find API-based federation partners

[cjlee112]

Look at the set of services that provide similar functionality (papers, people, recommendations) and see which ones provide an API that would enable some degree of inter-operation (sync data in both directions). Prioritize the services based on value vs. effort. Then create new issues to implement those API connections where it's worth doing.

[cjlee112]

the list so far: Math Overflow; mathblogging.org / scienceseeker. Please suggest others.

[fgdorais]

Slightly different direction, Boole's Rings is a small group of individual blogs that band together to federate their data. (I think this is a very good setting to test the wordpress platform without having to worry about as many details.)

[ketch]

More to add to the list:

• http://www.pubpeer.com/
• https://publons.com/
• http://sciencegist.com/ (there is an "API" button on their homepage, though it just brings up a long text file)
• http://thewinnower.com/ (this one hasn't launched yet)
• http://scicomp.stackexchange.com
• http://annotatr.appspot.com/
• http://plasmyd.com/
• http://journalfire.com/
• http://science-advisor.net/
• http://www.papercritic.com/home

Most of these have not seen much use so far, but we should keep an eye on them. Scicomp.SE gets a lot of use but only a few questions/answers discuss papers.

[mitar]

PeerLibrary. Not yet released though. :-)