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

Mon Nov 30 23:19:25 UTC 2009

On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:

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> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Jonathan Gray wrote:
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>> I currently have several ideas for projects for which I want to  
>> create
>> large, collaboratively maintained online bibliographies (or
>> bibliographic indexes/databases)...
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>> I wonder if anyone has any ideas for any (open source) tools which
>> might be good for this? Or where I could ask?
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> 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.
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> ..

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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