{"id":248,"date":"2005-08-24T23:24:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T03:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=248"},"modified":"2005-09-27T10:00:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-27T14:00:53","slug":"arxiv-trackbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"arXiv Trackbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

As discussed here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, the arXiv is now putting on each abstract page a link to trackbacks from weblogs which contain a link to the paper in question. This is an interesting mechanism for integrating the discussion of various papers on weblogs with the arXiv site.<\/p>\n

I remember more than ten years ago Paul Ginsparg talking about the idea of setting up a mechanism for having commentary on papers on the arXiv, but this idea seems to have not gotten off the ground at the time. Part of the idea was that the author of the paper would be able to delete any posted commentary he or she didn’t like. When asked about whether this would stop people from being able to use the commentary section to point out that a paper was wrong, Ginsparg noted that if there was no commentary on a specific paper, did you really care whether it was because the author had deleted the comments, or because no one thought the paper was worth commenting on?<\/p>\n

My latest posting from earlier this evening contained a couple links to arXiv papers (I didn’t know about this trackback business at the time). Jacques Distler explains that one’s weblog has to be on a list of “serious physicist-bloggers” in order for one’s trackbacks to appear. So far mine haven’t, so I guess I’m not a “serious physicist-blogger” by the standards of Jacques (or whoever is managing this thing).<\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: The trackbacks are there now, as pointed out by Sean Carroll. Not sure when this happened, partly because there seems to be a bug in their system. The abstract page for the Mickelsson paper I linked to counts only one trackback, when there really are two (the other, from Urs Schreiber was there yesterday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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