[okfn-discuss] Tools for collaboratively developing online bibliographic indexes

Tue Dec 1 00:01:17 UTC 2009

Finn, Puneet: I've known about Mendeley for a while (via Victor
Henning) but have yet to investigate. Puneet - does it have good
export functions, and do you know how easy it would be to
collaboratively edit bibliographies? Also I would really want to
specific that the bibliographic data I contributed was open (ideally
in the public domain)...

Finn: I've also thought about using Semantic Media Wiki a little bit.
I've also had discussions with Rufus about using the software behind
publicdomainworks.net. My inclination is to continue to investigate
out-of-the-box bibliographic software first, and to start to
experiment if I can't find a good fit!

Also, I had a look at your excellent Brede Wiki, and was about to add
it to CKAN, before I realised that someone beat me to it!

  http://ckan.net/package/bredewiki

Have you seen our science working group?

  http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/science

Best wishes,

Jonathan

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>
>>> I currently have several ideas for projects for which I want to create
>>> large, collaboratively maintained online bibliographies (or
>>> bibliographic indexes/databases)...
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone has any ideas for any (open source) tools which
>>> might be good for this? Or where I could ask?
>>
>> Mendeley is an online bibliography database where bibliographies from
>> individual users can be shared. I am not all too family with it, but I think
>> it would be difficult/impossible to organize, e.g., by country of author.
>>
>> ..
>
> I have started using Mendeley, and so far I like it very much. There is much
> it can't do, but what it can do, it does very well, in particular, working
> with shared bibliographies.
>
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/punkish-/
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