AJCann posted a blog today about what he doesn’t like about Mendeley. Abhishek replied that he does not like people complain about one tool, instead of pointing out a good alternative. Mendeley has two alternatives, Zotero and CiteULike (there is also Connotea, but got behind in evolution).

Agreeing with @citeulike and @abhishektiwari, as a service provider any bad news is good news too: they provide opportunities to improve. So, as encouraged to do so, I reported my long list of things I miss in CiteULike:

  • @citeulike ok, one more. wish #18: get readermeter.org to also support citeulike
  • @citeulike wish #17: allow people linking between papers in their libs using CiTO to annotate how they cite papers, see http://ur.ly/lBUO
  • @citeulike wish #16: I think I saw images from some papers, right? how about doing that for #biomedcentral journals too?
  • @citeulike wish #15: at the same http://ur.ly/lIGn page, the tag cloud should reflect tag use with font sizing
  • @citeulike wish #14: upon ‘post url’, the first page with extraced information should allow marking as ‘I am author’ (cannot find that)
  • @citeulike (new) wish #12: clicking an account name should get me to a public portal, rather than just his paper list
  • @citeulike good point, wish #13: be more strong on requiring people to tag papers… and use article keywords as default tags
  • @citeulike wish #11: remove ‘no-tag’ from tag clouds
  • @citeulike wish #10: support #RDF export with BIBO and/or PRISM
  • @citeulike wish #9: use #foaf for the RDFa for account pages, and to mark up friends
  • @citeulike wish #8: and more generally, make #citeulike part of the #linkeddata network (provide an #rdf API)
  • @citeulike wish #7: start using RDFa, e.g. with the PRISM ontology
  • @citeulike wish #6: on an article page (like http://ur.ly/lvWk) summarize the network that bookmarked that article, not just the acc names
  • @citeulike wish #5: don’t show the ‘copy’ button for papers that are already in my archive (really a bug)
  • @citeulike indeed, but don’t or do it right… wish #4: allow people to have that link automatically point to an external blog
  • @citeulike wish #3: provide summaries of lists, like article count per journal and article count per year
  • @citeulike well, I’ll use the blog functoinality to summarize… wish #2: do not try to be a blogging platform
  • @citeulike (new) wish #1: put automatically focus on text field after clicking search and select all text for easy deletion

The reports are now also available in the fora of CiteULike.

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2010/09/list-of-things-i-miss-in-citeulike.html.