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In shaping community portals like NuGOwiki and wikipathays for micronutrients, the psychological factor is more important than the scientific factor. Since the project almost completely replies on volunteer contributions (no money involved), other rewards need to be provided.

The scientific community  is ever more in need of an alternative to the current "publication - impact factor" recognition system. The "science 2.0" idea (see attachment) strongly proposes this. Editors suggest personal "contribution CVs" to become part of researchers scoring system.

As NuGO is a Network, also building on volunteer contributions, I suggest to start an experiment, as follows:
  1. Everyone subscribed to www.NuGO.org automatically gets a pubic page (www.nugo.org/name), which will serve as internet CV for scientific contributions to databases, wikis and other public / open source projects that rely on non-funded contributions.
  2. Entries in this CV hyperlink to the original contributions in the databases, wikis and other public / open source projects.
  3. The original contributions are tagged with the contributors name where possible / relevant
  4. Contributions are ranked in "editor of", contributed to", and other types. 
 This system is temporary as hopefully a mainstream science community will overrun our sytesm. In other words: as soon as a better system takes over, its content can be transferred.

What do you think? Please provide input.
Attachments
Pdf DocumentShneiderman - Science 2.0 - Science 2008.pdf
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