From The Blogosphere

摘要

Graduate students take note: 'crowd-sourcing' is the new way to get grunt work done. In a project to evaluate the usefulness of online comments on scientific publications, the NPG web-publishing department turned to - who else - Internet surfers. NPG web-software developer Euan Adie is heading up the project, which takes data borrowed with permissionrnfrom PLoS ONE, one of the first journals to allow online commenting on its papers when it launched in December 2006. By categorizing the comments left by readers of all PLoS ONE papers published up until August 2008, the team hopes to gain an idea of how to make online commenting more effective.