everything is an experiment
While browsing the support forums on SourceForge for Wikindx, I came across a thread on an Online-Bibliographie zur Comicforschung (Online Bibliography for Comics Research).
In fact, it’s not the only online bibliography of research into comic books. There are three more which are linked to from that site: ComicsResearch.org, comics research bibliography, and Sekundärliteratur zum Comic (German)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
In this previous post, I had actually made use of a small plug-in I had written for WordPress, which creates a macro for pulling bibliographical information from Wikindx, which I use to manage my bibliography.
The plug-in is rather simple, but since a web search turned up nothing similar (which is kind of surprising), and someone might find it useful, I thought I’d post it here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
For my Ph.D. research, I had set up the Wikindx bibliography management system for use on my laptop to keep track of the papers that I had read or come across. Furthermore, I use it to store local copies of frequently accessed papers by attaching them as PDF files.
Because I’m using Jarnal to annotate these papers, I wanted to integrate the ability to launch Jarnal into Wikindx itself, and also to store the annotations in Wikindx along with the attached documents.
I wrote the Annotate With Jarnal plug-in module for Wikindx initially for my private use, so it’s not very polished. But it gets the job done… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
There’s really no special trick to using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, or Wikindx — just follow the installation instructions.
Essentially, you just need to add the following code in the header of your web site (where “path.to” should be replaced with the URL to your installation of jsMath):
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://path.to/jsMath/easy/load.js"></script>
For this web site, the above line was added to the headers of each of the template files of the component software packages.
One minor trick to getting jsMath to work with Wikindx is that all special characters have to be escaped properly\(\)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
One of the requirements of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo is the Comprehensive-II (Depth) requirement, which consists of a written research proposal and an accompanying oral presentation.
I have decided to write my research proposal live and online. Besides being a way to test out theories about electronic publishing as well as an excuse to experiment with the relevant technologies, I have a more personal reason for doing this.
Over the years, I have acquired a number of absolutely horrendous academic habits due to the necessity of hiding my studies from my parents, such as keeping a low profile and limiting my publishing. I would usually not even begin a project unless I believed that there was a chance I could complete it without being discovered, and would reveal it only after it was already a fait accompli… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
There are already plenty of open notebook and collaborative science initiatives out there, so why roll my own website?
To begin with, I didn’t find any ready-made projects which exactly suited my needs. The most impressive, and the one which came the closest to what I was looking for, is OpenWetWare, but its focus is on biology and biological engineering. Chemists have also gotten into the act with UsefulChem, which is hosted on wikispaces.
I did not locate any project of a similar scope or scale for physics or, perhaps ironically, computer science… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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