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Couchyam
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- Seeking input/contributors: web-app to help beginning researchers/students and science communicators
In short, I'm interested in working on a web-app to make landmark papers in theoretical physics and mathematics more broadly accessible, especially to undergraduate and graduate students who are looking to catch up to modern topics (without sacrificing rigor or exactness of understanding), and science communicators/enthusiasts who may wish to represent science more accurately.
I'm open to ideas for how the program could function on a basic level, but the idea so far is to allow users to recognize and denote precise conceptual links and stronger interdependencies between papers that create "learning pathways" (something like a prerequisite tree) for interested readers, and to publish explanatory articles that either focus on specific papers/results, or on a coherent thread or trend of ideas across several papers. The explanatory work could range in formality from casual notes or back-of-the-envelope classroom examples to preprints intended for major publication. The project would probably need to incorporate (and facilitate) relatively stringent credit attribution and source tracking features (e.g. mandatory bibliographies, reminders to validate input with appropriate citations, etc.), and a way to interface smoothly and directly with relevant background work (e.g. arXiv preprints, other expository articles in pdf format, etc.). It might also be interesting if the program could keep track of a variety of relationships between papers (e.g. a somewhat large citation network, together with smaller and more specific annotated networks of conceptual interdependencies.)
I'm open to ideas for how the program could function on a basic level, but the idea so far is to allow users to recognize and denote precise conceptual links and stronger interdependencies between papers that create "learning pathways" (something like a prerequisite tree) for interested readers, and to publish explanatory articles that either focus on specific papers/results, or on a coherent thread or trend of ideas across several papers. The explanatory work could range in formality from casual notes or back-of-the-envelope classroom examples to preprints intended for major publication. The project would probably need to incorporate (and facilitate) relatively stringent credit attribution and source tracking features (e.g. mandatory bibliographies, reminders to validate input with appropriate citations, etc.), and a way to interface smoothly and directly with relevant background work (e.g. arXiv preprints, other expository articles in pdf format, etc.). It might also be interesting if the program could keep track of a variety of relationships between papers (e.g. a somewhat large citation network, together with smaller and more specific annotated networks of conceptual interdependencies.)
