Hi everyone,
Last year we asked for feedback about a large literature review
we are currently conducting on peer-reviewed studies on
Wikipedia. We thank everyone who gave us comments and pointers,
and we have carefully listened to everything. We're glad to
mention that we've joined forces with Finn Årup Nielsen, and so
we'll be fully merging our review into his (his latest working
paper is available at
http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/edoc_download.php/6012/pdf/imm6012.pdf).
In the next week or so we expect to release the main dataset of
our extraction to a public SMW wiki for comments and feedback
before we proceed with further analysis. However, we have two questions to clarify
about how to release our data. I'll be posting them in two
distinct threads for more organized responses. Here I'll ask a
question about posting published abstracts, and in a separate
posting I'll ask about license.
We would really love to put up all the abstracts of the articles
that we post (and indeed have already done so on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ACST),
but I recently encountered the following article which basically
argues that mass posting of abstracts is not justifiable as fair
use, at least in the context of Wikipedia:
http://journalology.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-you-cant-copy-abstracts-into.html
We don't think this argument necessarily applies to websites
that list abstracts (for example, PubMed and Medeley published
thousands of abstracts), but we would really liketo hear the
community's comments on whether posting copyrighted abstracts
(in our case, over 400) generally qualifies as fair use.
Regards,
Chitu
For the Wikilit project team: Arto
Lanamäki, Mohamad Mehdi, Mostafa Mesgari, Finn Årup Nielsen,
Chitu Okoli
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