User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/OKCon 2011/Outlook

Abstract · Start · Wiki publishing · Sample citation · Versioning · Issues · Outlook · Q & A

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• Authoring versioned sources are going to continue gaining popularity
• Individual versions (and differences between them) can be clearly and publicly identified
• Consider the version as a "least publishable unit" and use it as a basis for scientometrics
• Over time, version histories of scientific documents make for great teaching tools in history of science, giving the proverbial giants the appropriate microattribution (especially if coupled to things like ORCID)