diff org/ideas.org @ 73:135fabc13f8a

digital interlibrary loan for articles.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:16:04 -0500
parents ace7f097eb6c
children ca1cd5bab77d
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     1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 09 03:18:26 2013 -0500
     1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 16 15:16:04 2013 -0500
     1.3 @@ -31,6 +31,16 @@
     1.4  getting credit.
     1.5  #+end_quote
     1.6  
     1.7 +- digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
     1.8 +     interlibrary loans for books, so why not do the same for access
     1.9 +     to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
    1.10 +     allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
    1.11 +     available through any participating university. This could be
    1.12 +     achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
    1.13 +     universities. Each university would decide who at the university
    1.14 +     can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
    1.15 +     be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
    1.16 +
    1.17  - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
    1.18                    by computers, show two people playing chess in a
    1.19                    void. They are floating in space, and there is a
    1.20 @@ -50,7 +60,7 @@
    1.21  
    1.22  - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
    1.23       data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
    1.24 -     server, a key for each time period, something liek that.
    1.25 +     server, a key for each time period, something like that.
    1.26  
    1.27  - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
    1.28       as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they