[Terrapreta] Publication list by topics

[Tom Miles]

Chris,

I've been hoping that a graduate student skilled in research would develop a
terra preta bibliography that we can upload to the TP website. The database
is in Endnote which is a handy tool. It takes someone willing to
periodically spend several days researching and who has access to and
familiarity with databases and the field. Citations can be tagged with
topics which can be used for searching and sorting. I spent several days
developing the 50 or so sources (from several hundred) that are on the
website. We haven't done much beyond that for lack of time. There are other
features wehaven't used for the same reasons. If anyone is willing to
continue to develop and maintain the database we would be please to upload
it.  

Kind regards,

Tom


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of chris braun
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 11:56 PM
To: mark at ludlow.com
Cc: Terrapreta Preta
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Publication list by topics

Hi,

Thanks for your reply but this is not exactly the point. I know more  
or less where I can find references about biochar publications, and  
also that full text is usually not free. But what I am looking for is  
kind of an index such as the one at
http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/biblio 
  but where documents are classified by topics. I agree that Wikipedia  
does that but in an "Indirect" way, i.e. you have to read all the text  
to find the info you are looking for and then follow the corresponding  
references, if provided (and you are still not sure it's a reliable  
scientific publi). Very unpractical and time-comsuming....

Sincerely yours,
Chris


On Jun 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Mark Ludlow wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Are you an academic with university library privileges? If not,  
> expect to
> pay $30 for every bit of arcana lodged in Springer-Verlag, Elsevier,
> professional society publications or other worthwhile sources; or be  
> content
> with the pap on Wikipedia and the rest of the public domain; or...be  
> happy
> to read the same thin gruel, regurgitated time-and-again, by so=called
> "science journalists".
>
> With biochar, you will find that you get to the bottom very rapidly  
> with a
> deep search. There's a paucity of published authors who are not  
> ideologues
> and the true believers tend to recycle the same stuff, over and  
> over. I have
> an interest in char microstructure as related to functionality. The  
> List has
> raced ahead to Big Ideas like saving the planet. If anything comes  
> of all of
> this, it will be despite this religiosity, not because of it.
>
> Forgive me my cynicism, but there's almost none of this fervor that
> resembles science.
>
> Best regards,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
> [mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of chris  
> braun
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:39 PM
> To: Terrapreta Preta
> Subject: [Terrapreta] Publication list by topics
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know if there exists a list of all relevant scientific
> publications about biochar, but classified by topics (e.g. the ones
> about chemical properties of terrapreta, about carbon persistence in
> soils, etc.) ?
>
> This is unfortunately not an ordering criteria on the biblio page of
> the terrapreta list ! (year / title / type / author)
> http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/biblio
>
> Thanks a lot for your help !
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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