The PIUG wiki, its discussion forums and its PIUG Blog are now closed. The content remains for archival purposes only.
The PIUG-DF has been replaced by the PIUG Public Discussion Forum (PIUG-PF) on the PIUG website. The PIUG-PF is for discussion items and blog-type information.
- Free Signup for the PIUG wiki to contribute and collaborate with the world's patent experts.
- Join PIUG to take advantage of member benefits, including access to much members-only content on the PIUG wiki and website: PIUG Membership Directory; previous Annual, Biotech, and Northeast Conference Proceedings; PIUG Newsletter and Newsletter Archive Access; and PIUG Salary Surveys.
- Ongoing professional training made available at PIUG conferences and sponsored workshops.
- Use the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF) to discuss developments in patent information and other matters with the patent community.
- Post on the PIUG blog to share press release-type information and simple announcements or news items.
- Use forums: Job Postings, Situations Wanted, Ask PIUG Leadership, Electronic Communications Committee, and Wiki Administration.
- Contribute to and learn from knowledge, patent resource, and patent information meetings, conferences, and seminars pages and other community pages throughout the PIUG wiki.
- Maintain your user information, upload photo and update user profile.
- Join PIUG committees, task forces, working groups and teams.
- Watch the whole PIUG Space via the Eye "Watch this Space" icon on the PIUG Space page above after login to receive full-content email notifications for all new PIUG-DF topics and comments as well as new and edited blog posts, other informative wiki pages and comments on them. All users receive summary "Daily Updates" with links to all new and edited content by default, although this is a setting users may change.
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Do not use the PIUG wiki to post insulting, profane, pejorative, derogatory, defamatory, abusive or unprofessional content. Violation will result in removal of the offensive content and your username being disabled.
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Recent PIUG-DF Posts
PIUG Wiki Access and Member Benefits
View-only access to the public PIUG wiki space is available to all without registration or login.
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- Post topics, replies and comments
- Add and edit pages
- Add and edit news items
- Watch pages to get email messages providing new or changed content
- Create RSS feeds
- Create personal favorites
- Access functions available to PIUG members (described below)
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Some content and functions are reserved for current PIUG members.
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Granting access to the members-only content of the PIUG wiki is a manual process. Contact the PIUG Wikimaster (wikimaster @ piug.org) if you have paid current PIUG membership fees and still need access to PIUG Members-Only Resources. Members may view and update their PIUG Member Profile via the PIUG Member Benefits page.
PIUG Member Benefits include these PIUG wiki operations:
- Access members-only content including proceedings for the PIUG Annual (May), PIUG Boston Biotech (February), and PIUG Northeast (October) Conferences and PIUG salary surveys.
- Use generic PIUG wiki login usernames for posting on the PIUG Discussion Forum (PIUG-DF): passwords, details and guidelines are available on a members-only page.
- Create a Personal Space.
- Edit access to training pages.
- Add and edit space bookmarks.
- Attach documents to wiki pages.
Other PIUG Member Benefits are listed below:
Discounts
- Reduced registration fees for PIUG conferences: PIUG Annual Conference (May), PIUG Boston Biotech Conference (February) and PIUG Northeast Conference (October). The savings by attending these events more than pays for your annual membership fee!
- Reduced subscription rates such as for World Patent Information and Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst journals.
Information
- PIUG Membership Directory (members-only on the PIUG website).
- PIUG Newsletter and Newsletter Archive Access. (The cover page of the most recent issue is available to all.)
- Other survey data related to patent information, e.g. patent analytic practices.
- Access to the PIUG LinkedIn group.
- Ongoing professional training made available at PIUG conferences and sponsored workshops.
Use of PIUG Name and Logo
No one may use the PIUG name or logo for any promotional or commercial purpose or any other purpose without the prior written consent of the PIUG Board of Directors.
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Guidelines for Commercial Participation
Commercial vendors and participants should follow the Guidelines for Commercial Participation in the wiki, news section, and discussion forums.
PIUG Antitrust Policy
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4 Comments
Cynthia B. Yang
Hi, Tom.
Thanks for initiating this PIUG wiki. It looks like a very good start!
I am testing the functionality of adding a comment here to see where it will show up. It seems that if comments sent by individuals are displayed on the same pages as these links to the knowledge databases, they may "clutter" the resources. I would prefer that the comments are sent and stored separately from the "official" pages of the wiki where the actual "knowledge gold nuggets" are stored.
Thanks.
Cynthia
Admin - Tom Wolff
Cynthia:
The issue is that we generally don't have "official" pages in the wiki that we would restrict either for writing or addition comments. Perhaps the front pages of each wikispace and a few others would be managed only by the administrators. However, to do that to very many pages would run counter to the community nature of the wiki which encourages everyone to contribute. In general, PIUG Wiki registrants would have the choice of directly editing the content of the page via the Edit function at the top or adding a comment as you did. Of course, administrators can delete or edit contributions; Wikipedia managers/moderators/administrators do that all the time. I think you should consider the main PIUG website as our official pages and the wiki as our community collaboration medium.
Tom
Rex Yeap (Dr.)
PDF: http://www.piug.org/resources/documents/PIUG_Wiki_paper_by_TEWolff_in_World_Patent_Information_magazine_2010.pdf
Rex Yeap (Dr.)
Wolff, T.E. (2009). The PIUG Wiki: Communication and Collaboration Par Excellence. Searcher. The Magazine for Database Professionals, 17, no. 8, pp. 12-19, 51-53.
PDF: http://www.wolffinfo.com/docs/PIUG_Wiki_paper_by_TEWolff_in_Searcher_magazine_Sep-2009.pdf