OATP future

Better tagging

More use of subtopic tags...
- Subtopic tags are used unevenly today. Some approved subtopic tags are used frequently and some are used infrequently.
- Some user-defined subtopic tags are still competing with others to become the approved project tag for that niche.

More tag convergence, including more filters to convert deprecated tags to equivalent approved tags...

More prospective tagging (of new developments)...
- More people participating...
- More people specifically looking for new developments in certain fields, countries, or languages...

More retroactive tagging (of older developments)...
- More sporadic retroactive tagging, as taggers encounter relevant older items...
- More systematic efforts to make given tags retroactively comprehensive...

We're working toward two sorts of integration with the Open Access Directory:
- Retroactively tagging OAD resources with relevant OATP tags
- Prospectively adding newly tagged OATP items to relevant OAD lists

We already support boolean searching of all the tag records. One day we hope to add boolean searching of the pages tagged by project tags.

Scan the list of improvements we have in mind (above), and consider some of the specific jobs (below). If you're interested in helping out with any of them, please contact Peter Suber.

Making new project mashups
- We need to give bloggers and webmasters more widget choices for displaying the latest items in the project feeds. We need widgets that webmasters can adapt to suit their blogs, using the titles, fonts, and color schemes of their choice.
Retroactive tagging
- We need to make our consensus tags as retroactively comprehensive as possible. If you're doing a research project on an OA-related topic (for example, OA journals in Brazil), then as you find relevant items, tag them with all relevant project tags, e.g. oa.journals, oa.gold, oa.brazil, oa.south_america, oa.portuguese and so on. Just remember to omit oa.new for items more than six months old.