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

Wed Dec 2 19:40:42 UTC 2009

Thanks for the detail Puneet! You've convinced me, I'll definitely
give Mendeley a try. I'll also pop them a quick email asking whether
they've considered allowing users to explicitly define legal status of
bibliographic data.

Jonathan

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punkish at eidesis.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
>> 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,
>
> Exports to Endnote XML, RIS, and BibTex.
>
>> and do you know how easy it would be to
>> collaboratively edit bibliographies?
>
> You create a shared biblio, and invite other Mendeley users. Say, you and I
> are collaborating on a project, such as co-authoring a paper, and we have
> divvied up our work. You invite me to your shared biblio, and I join it. As
> I add stuff to the shared collection, it shows up on your Mendeley Desktop,
> and vice versa.
>
> Of course, our Mendeley Desktops sync with our respective web accounts as
> well, so all collections are accessible from anywhere.
>
> It really is very simple.
>
>> Also I would really want to
>> specific that the bibliographic data I contributed was open (ideally
>> in the public domain)...
>
> You can make a biblio data a public collection, and even sync the
> attachments (the actual PDFs of the papers/articles) so they reside on your
> Mendeley web account, accessible by everyone.
>
> Puneet.
>
>
>
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Jonathan Gray

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