[houshuang]

For someone who has been working on OA and scholarly publications for a few years, it's a bit tricky to enter these kinds of debates. On the one hand, I want to respect Aaron's legacy, and am very touched by the spontaneous and organized moves to honor him. On the other hand, I am very interested in these issues, and love discussing them, seeing how we can do things better.

For smogzer, there is some interesting research on how knowledge from the research literature can be better represented. For example using concept mapping, see this great paper by Simon Buckingham-Shum (who has many others): http://oro.open.ac.uk/6463/1/kmi-04-28.pdf. Anita de Waard has given many presentations on semantic and executable papers, for example http://www.slideshare.net/anitawaard/executing-the-research-....