Wow. well, it’s been a while since I posted, and now we are truly heading into the new year. (not to self, must update blog more often). I got an interesting question today from someone new to connotea:
“Are Connotea accounts ever pruned for inactivity? I tried to register
with the username sciurus but found that it was taken. Visiting
http://www.connotea.org/user/sciurus suggests that this account is
unused and perhaps was intended as a joke (sciurus is the latin for
squirrel).?”
We hadn’t thought about this before, but looking at this library, although it only contains only one bookmarks, and it is about squirrels, it does have tags and in some sense it enriches the doi namespace, so even though this is not an active account it adds in some way to the wharf weave of meta-data surrounding academic content. I guess the implication is that although this person is not making an active contribution, the trail that they have already left has some value as an atom of the whole. It also indicates that pruning accounts can’t just be based on activity or volume, and is probably beyond our curatorial capacity to do.
No no no no no! With apologies to sciurus_2 or sciurus_2008 or whoever you are now :-).
Seriously though, I created an account as part of work I did for a non-profit group (see link on bottom of this page), and I don’t expect them to be doing frequent updating, if at all, yet this will be a highly valuable resource to some of the members.
Whoops, didn’t realize this blog had a special markup language. “this page” in the comment above should be linked to this page