Dear Richard,
This sounds like an interesting concept; thanks for bringing it to the
attention of the Digital Classicist group. Could you tell us a little
more about any Web 2.0 features this site includes, such as social
networking, topic-map like browsing, visualization, etc.? How do you see
this developing and being used? (And just out of interest, is the
implementation completely proprietary or have you adapted any open
source web tools?)
Thanks again,
Gabriel
Richard Price a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> I'm a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where I recently finished my Ph.D on the philosophy of perception.
>
> Together with a team of people from Stanford University and Cambridge University, I've just launched a website, www.academia.edu<http://www.academia.edu>, which does two
>
> things:
>
> - It displays academics around the world in a 'tree' format, according to which institution/department they are affiliated with.
> - It enables researchers to keep track of the latest developments in their field - the latest people, papers, and talks.
>
> We're hoping that the site will eventually list every academic in the world -- Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students. People can add their
>
> departments, and themselves, to the tree by clicking on the arrows.
>
> The site is getting some traction. Almost 9,000 academics have joined Academia.edu in the last two months. Some professors on the site include:
>
> - Richard Dawkins - http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
> - Stephen Hawking - http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
> - Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
> - Noam Chomsky - http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky
>
> We're trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible. It would be terrific if you could visit the site, and add yourself to your
>
> department on the tree. If your university is not there, you can add it by clicking on the arrows coming out of the university boxes.
>
> And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> Dr. Richard Price,
> Prize Fellow,
> All Souls College,
> Oxford,
> OX1 4AL
>
> http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice
>
>
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