[Bibjson-dev] BibJSON Goals

[Mark MacGillivray]

Couple of things to point out:

when converting from BibJSON -> BibTex -> BibJSON as Peter mentioned,
you would not actually get vaild BibTex out - e.g. there would be
things in there that are not BibTex. Because we are embedding metadata
in the first object of the list, and that metadata will include things
we introduce in BibJSON such as "namespaces", it would not strictly be
BibTex. We could drop this metadata in a conversion to BibTex, but of
course then we could not convert back into BibJSON without losing
content. Just something to keep in mind when describing conversions
from one type to another like this.

The word add-on sounds nice - if it is already there then should be a
good idea to grab metadata from it.

Not sure what the web service part was actually referring to but yes
as Sam says using jQuery allows us to build some nice tools for people
to pass metadata into our bibsoup. This is why I am interested in
building the BibServer front end in javascript, even if it secondary
to python running a front end.

Mark




On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Followup...
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>> So...
>> * add-in for Word (no thanks, been there)
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> Sam tells me there is a useful BibXML functionality in Word2007. It's not
> (yet?) very popular. An attraction is that there is a single central file
> for a collectiosn of documents. Tipping this into a converter would creat a
> lot of community Bibsoup.
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>> * web service (could be a useful way of growing the community)
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> Sam thinks this is straightforward using JQuery and very easily
> redistributable.
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>> P.
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>> Peter Murray-Rust
>> Reader in Molecular Informatics
>> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
>> University of Cambridge
>> CB2 1EW, UK
>> +44-1223-763069
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> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
>