On 21 Jul 2010, at 21:43, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
A compromise could be that the ID is the first author's name plus an auto-incrememented ID per author. So for example, the first paper of mine the system learns is priedhorsky1, the second priedhorsky2, etc. So you get a system-generated ID for uniqueness but also something comprehensible for people.
Interesting. I'd really like ID's to be not only comprehensible but also to have a fair chance of being directly inputtable by humans.
For instance, on Wikipedia, if I know that I am looking for the article on "citation signals" I can type the URL directly, without searching.
In my ideal citation-wiki-in-the-sky, you could get to the citation directly in this way -- and sensible disambiguation pages would be automatically generated.
-Jodi