Suggestion - Total Impact as a OpenSocial Gadget

[Vanderfeesten, Maurice]

Dear Total-Impact,

 

Well this is so cool, It should be made as an Open Social Gadget.

 

In the Netherlands SURF works with the universities together on a prototype portal based on  the OpenSocial framework. See: https://portal.surfconext.nl

How hard would it be to port your app to OpenSocial. It increases the reuse on many other  platforms. The SURFconext architecture will play a role in the deployment of cross platform communications and cloud services on many Dutch universities. My guess: Researchers and departments would love to add this type of Gadget on their portal environment.

 

I am lacking the development skills to make this a full-fledged OpenSocial Gadget, but I have made an iframe Gadget of Total Impact for demonstration purposes. See screenshot. (Here is the XML http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1120383/dev/final/altmetrics-totalimpact.xml )

 

I was wondering I you guys could help out?

 

Kind regards,

Maurice

 

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[Heather Piwowar]

Hi Maurice, 

Neat!  Thanks for contacting us about OpenSocial.  The screen shot demo is really cool :)  

We'd be happy help support you doing a real integration (unfortunately we don't have development resources to do the port ourselves at this point).  One thing that might make it easier is the api we are now working on.  It makes it simple to display metrics for IDs through a simple URL.  For example:

http://total-impact.org/api/v1/items/18428094,10.1534%252Fgenetics.109.103010

We're planning an api to gather IDs from Mendeley profiles etc soon too.

total-Impact is still in very early development: please do give us feedback on how we can best support integrations like this!

Sincerely, 

Heather

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Heather Piwowar

DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad

  studying research data sharing and reuse
  remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
http://researchremix.org
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[Heather Piwowar]

Hi all, 

Since this is the third unsolicited request we've received to port TI to a platform gadget (others: Utopia, sciVerse) I've added a "port to gadgets" section to the core roadmap doc.

Heather