Science enters the age of Web 2.0 »
Here’s an interesting article talking about how scientists are generally slow to create and adopt new web-based technologies that could easily help us get things done. Two websites that have really changed the ways I research electronic journal literature are refworks (a bibliography site) and scopus (a scientific search engine). I also use dropbox to sync my library of article pdf files across my computers and phone, so I have them wherever I am. Still, it would be nice if someone developed an application to help scientists organize their 1000s of pdf articles. Electronic (or paper) folder systems usually fail because it’s impossible to categorize each paper as being related to a single topic. I feel a tagging system is necessary, where a paper can have multiple tagged keywords. Just my 2 cents - Anyone want to help me develop a webapp for this?
