User talk:Yaron Koren

Your homepage is 404? *grin*

I'm about to register.

ben (by way of intro please see "Participatory Deliberation")

My homepage is back up, thankfully. Welcome to the site; your experience with semantic mapping of argumentation could prove quite helpful. Yaron Koren 08:47, 9 March 2007 (EST)

editorial boards as authors

Where an author is a newspaper's editorial board, it's obvious to human readers that it has a very close relation with the source which is the newspaper itself. But there's no way to express this on DDB at present. Might there be? Dsp13 20:34, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for your very valuable contributions up till now. Yes, I think that's a good idea. There are two ways to do it: either make it a relation for sources ("Has editorial board") or authors ("Is editorial board of"). Having it for sources might be easier, since it could be made a standard part of the source template; most sources will have one. What do you think? Yaron Koren 13:16, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

Not sure - I don't have a clear enough sense about how DDB works to judge! On the one hand, as you say, most sources have editorial boards, so it wouldn't seem a redundant part there; on the other hand, it would be nice if the relation to the source appeared on an author page when the author was an editorial board. (Of course, the source will be repeated in the list of items below, so a human user could always click on it that way.)

I've been concentrating btw on providing pages for sources & authors who have articles about them on Wikipedia. My motivation was thinking of the Wikipedia pages as a sort of authority file, a la [1]. The Wikipedia links for sources and authors seem slightly different in kind, more exact in their correspondence, to those for topics (where they need not be one-to-one, since Wikipedia sometimes divides up topics differently). 62.253.128.11 16:17, 20 March 2007 (EDT)