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;From a 10-6-2008 discussion on #openlibrary on irc.freenode.net: Reffer madness part I-II. Prefaced by a blog post on the longest now.
;From a 10-6-2008 discussion on #openlibrary on irc.freenode.net: Reffer madness part I-II.
 
== Introduction ==
<sj>
: citations lack specificity.
: as a result they mislead, they conflict, they obfuscate
: they don't aggregate, they don't prioritize, they don't elaborate
: slach lanu.
: you have to track down the original to know how and in what sense and at what depth a source was cited and whether the source is relevant, a flimsy self-published rag, or not evey traceable.
: and who has time or access to do that?
 
mako suggests: draft a standard for identifying types of refs, advocate for interest, start using it somewhere high-profile
 
sj suggests: blogging about this process, drawing in people who have though about this, defining it in a way that it can improve Wikipedia citation style and scalability of authority
 
<mako>
: all we can ask is that authors explain their perception of the reliability
: i don't want to cite things opaquely
: and i don't want others to do so as well
: one nice thing i want is a way to do it that is at least quasi-compatible with exciting style guidelines
:: <brassratgirl> exciting!
: so that i can argue in favor of doing it in things that i actually publish in other people journals
:: <greg-g> that seems like a must have
: <mako> bemasc (not here) suggested treating citations as kind of like nouns
 
== Actively attending ==
brassratgirl : Phoeb. E
mako        : B. M. Hill
jgay        : J.  Gay
_sj_        : SJ. Klein
solrize      : S. Olrize
stargirl    : H Wollach


== Papers cited ==
== Papers cited ==
* Example : [http://pastebin.com/m18a601a6 from Andrew McCallum]
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sht25/papers/sigdial06.pdf An annotation scheme for citation function] by Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar (2006)
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sht25/papers/sigdial06.pdf An annotation scheme for citation function] by Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar (2006)
** John M. Ziman. 1968. '''Public Knowledge''': An Essay Concerning the Social Dimensions of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
** John M. Ziman. 1968. '''Public Knowledge''': An Essay Concerning the Social Dimensions of Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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* [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mwick/ Papers by Michael Wick]
* [http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mwick/ Papers by Michael Wick]


== on irc ==
For discussions like this we really need a tangents/talk channel and a get-shit-done channel.
: every chan should have a get-shit-done channel.  what to name it?  sj
:: ## tends to mean off-topic  -jgay
::: so what means more-on-topic?  sj


= CITE UNSEEN =
= CITE UNSEEN =
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: err, rather, those are data sets we can use with the osftware
: err, rather, those are data sets we can use with the osftware


=== McCallum and Wollach ===
=== McCallum and Wollach ==
; Andrew McCallum
; McCallum
: He did Rexa and then here two short descriptions of papers he published last year http://pastebin.com/m18a601a6
: The two essays are "Learning to Predict the Quality of Contributions to Wikipedia" and "Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression". I think if he can automate 90% accuracy rates with his programs, then he'll know what kinds of citations are good ones.
: The two essays are "Learning to Predict the Quality of Contributions to Wikipedia" and "Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression". I think if he can automate 90% accuracy rates with his programs, then he'll know what kinds of citations are good ones.
: Also with Hannah Wallach he did a great paper entitled "Community-based Link Prediction with Text."
: Also with Hannah Wallach he did a great paper entitled "Community-based Link Prediction with Text."
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=== classes of refs ===
=== classes of refs ===


explicitly noting a dependency on a source's legitimacy (usually implying the reference is viewed positively and as a source of accuracy/legitimacy, save in satire or proof by counterexample):
implying the reference is viewed positively and as a source of accuracy/legitimacy:
#'based (in some part) on',  
:'based (in some part) on', 'uses as positive reference/proof', 'uses as negative reference/proof'
#'uses as positive reference/proof',  
#'uses as negative reference/proof'


explicitly stating legitimacy:
:'discounts/criticizes', 'promotes/supports', 'attempts to prove', 'attempts to disprove'
#'promotes/supports',  
#'attempts to prove',  


exlpicitly stating illegitimacy:
:'cites as transmitter of fundamental cite'
#'discounts/criticizes',
:: <sj> there's actually a lot of conflation of proximal reference with original source that goes on when one is lazy or pressed for time leading at times to the wrong people being recognized for discoveries when this was not their intent
#'attempts to disprove'
::: <jgay> _sj_, yeah, that is really common.


meta-ref:
:the anti-ref:  'presents a different and possibly incompatible perspective'
#'cites as transmitter of fundamental cite'
: 'used as inspiration for this section' v. 'referred to for research but provided no inspiration for any section'
#: <sj> there's actually a lot of conflation of proximal reference with original source that goes on when one is lazy or pressed for time leading at times to the wrong people being recognized for discoveries when this was not their intent
#:: <jgay> _sj_, yeah, that is really common.
 
anti-ref:   
# 'presents a different and possibly incompatible perspective'
# 'referred to for research but provided no inspiration for any section'




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#misleading cite - intended to confuse the course of a discussion; cite doesn't affect the argument the way it's implied to
#misleading cite - intended to confuse the course of a discussion; cite doesn't affect the argument the way it's implied to


== asides ==
== I AM THE ANTICITES ==
 
<brassratgirl> _sj_: any citation scheme doesn't fix the having access problem
 
 
=== on why this is useful ===
<solrize> is this something anyone has cared about in the past N centuries of academic publishing?
<solrize> i mean usually one just explains in words how the ref was used
: <brassratgirl> solrize: sure, but there arent' that many people who are actually interested in citation styles
: <_sj_> solrize, it has generally been considered charming that being a good scribe requires massive amounts of time and unique access to exotic journals
 
 
<_sj_> brg, I would say that this style standard shoulde xplicitly push for clarity in the cite for two reasons.
: 1) aggregation : you want to be able to combine a number of cites together, or combine cites through a chain of documents this is less possible if your aggregator has to parse natural language to make outall of the possible meanings your citing sentence may have
: ...
:  2) for parallelism : if you rely on natural language to define what you mean by a cite it will be more different among citers than if people have to explicitly pick a style. a style that says "I cite this to indicate I think it is wrong" is explicitly different from a "I cite this because it influenced me [negatively]"
 
 
=== on irc ===
For discussions like this we really need a tangents/talk channel and a get-shit-done channel.
: every chan should have a get-shit-done channel.  what to name it?  sj
:: ## tends to mean off-topic  -jgay
::: so what means more-on-topic?  sj
 
= I AM THE ANTICITES =
''to come...''
''to come...''
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