[GOAL] {Disarmed} Major upgrade for the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)

[Peter Suber]

     * Announcement (cross-posted) *

The Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) is starting a transition to
TagTeam, a new and more versatile tagging platform. This is a significant
improvement to the project, and may also count as long-awaited. At least
I've been looking forward to this day for more than two years.

OATP is a social-tagging project I launched in April 2009 with the twofold
purpose of alerting readers to new OA developments and organizing knowledge
about OA. For more about OATP, see the project home page <
bit.ly/oatrackingproject> or my article about the project in SOAN for May
2009 <http://goo.gl/f6cVe>.

TagTeam is a new open-source tagging service I developed with Dan
Collis-Puro at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. For more
about TagTeam, see the TagTeam site <tagteam.harvard.edu/> or my short
introduction <bit.ly/tagteam-about>, "What is TagTeam?"

OATP *readers* follow new OA developments by reading one or more project
feeds, and OATP *taggers* tag new OA developments for themselves and for
readers.

Until now, both kinds of OATP participant had to use Connotea, the tagging
platform from the Nature Publishing Group. The transition means that *
readers* should switch from Connotea feeds to TagTeam feeds, and that *
taggers* are now free to use other tagging platforms, such as Delicious,
CiteULike, Connotea, or TagTeam itself.

If you've previously participated in OATP as a reader or tagger, it's easy
to continue to participate. If you haven't previously participated, it's
easy to get started. For the details, see our handout on the transition.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam

Here's a quick summary of the transition handout:

*(1) To participate as a reader*

If you subscribe to any OATP feeds from Connotea, it's time to switch to
the counterpart feeds from TagTeam. If you've never subscribed to the OATP
feed, this is a good time to start. The feed is available in RSS or Atom,
and will soon be available by email, Twitter, and other formats. Here are
the RSS and Atom versions of the primary project feed:
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.rss
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp/items.atom

If you want to read the feed without subscribing, just visit the HTML
version whenever you'd like to catch up on what the project taggers have
discovered.
http://tagteam.harvard.edu/remix/oatp

*Starting September 17, my assistants and I will stop tagging for OATP
through Connotea.  Starting then, the Connotea project feeds will become
less and less comprehensive. The only way to get comprehensive OATP feeds
will be through TagTeam. Please use the next ten days to subscribe to the
new TagTeam feeds of your choice.*

For the next ten days, my assistants and I will tag new developments in
both Connotea and TagTeam. Hence, neither early-switchers nor
late-switchers should miss anything.

Also on September 17, the OATP Twitter feed <twitter.com/oatp> will switch
from the Connotea source to the TagTeam source.

*(2) To participate as a tagger*

If you previously used Connotea to tag new items for OATP, you may continue
to tag from Connotea if you like. Or you may switch to a different tagging
platform, such as Delicious or CiteULike. You may switch to any tagging
platform that generates RSS or Atom feeds for each tag. Or you may tag
directly from TagTeam. It's your choice, and you may use more than one
platform if you like.

All you have to do is notify us so that OATP can subscribe to the feed of
items you tag for the project. OATP will then braid those items together
with items tagged by others, remove duplicates, merge the tags, and make
the resulting feeds available to project readers.

For details on how to tag for OATP from the tagging platform of your
choice, see the transition handout.
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Transition_to_TagTeam

The development of TagTeam 1.0 focused on architecture, basic functions,
and efficiency, not the elegance of the look and feel. Version 2.0 will add
a slew of new features and include an aesthetic makeover. We're still near
the start of this exciting project.

Review of the basic links:

* Transition to TagTeam, <http://goo.gl/rqz0i>
* What is TagTeam? <bit.ly/tagteam-about>
* TagTeam itself, <tagteam.harvard.edu/>
* OATP itself, <bit.ly/oatrackingproject>

Also see the version of this announcement on my blog at G+.
https://plus.google.com/109377556796183035206/posts/2NdDHncTLvN

     Thanks,
     Peter


Peter Suber
Director, Harvard Open Access Project
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Senior Researcher, SPARC
bit.ly/suber-gplus
_Open Access_, MIT Press, 2012 <bit.ly/oa-book>
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