That’s the space Mendeley and CiteULike are in, for articles, and LibraryThing or GoodReads for books. (Back when I first joined I bought a LibraryThing account for SIAI that I wanted to donate, seeded with 300+ books from its shelves, but I wasn’t taken up on that.)
They’re all somewhat deficient, in my view, when it comes to group operation—all are heavily biased to collecting and managing an individual’s references. But they’re better than nothing; and better than the Wiki, which I don’t think is very suitable. Bibliographic entries are a pain to work with manually.
Having a database of references, per se, isn’t so valuable. What would make such a thing valuable to me is seeing annotations from the folks on LW that I can tell are more knowledgeable than me.
The Singularity Institute already maintains a Mendeley group, but it is just for literature cited by SI publications. Another Mendeley group could be created for “Useful References for Less Wrongers” or something, but it would require a Hero to maintain it, and I’m not sure anybody wants to put in the time. It sounds like a 100+ hours project to me.
That’s the space Mendeley and CiteULike are in, for articles, and LibraryThing or GoodReads for books. (Back when I first joined I bought a LibraryThing account for SIAI that I wanted to donate, seeded with 300+ books from its shelves, but I wasn’t taken up on that.)
They’re all somewhat deficient, in my view, when it comes to group operation—all are heavily biased to collecting and managing an individual’s references. But they’re better than nothing; and better than the Wiki, which I don’t think is very suitable. Bibliographic entries are a pain to work with manually.
Having a database of references, per se, isn’t so valuable. What would make such a thing valuable to me is seeing annotations from the folks on LW that I can tell are more knowledgeable than me.
The Singularity Institute already maintains a Mendeley group, but it is just for literature cited by SI publications. Another Mendeley group could be created for “Useful References for Less Wrongers” or something, but it would require a Hero to maintain it, and I’m not sure anybody wants to put in the time. It sounds like a 100+ hours project to me.
That’s perhaps more properly a CFAR type mission, actually.