the P2P system. The > system would allow the articles to be restricted to certain authenticated > groups (eg lab members). Type checking could be enforced so only 'documen= t > file formats' would be distributed, reducing the potential for abuse. A=20 > system like this combined with the features you describe, like automatic=20 > field retrieval and population from PubMed would be a very useful system=20 > indeed. Have alook at refdb, it will allow exactly what you are displaying, the peer-to-peer solution is nevertheless a bad thing when it is used for a large scale exchange, MPAA or RIAA or whatever company/group is involved in the treatment of the problem (they should find a way to distribute their contents more logically and the peer-to-peer system would stop by itself). To be short, linking pybliographic to lyx and refdb is actually a working system for publication-class paper, but you can imagine much more : on this database, everyone could add its comments on a specific paper, like this, you're beginning to have a real database of knowledge based on publication, and experience from users (some tricks for improving scales for examples). You'll begin to use a computer at its real power ... Stef =20 --=20 Teletch=E9a St=E9phane <steletch@biomedicale.univ-paris5.fr> --=-LBdvMygHP4khTqM1fvUg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/KYEA8rSQg/RMrogRAuNTAJ4hcPRWZg+YFrD8PwLom6ulo/2kOgCeMj86 ER3ZstTvRc9ggMHTKX24ecQ= =JkD/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LBdvMygHP4khTqM1fvUg--