Re: "Research"

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

I really like this idea.  I assume that we link by an RA,Dec pair?  This 
then links to the web site with either a blank page for someone to fill in, 
or whatever has been put there plus instructions on adding more.

I think it would work.

Seems to me we also need an automatic way to add stuff to the web 
site.  Every tass message containing ra,dec pair(s) would be automatically 
linked to the WikiWikiWeb under that position.

I can assure you that I have to beat people with clubs to get them to put 
anything into technical notes.  If you let people think about adding 
something to the site, 50% will add too much, 50% will never send anything 
to the site.  There are those who never think their work is good enough to 
put someplace "permanent".

The process has to be automatic.  Anything that looks like measurement or 
data should be automatically posted to the WikiWiki.  We should snarf up 
star names like WA Vir as well as positions and automatically look up their 
position and add the message.  I am not worried about having too much 
information or too much junk at the star position.  We all have learned to 
scan through a lot of junk to get the few mail messages.  Nothing new to 
cope with.  The problem is not finding the cross reference.  So I would 
accept a lot of junk to get a little good stuff.

Tom Droege

At 09:29 AM 6/6/03 -0700, Chris Albertson wrote:

>I still think the way to flag stars is to create specialized lists
>and cross reference the main TASS catalog to these lists.
>
>However in addition the comments engine is good.  We have this
>email list but the archive is jumbled up and hard to read.
>If it were edited, anotated with coments and simply looked nicer
>people could read it.  a "WikiWikiWeb" might work.
>A "Wiki" is a web site that the sites rader build.  People can
>add text to the pages or add pages, fix other people's "mistakes".
>
>Read more here: (please re-assemble the URL)
>
>http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7534-8-6124724-1.html?tag=st.bl.7534-8-6124724-2.txt.7534-8-6124724-1
>
>
>Here is one that you can use:
>    http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/
>
>They are easy to set up too.  Read more here:
>    http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
>
>
>
>--- Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net> wrote:
> > To me it seems like he is saying we need to flag stars that TASS has
> > discovered as variable already so they we don't keep re-discovering
> > them.
> >
> > I actually like Tom's idea of a comments engine e.g. slashdot,
> > although
> > it may be ambitious.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
>
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