Scholar Ninja
Learning and science
academic search engine
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Idea: 3 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Distributed design guarantees non-centrality and is a valuable alternative to Google-like services.
From 2 comments
I hope you carry on with this project. If there's any search engine that can beat Google (long into the future) it's a P2P one. Speaking of the devil, are you aware you can't…
higherpurpose on HNThis is really great and is fully complementary to our Content Mine (contentmine.org). Its' very similar to what I proposed as "the World Wide Molecular Matrix" (WWMM) about 10…
petermurrayrust on HN
Complementary to ContentMine's scraping work.
From 2 comments
Jure, your projects never cease to impress me. Really looking forward to talking in depth at OKfest. This idea is so close to what we've been doing that it's a real shame we…
Blahah on HNThis is really great and is fully complementary to our Content Mine (contentmine.org). Its' very similar to what I proposed as "the World Wide Molecular Matrix" (WWMM) about 10…
petermurrayrust on HN
Objections
Scraping publisher pages may violate publisher rights, including sui generis database rights.
From 3 comments
It seems like nothing like this currently exists in a centralized, non-distributed way. Why add the complexity of a p2p network into an unproven concept? Is it purely to save on…
yid on HN> This is not crawling, only scraping from an already rendered page. They really can't complain. You may want to have a look at…
gioele on HNThe problem is that the phrase "This is not crawling, only scraping" is to be taken with a grain of salt. If you find a page with a lot of information and you "just scrape it",…
gioele on HN
Unclear whether a P2P approach is needed for an unproven concept.
From 1 comment
It seems like nothing like this currently exists in a centralized, non-distributed way. Why add the complexity of a p2p network into an unproven concept? Is it purely to save on…
yid on HN
Requests
Index open-access full texts such as CC-BY content.
From 1 comment
Jure, your projects never cease to impress me. Really looking forward to talking in depth at OKfest. This idea is so close to what we've been doing that it's a real shame we…
Blahah on HN
Use preprint sources via OAI harvesting or Common Crawl.
From 2 comments
Why not index preprints, which are generally available via OAI harvesting? I'm not following the field closely at the moment, but I'm pretty sure PLOS at least has an OAI…
nl on HNWhat about http://commoncrawl.org/? Why not use it?
hershel on HN
Questions
Why never index full texts?
From 1 comment
Jure, your projects never cease to impress me. Really looking forward to talking in depth at OKfest. This idea is so close to what we've been doing that it's a real shame we…
Blahah on HN
Is P2P needed for cost savings?
From 1 comment
It seems like nothing like this currently exists in a centralized, non-distributed way. Why add the complexity of a p2p network into an unproven concept? Is it purely to save on…
yid on HN
Alternatives named
Zotero translators
From 1 comment
> I've been building a library of ScraperJSON definitions for academic publisher sites, and I've converged on some formats that work for a majority of publishers with no…
kanzure on HN
Mendeley
From 1 comment
This is really great and is fully complementary to our Content Mine (contentmine.org). Its' very similar to what I proposed as "the World Wide Molecular Matrix" (WWMM) about 10…
petermurrayrust on HN
Common Crawl
From 1 comment
What about http://commoncrawl.org/? Why not use it?
hershel on HN