VitaminDWiki can support the idea-to-publish lifecycle
This page attempts to show one aspect of how VitaminDWiki can support vitamin D information sharing
Idea => outline => get co-authors/group => write => publish => review/appraisal => append update/revision (optional)
- Fast
- Approximately 1 month instead of 10 months.
- Free
- Not have to justify cost of publishing (> $1,000) an idea to their boss, spouse . . .
- Anyone can publish
- Person does not have to have been “an author”, and have gotten approval
- GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, lay people can all ‘publish’ on this wikipedia-like service
- The publication can be of any size
- From just a paragraph up to a book – each authors can work on a different chapter concurrently.
- Can ‘publish’ the information in multiple locations and formats
- VitaminDWiki, Conference, Google Scholar, Amazon, and even standard journals (where permitted)
- Can incorporate a wide variety of media
- Audio, video, color, animation,
- Can attach data which others can use
- Spreadsheets, databases – example through Google Docs
- Updates can also be attached to the ‘published’ version
Additional details
Participants can elect to be informed of changes of anything in VitaminDWiki by e-mail or RSS
Share/Publish in any language
- Read in any language
- Supports multiple authors
- Only one person can edit a section at a time
- Might want to break a long document (like a book) into sections
- People could perhaps see other groups vitamin D ideas
- Avoid duplication and perhaps join with existing efforts
Individuals are invited to join a private group in VitaminDWiki
Vitamin D information packs could be made – somewhat like WikiPedia
- for lay public, medical professionals, insurance companies, employers,
- Variety of groups
- Researchers, Hospitals, Medical Doctors, Nurses, Senior home staff, pharmacists,
- Individuals with diseases/medical conditions that benefit from Vitamin D
- Can re-purpose the information
- Conferences, Video, poster sessions, press releases, blog post,
- Each group can be as stealthy or as visible as they wish
- Each Web page, Forum, Blog Post, comment etc can be public or private (stealthy)
Hospitals/HMO can use it to share ideas, pamphlets, experiences, etc
Additional capabilities of the TikiWiki host software
- Roll-back to previous versions if case of error
- Users can vote on the quality/usefulness of any item (web page, forum, comment, blog post, etc.)
- Item tags can be created by individuals and optionally shared
- Software is is easy to use
- What You See if What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor should be used for most simple pages.
Possible problems
- No mechanism (yet) for anonymous peer review.
- Might try peer praise after publication instead of peer review before publication
- If there is lots of use, will have to use a more expensive/powerful server
- Current system can probably serve 100 viewers and 10 authors concurrently.
- Cost of editorial/IT support – so far all done by Henry Lahore
- Henry does not scale as well as the server.