Here is a summary of some upgrades we are planning for the near future. Please let us know what you think by replying to this message.
Embedding of PhilPapers lists and
categories
A system to allow “my works” and
other PhilPapers lists (including category listings) to be embedded
on third-party pages. The main anticipated use would for individuals
to embed “my works” on their personal page or departmental page. This could make it a lot easier for non-tech-savvy people to keep a list of online papers up to date.
Events module
We feel that there is a need for a
event announcement service. Conference, talks, calls for papers, etc
would be associated with PhilPapers Areas and could be monitored in a
variety of way (on the site, via RSS, or by email). Monitoring could
be done based on topic and/or geographic area.
Interest groups
Interest groups would be
membership-based discussion forums with additional facilities, e.g.
sharing of draft papers between members. Reading the posts in and
submitting to an interest groups' forums could be limited to members
or open to the public, at the choice of the administrator. Membership would by invitation of the group's
administrators and/or current members. Groups would also have a
shared bibliography.
Improved search facilities
We plan to improve the search
facilities in a number of ways. We will index the full text of
articles wherever possible. We will also implement a more powerful
yet simpler search engine with such features as automated stemming,
synonym conflation, and spell-checking. (We plan to use the Sphinx
MySQL Engine, for those of you who know about it.)
Annotations
We plan to allow users to attach short
texts to PhilPapers entries
and provide an interface for searching
and organizing these texts and their associated entries.
Annotations
will be private.
The position review project
This will be a poll of philosophers' positions. See this thread for more information.