Peter Suber, Transition day for the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) …

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Summary:

Starting today, the OATP feeds are published by TagTeam, not Connotea. If you once subscribed to the Connotea versions of the feeds, it's time to switch to the TagTeam versions if you don't want to miss any OA-related news. Starting today, only the TagTeam versions of the feeds will be comprehensive and up to date. Also starting today, OATP will only know about your tagging activity if you tell it. You may continue to tag for OATP in Connotea, or you may switch to Delicious, CiteULike, or many other platforms, including TagTeam itself. But the TagTeam version of OATP must know about you, and where you're tagging for OATP, if you want it to harvest your OA-related tagging. To continue to participate in OATP as a reader (to subscribe to the new versions of the feeds) or as a tagger (to tag on the platform of your choice and make sure that OATP knows about it), see the OATP transition handout. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam For details on TagTeam itself, see my short intro. http://bit.ly/tagteam-about I know this transition is inconvenient, perhaps even confusing. But the power of TagTeam makes the transition trouble worth bearing. Among the new advantages: Taggers for OATP are now free to tag from the platforms of their choice (such as Delicious, CiteULike, Connotea, or TagTeam). The feeds of new OA developments will have no duplicates. Because taggers needn't use Connotea, and needn't worry about duplicates, the project is now free to recruit new taggers aggressively, which will make its coverage of new OA developments even more comprehensive and up to date. Finally, the chaotic folksonomy of project tags will evolve into a more useful standard vocabulary or ontology. If you haven't previously participated in OATP, don't worry. You're actually lucky that you needn't go through the transition. You can start participating as a reader simply by subscribing to the primary project feed, and  you can start participating as a tagger simply by tagging OA-related content from your favorite tagging platform. Again, details are in the transition handout. http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam 

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Date tagged:

09/17/2012, 10:19

Date published:

09/17/2012, 06:19