Discourse for Academic Use Features (Done and to be Done)

I want to have a special topic about how to use Discourse for Academic Use.

1. What we already have?

Markdown Supporting.

Html Supporting

OneBox Feature

MathJax Supporting with plugin.

 - git clone https://github.com/kasperpeulen/discourse-mathjax

I have to say it was conflict with another plugin “iframe”. If you have iframe plugin, you have to delete it.

Also another plugin can do it:

Footnote and Reference

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533/20

DOI resolver

https://meta.discourse.org/t/doi-resolver-updated/38920

Print long topic to PDF, etc

https://meta.discourse.org/t/print-long-topic-to-pdf-redux-again/44639

Outside Websites Support(Boxes & etc.)

  1. github.com support
  2. arxiv support

Plotting Tools

CCS support

Team Topics


2. What we want to have?

reference


P.S. You can reply me about the functions that you think are important for academic use in discourse and whether it has been developed already or in developing.

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Like oneboxing some academic websites?

  • Oneleaf?

  • Google Drive/Dropbox?

Are these supported already?

I’m assuming you mean overleaf, not “oneleaf”?

That and google docs were demonstrated in your previous topic:

Google drive & Dropbox also onebox in the same way.

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Sorry, I think it is

which supports Latex Collaborative Writing and Publishing.

What is one-leaf, seems to be a forum.

http://www.oneleaffarm.com/

Excellent idea to start this topic!

I’d consider a highlighting plugin (or even as a core function) extremely useful for the academic context, but also for other communities where posts might be a bit longer so that highlights would be a great way of finding the most important parts of those posts. I proposed the highlighting feature in more detail here:

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Actually I’m really wondering What do we need for academic use?

For different areas, the tools are so different.

Like in Physics, Math, we just need Latex and some curving tool.

In Computer science, maybe the coding tool? or we may need some “Select as the right answer” tool in bug fix questions like in the stackoverflow

In Chemistry, we may need some drawing tool?

In Logic, we may need the logical icons?


As a matter of fact, I think it is quite good to have markdown and latex and the other tools listed befor

But how to make people come and discuss on the web? How to provide the best service when talking about academic problems?


By the way, it is very good to have a highlight tool

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Hi, I found a list.

I’m wondering how many of these tools can be and should be integrated into Discourse.

http://openmetric.org/tool/

How about a literature database that makes it easy to include references in posts?

A few thoughts on such a literature plugin:

  1. I guess there is no point in creating a database in discourse from scratch, given existing solutions such as zotero, mendeley, endnote and (hopefully soon) Citavi Web.
  2. To start with, I think the focus should be on supporting zotero, since it’s free and open source (and perhaps there will never be a need to support anything else).
  3. My idea would be that the plugin acts as an interface between a dedicated zotero database and the discourse forum.
  4. Starting with an empty db, a user who wants to add a reference (via a button in the editor) gets the option to add a new reference (not sure if this should be done with a dedicated discourse ui or simply using the existing zotero ui, but the user should not have to leave discourse to do it)
  5. Once there are records in the db, users can search them and paste them into their post while editing.
  6. The citation style should probably be fixed via a site setting (cite setting :stuck_out_tongue:)
  7. There should be a dedicated bibliography page where all db records are listed in alphabetical order with to all the posts where the respective item is cited.

Now, the last point is where it becomes tricky: Since this type of linking is analogous to how discourse already works, the best way to achieve this might be to create a post for every reference, but I’m not sure about this, since there should only be one record for each item and that should be in zotero, I suppose.

But it would also be conceivable that the zotero database is used merely as a way of quickly insert text which would then live a life of its own, without any links, but that would defeat the purpose of making it easy to find all posts citing a specific text.

Any comments or ideas?

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Zotero is great if you really need to build your own literature database (with all the advantages & disadvantages of this route). I originally had Zotero attached to a Wordpress/bbPress forum, but have moved away from that approach and am using this instead:

For a use case where you basically just want to assist users in providing correct litterature references, I find this a much more practical approach. Check out the demo video below, I would LOVE to see this kind of functionality available on Discourse. It would really help to open it up for academic scenarios.

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Here is the latest addition to your collection:

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Download PDF feature may support the possibility to upload the document to obtain a DOI number from, say https://zenodo.org/. My interest is to have a feature (or through a plugin) to submit and obtain DOI number to a selected or featured topics using the API available from http://developers.zenodo.org/#rest-api through a click of a button (available for the staff users).

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Github support

Hi, I think this post should be updated multi-times. So this list should at least can be re-edited by myself. I can’t re-edit my historical posts Now.

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I made the OP a wiki, so you can edit it now.

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دعم مناقشات المؤلفين المشاركين

أنا أنشر هنا وليس في النشر على الويكي في الأعلى لأنني لست متأكدًا بما فيه الكفاية من حقائقي.

طُلب مني مؤخرًا استخدام منتدى مناقشة جديد أقوم بإدارته كموقع لـ مناقشة ورقة أكاديمية متطورة أثناء مرورها بعملية مراجعة الأقران الرسمية. السياق الأكاديمي في هذه الحالة هو تحليل أنظمة الطاقة الرقمية متعدد التخصصات — ولكن لا ينبغي أن يكون التخصص المحدد المعني ذا أهمية خاصة. لذلك:

  • حالة الاستخدام: استخدام مثيل مناقشة لمناقشة التعديلات المتطورة على ورقة (في هذه الحالة تتطلب “مراجعات جوهرية”!)

  • الشرح: سيتم استخدام المناقشة فقط للمناقشة — سيتم إجراء التعديلات الفعلية، أي إعداد المستند، في مكان آخر (مثل Google Docs، Overleaf، MS Teams، أو GitLab)

  • المتطلبات: يجب أن تكون المناقشات خاصة تمامًا بقائمة المؤلفين ولا يراها أحد غيرهم (باستثناء المسؤولين).

حل واحد

أعتقد أنني بحاجة أولاً إلى إنشاء مجموعة تضم المؤلفين المشاركين فقط، ولنقل “u4ria-goals-authors”. ثم فئة، ولنقل “أهداف U4ria”. ثم قفل تلك الفئة وجعلها متاحة فقط لمجموعة المؤلفين المشاركين.

أحد الأسئلة التي تظهر هو ما إذا كان بإمكاني إنشاء فئة “الأوراق” ثم فئة فرعية “أهداف U4RIA” ثم ربط “u4ria-goals-authors” بتلك الفئة الفرعية فقط؟

الخاتمة

بالتراجع، ربما يجب على مطوري المناقشة ومجتمع المناقشة تطوير حالة الاستخدام الأوسع للمناقشات الخاصة بشكل أكبر — لمعرفة ما إذا كان الدعم المحدد والتوثيق الأفضل قد يساعد في هذا السياق؟ مع أطيب التمنيات، R

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هذا ما يجب فعله.

هذا صحيح أيضًا.

الوثائق التي ترسلها موجودة وغير ضرورية لك بما أنك تفهم بالفعل كيف تعمل دون قراءتها (هل بحثت عن “category group”، على سبيل المثال؟) :wink:

راجع كيفية إنشاء فئات خاصة باستخدام إعدادات أمان الفئة للتأكد من أن ما كنت تعتقده صحيح!

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