Trust metrics wiki - Trustlet:Open issues

Open issues that demand a decision

= Decide on a way for storing papers and comments on papers =

Use an external service
One option is to use an external service such as citeulike.org and simply aggregrate here the RSS
 * Advantages: it has the potential to involve users who are already on the external service, because they get to know the activities of our identities on the external site. There is already a system of plugin which import information about papers (authors, conference, bibtex, ...) from publishers sites. It is easy to find new related papers just following the citations or the "related papers" feature.
 * Disadvantages: users have to register for one more service and have to learn how to use one more service. The metaphors are different from the ones of a wiki.

Keep papers on this wiki
Another option is to just keep the papers in the wiki and add one page for every paper.
 * Advantages and disadvantages are just the opposite of the other option.
 * If we go this way, we should create a template for papers so that when someone insert a new paper it gets a predefined template. How easy to use are these template for users?
 * We need to allow different users to write comments about the same article (same Wiki page). How we can do it?
 * Question: If I want to write a comment that is negative such as "This paper is not interesting, don't invest some time in reading it", can I do it in a way that this is visible only to me? If not, this is a big issue and maybe it is better to use some external service that allows to add also provate comments (such as citeulike.org)

Other options?
= Decide on a licence for datasets =

We are going to collect (hopefully) tons of datasets. We must decide a consistent policy for the licences we are going to release them under. Of course we need to check under which license (in any) they are published and get an agreement about the release of the datasets.

We should check Science Commons and in particular this FAQ about Science Commons and datasets

= Open a mailing list =

Some people prefer mailing lists to wikis (at least this is another way to involve people). Shall we open a mailing list and promote it on the wiki? If we decide so, there is no urgency and we can wait few weeks with no problem.