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.
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:
How about a literature database that makes it easy to include references in posts?
A few thoughts on such a literature plugin:
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.
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).
My idea would be that the plugin acts as an interface between a dedicated zotero database and the discourse forum.
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)
Once there are records in the db, users can search them and paste them into their post while editing.
The citation style should probably be fixed via a site setting (cite setting )
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.
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.
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).
Publico aquí y no en la publicación de wiki en la parte superior porque no estoy lo suficientemente seguro de mis hechos.
Recientemente me pidieron que usara un nuevo foro de discourse que administro como ubicación para discutir un artículo académico en evolución a medida que avanza en la revisión por pares formal. El contexto académico en este caso es el análisis numérico de sistemas de energía multidisciplinario, pero la disciplina particular involucrada no debería ser especialmente relevante. Por lo tanto:
Caso de uso: usar una instancia de discourse para discutir modificaciones en evolución de un artículo (¡en este caso, se requieren “revisiones sustanciales”!)
Explicación: discourse se usará únicamente para la discusión; las ediciones reales, la preparación del documento, se realizarán en otro lugar (por ejemplo, Google Docs, Overleaf, MS Teams o GitLab).
Requisitos: las discusiones deben ser completamente privadas para la lista de autores y no visibles para nadie más (excepto los administradores).
Una solución
Creo que primero necesito crear un grupo solo con los coautores, digamos “u4ria-goals-authors”. Y luego una categoría, digamos “U4ria goals”. Y bloquear esa categoría y luego hacerla accesible solo para el grupo de coautores.
Una pregunta que surge es si puedo crear una categoría “Papers” y luego una subcategoría “U4RIA goals” y luego mapear “u4ria-goals-authors” solo a esa subcategoría.
Cierre
Dando un paso atrás, tal vez el caso de uso más amplio de discusiones privadas debería ser desarrollado más por los desarrolladores de discourse y la comunidad de discourse, ¿para ver si el soporte específico y una mejor documentación podrían ayudar en este contexto? Con mis mejores deseos, R
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