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Transforming the Web into an open-access knowledge-repository with better knowledge-creation and faster publication, by means of software for MetaLinks and for AEC-Forums that enhance post-graduate education

1 Research Director, Abratech Corporation, Mill Valley, California, United States of America;
2 Professor Emeritus, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1568v3
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Subject Areas
Computer Education, Computer Networks and Communications, Databases, Digital Libraries, World Wide Web and Web Science
Keywords
Compendium, Knowledge-Creation, RetroLink, ForwardLink, MetaLink, Stronger Inference, Post-Graduate Education, MultiLevel-Format, Active Archive, PrePrint Publishing
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© 2016 Jewett
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Jewett DL. 2016. Transforming the Web into an open-access knowledge-repository with better knowledge-creation and faster publication, by means of software for MetaLinks and for AEC-Forums that enhance post-graduate education. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1568v3

Abstract

Author Comment

Changes in terminology has led to another complete re-write, including a new Title and new labelled Sections throughout. The Contents page is enlarged with better numbering of the Sections. Some Figures were re-done, and some eliminated. A new Conclusion Section was added, as was a Supplement giving the MetaLink-Protocol that was submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force, thus providing a source of Detail that would otherwise not be available at this time. NOTE: Pro or Con Comments are very welcome. The numbers at the end of paragraphs provide a means to identify parts relevant to comments.

Supplemental Information

MetaLink-Protocol: a detailed description

This Dataset provides the complete submission of an Informational Internet-Draft "Request For Comment" to the Internet Engineering Task Force. In accordance with their rules, it was posted on the Web and then removed after a fixed interval. This description fits the MetaLink-Protocol of the PrePrint, with a few terminology changes that are listed on the first page preceding the document.

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1568v3/supp-1

Additional Information

Competing Interests

The Author is the Research Director, and majority stock holder of a small business, Abratech Corporation. He is also the Principal Investigator on the NIH grant that has supported this effort so far (see next section). By the conditions of the grant, it is required that Abratech commercialize some aspect of the work. The Author is convinced that to gain sufficient support for these ideas to "take off", the Software for both WebPendeons and MetaLinks must be open-source, and freely available. Thus, there is no commercialization possible from Software sales.

For this reason, when the Software is ready for release, Abratech Corp. will offer "ready-to-go" "Hosting Packages" that can be used to bring a WebPendeon up and running online within (a goal of) ten minutes. While many Moderators may use Institutional servers for hosting a WebPendeon, other Moderators may not have such facilities, or may not want to use them. This commercialization will remove the need for (time-consuming) downloading and installing of the (Open-Source) Software-Components needed for a useful WebPendeon. In this way, the commercialization interest avoids conflict with the "Gift Culture" that is highly valued by those likely to be Moderators (and the Author when he is doing research). The "Hosting Package" plan may actually be essential for WebPendeons and MetaLinks to succeed (by becoming "viral"), and, if so, will play a useful role in the overall goals of improving Knowledge-Creation and Post-Graduate Education.

There are no other Competing Interests.

Author Contributions

Don L Jewett conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables, performed the computation work, reviewed drafts of the paper.

Data Deposition

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The Software Code described herein is not complete, and was created for testing. There is no existing code to create the actions described here.

The Supplemental Dataset attached is the complete Request For Comments regarding the MetaLink-Protocol submitted to, and posted by, the Internet Engineering Task Force under a Creative Commons copyright. In accordance with their rules it was removed from the Web after a fixed interval. The Author is part-owner of the original copyright.

Funding

The project described was supported in part by Grant Number R43LM010734 from the National Library of Medicine. The content herein is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Library of Medicine or the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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