Papercore: Scholar Database based on the wiki Principle
The Papercore project is an open and free database for all scientists. Based on the wiki principle, Papercore allows scientists to write, store and edit summaries of scientific articles. Through this collective community process should make it possible to summarize large areas of knowledge efficiently.
Papercore was created by the research group “Computational Theoretical Physics” in collaboration with the Institute for Science Networking, both located at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Papercore is a service for creating, storing and editing summaries of scientific articles. As a service it also contains review-like texts, called “overviews”. They are aimed to give an introduction to a subject area and to provide commented links to other relevant summaries. Using overviews makes it possible to become acquainted with a new area of science very rapidly.
Launched in 2010, Papercore contains now about 250 summaries. They were written by members of the Computational Physics Group of Alexander Hartmann and primarily address the area of Statistical Physics. Due to the opening of the database to the public, all researchers can now edit or add summaries or reviews, and extending the range of subject areas to include their own.
Papercore is under constant development. Many enhancements are planned including summary/paper ratings, discussion forums, extension of input formats (currently Latex), and the inclusion of categorization schemes.
Each new summary is a useful contribution to the scientific community. The authors also profit directly as they are forced to scrutinize their article to summarize it. Hence, Papercore is an ideal tool to train doctoral students for example.
Papercore aims to become an important tool for the efficient gathering of scientific information and networking in the scientific community.
For more information, please visit the Papercore website.
